Royal Oak Posted October 23, 2010 Report Posted October 23, 2010 Been listening to Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" tonight, and have discovered that the starting riff to Norwegian Wood ("I once had a girl" etc) is a note-for-note lift from a recurring motif from this. Is this well-known? Quote
Royal Oak Posted October 23, 2010 Author Report Posted October 23, 2010 Having just googled "Norwegian Wood Manfred", I have answered my own question in the affirmative. Quote
Ted O'Reilly Posted October 23, 2010 Report Posted October 23, 2010 Having just googled "Norwegian Wood Manfred", I have answered my own question in the affirmative. Thieves, those Beatles. Imagine, stealing from Manfred Mann... Quote
RDK Posted October 25, 2010 Report Posted October 25, 2010 That's a relief; I thought this was gonna be another Brett Favre thread. Quote
Brad Posted October 25, 2010 Report Posted October 25, 2010 (edited) I was looking into this and saw some reference on a website saying that is actually drawn from: "the antarã [upper-octave variation] of a well-known gat [fixed composition set to a rhythmic accompaniment] of the late-night rāga Bageshree, in Hindustani classical music." See http://en.academic.r...f/enwiki/162495 Don't ask me what that means Edited October 25, 2010 by Brad Quote
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