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composition1974

A Last Straw

Disciplines:
rock music
music/experimental music

Summary

A song from Robert Wyatt's 1974 album 'Rock Bottom' that features a descending Shepard tone.

Core Contribution

Demonstrates the Shepard tone applied as perpetual falling — a metaphor for Robert Wyatt's experience of descent following his accident.

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

British experimental rock

Allied Works

Rock Bottom

Contemporaries & Peers

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Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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