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composition2002

Lonesome Tears

Disciplines:
alternative rock
rock music/folk rock

Summary

A 2002 song from Beck's 'Sea Change' album that uses a Shepard tone to create perpetual falling to accompany unresolved grief.

Core Contribution

Demonstrates the Shepard tone's application in contemporary heartbreak music.

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

Alternative rock

Allied Works

Sea Change A Last Straw

Contemporaries & Peers

Sea Change

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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