Musical Examples for

“Lovely Ritmos, Meter Mad”—Irregular Hypermeters, Aesthetic Realism, and the Joyous Artistry of the Beatles

Published in

The International Review of the
Aesthetics and Sociology of Music.

1. Good Golly, Miss Molly

2. Love Me Do

3. Lovely Rita, Meter Maid

3a

3b

3c

4. Eleanor Rigby

4a

4b

4c

5. Do You Know the Way to San Jose

5a

5b

6. Sexy Sadie

7. Yesterday

7a

7b

8. So Far Away

9. Baby You’re a Rich Man

10. Martha My Dear