Paul Morelli, DMA
  • Bio
  • Marching shows
  • Writing services
    • What I Offer
    • Examples
    • Why choose PM?
    • Testimonials
  • Performance
    • Performing Experience
    • Recordings
    • Testimonials
  • Essays
    • Writing >
      • Writing for the Trumpet
      • Writing for the Saxophone
      • Writing for the Trombone
      • Writing for the Clarinet
      • Writing for the Flute
    • Playing/teaching >
      • Ensemble Skills
    • Notes on Chicago Transit Authority >
      • Introduction
      • Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
      • Beginnings
      • Questions 67 & 68
      • Listen
      • Poem 58
      • Free Form Guitar
      • South California Purples
      • I'm a Man
      • Someday
      • Liberation
      • Chicago Transit Authority as a whole
  • Contact
  • Album Reviews
    • The Association: Stonehenge
    • Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
    • The Beatles: The White Album
    • Blood Sweat & Tears: Child Is Father to the Man
    • Blood Sweat & Tears
    • Chase
    • Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority
    • Genesis: Foxtrot
    • IQ: Subterranea
    • Kayak: Royal Bed Bouncer
    • Lighthouse
    • Lighthouse: Suite Feeling
    • Moraz, Patrick: i
    • Morse, Neal: Testimony
    • Pepe Deluxe: Queen of the Wave
    • Spock's Beard: Snow
    • Stevens, Sufjan: Illinois
    • Yes: Fragile
  • Bio
  • Marching shows
  • Writing services
    • What I Offer
    • Examples
    • Why choose PM?
    • Testimonials
  • Performance
    • Performing Experience
    • Recordings
    • Testimonials
  • Essays
    • Writing >
      • Writing for the Trumpet
      • Writing for the Saxophone
      • Writing for the Trombone
      • Writing for the Clarinet
      • Writing for the Flute
    • Playing/teaching >
      • Ensemble Skills
    • Notes on Chicago Transit Authority >
      • Introduction
      • Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
      • Beginnings
      • Questions 67 & 68
      • Listen
      • Poem 58
      • Free Form Guitar
      • South California Purples
      • I'm a Man
      • Someday
      • Liberation
      • Chicago Transit Authority as a whole
  • Contact
  • Album Reviews
    • The Association: Stonehenge
    • Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
    • The Beatles: The White Album
    • Blood Sweat & Tears: Child Is Father to the Man
    • Blood Sweat & Tears
    • Chase
    • Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority
    • Genesis: Foxtrot
    • IQ: Subterranea
    • Kayak: Royal Bed Bouncer
    • Lighthouse
    • Lighthouse: Suite Feeling
    • Moraz, Patrick: i
    • Morse, Neal: Testimony
    • Pepe Deluxe: Queen of the Wave
    • Spock's Beard: Snow
    • Stevens, Sufjan: Illinois
    • Yes: Fragile

 

Notes on Chicago Transit Authority

     Shamelessly borrowing the general format of Alan W. Polock's wonderful, detailed analysis of every Beatles song, I present a similar project for the early albums of Chicago, starting with, of course, their magnificent debut album.
     Is anyone reading my analyses and enjoying them? I'd love to know! Head to the Contact page and say hello! And feel free to clue me in to anything important that I missed. If I think it's worth adding, I will, with your permission, add it in and give you credit.

The album, analyzed first track by track, then discussed as a whole:
Introduction
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Beginnings

Questions 67 & 68
Listen
Poem 58

Free Form Guitar
South California Purples
I'm a Man

Someday
​Liberation

​Chicago Transit Authority as a whole
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