THE DOORS

The Doors were an American rock band whose sound was shaped by Jim Morrison’s theatrical voice and Ray Manzarek’s keyboard lines. Their best-known songs include Light My Fire, Break On Through, The End, and Riders on the Storm, while MusicTales also follows deeper cuts such as Peace Frog and Shaman’s Blues.

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14 articles related to THE DOORS:

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  Music Theory

  The Doors songs that use just three primary chords

  The prevalence of the three-chord song structure in Western popular music has, at this point, become emblematic. More...
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  Music Theory

  The Doors songs with Aeolian and harmonic minor modes

  Known since the Baroque era, the homophonic texture remains the most convenient songwriting technique based on the...
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  Music Theory

  Dorian mode in The Doors songs

  The Dorian minor mode is a part of the diatonic system that canonizes the usage of the seven heptatonic scales in...
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  Music Theory

  Peace Frog: the only Doors song featuring Lydian mode

  Peace Frog, released by the Doors on their 1970 album Morrison Hotel, has been met by a near-unanimous approval from...
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  Music Theory

  Mixolydian mode in The Doors songs

  It is no secret that the harmonic structure of a song and its adherence to the canons of musical theory is one of the...
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  Music Theory

  6 songs combining harmonic minor and Aeolian mode

  The polyphonic structure of Western classical music distinguishes it from other musical traditions such as Indian...
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  Music Theory

  7 songs featuring Mixolydian mode

  The dominance of the major and minor modes in Western classical music has been observed for several centuries, and this... 2 comments
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  SONGWRITER

  Shaman's Blues: quintessential The Doors song refined their most controversial album

  Shaman's Blues was written by Jim Morrison for The Soft Parade, The Doors' fourth studio album released in the summer of...
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  SONGWRITER

  Wishful Sinful: atypical harmony of Robby Krieger

  Wishful Sinful is a song written by Robby Krieger for The Soft Parade released in 1969 by The Doors and considered to be...
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  Music Theory

  Mixolydian mode: famous examples in classical and pop music

  In the 17th century, the major and minor scales became the basis for almost all classical music compositions. This... 13 comments
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  Choir

  Gershwin's Summertime: the most recorded song draws inspiration from Ukrainian lullaby and African American spiritual

  Written by the American composer George Gershwin in 1934, Summertime aria is now the most recorded song in the history... 3 comments
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  SONGWRITER

  German roots of the Moon of Alabama

  The Alabama Song first appeared in a collection of five poems published by German playwright Bertolt Brecht in 1927,...
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  ORCHESTRA

  Albinoni's famous Adagio is unusually solemn and offbeat because it wasn't, in fact, written by Tomaso Albinoni

  Adagio in G Minor, attributed to 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, is widely familiar through its often use...
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  Classical Guitar

  Asturias by Isaac Albéniz and its life in The Doors interpretation

  Asturias is a famous work by the Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz. This piece, coming at around six minutes...