It was 1964 and the times were a changin and Florence was feeling a bit like a dung beetle.
Florence in her natural manner was entranced with another novel, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. The story is about a salesman (people we may distrust or a stranger, out of place) who wakes up and discovers that he's been transformed into a giant insect. Florence feels an affinity to Gregor in that she feels like somewhat of an insect herself. Not so much a boll weevil, but more of a scarab, an insect that feels out of place, estranged and alienated.
It's important to tie this back into the Beatles. Perhaps her mother or the church feels that their name is appropriate. They are a menace, just like the boll weevil.
From John Eaton: "There's no market for classical music." The Mugwumps, The Mammas and the Pappas.
From John Eaton about the Beatles: "We know when something is new when we place it in the context of something much older."
The ancient mode or scale, the melodic minor. The folk origins of that are so pure. It doesn't need any harmony. The folk mode. The people mode. The human mode. The social mode. Plays a song similar to Yesterday, called Yesterdays by Jerome Kerns. John plays it in D minor, but Jerome moves right out of the key.
More on Florence and Kafka. She will end up working at the water authority in Lubbock, in the basement of the old federal building on Broadway. She will meet a woman (or a man) there whose last name will be Henry Russo (like Rousseau). He loves to make music, but he's always borrowing it from someone else. It's almost as if he's tracing it. His songs don't really seem to have roots or perspective. He has songs about Football, the Jungle (named after the paintings). His wife is dead and his kids all have families of their own. He merely pushes paper and ink (stamps) all day long. And when he goes home he practices his music. They let him play in the clubs because he saved the owners life once (need elaboration), but he never really knows who to put him with. It's very painful to watch him on stage. He is often laughed at. Until one day when Buddy Holly came to sit in the club, he was noticed. He had a brief moment of fame. And then he died. That was when Florence decided to buy a one-way ticket. She will be at the travel agent and have a flash back about Henry. His life will make her want to live hers more truly and not die forgotten. (How do I link this back to musical therapy? To symbiosis?)
Yesterday and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes should occur around the similar time period in Florence's life.
Beatle's Norwegian Wood is a good parallel to Florence and Royce's evening's together as they discussed life after the movies.
Mixolydian mode, works for the Beatles is the dominant scale of pop music in the 1960's. Traditional pop rarely uses the pentatonic scale. Singin in the rain is one example, but is a 1920's song (not 1960's).
Pentatonic sounds like a religion. Take Me Home, Country Roads (1971) is a classic example.