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}} "The Dogs of War" is a song by Pink Floyd from their 1987 album, ''A Momentary Lapse of Reason''. It was the third single from the album in the US and Australia. Live versions have an extended intro, an extended middle solo for the saxophone, a guitar and sax duel and a longer outro as compared to the album version. The track was a minor rock radio hit in the US and reached #16 on MTV's Video Countdown in May 1988. "The Dogs of War" describes politicians orchestrating wars, suggesting the major influence behind war is money. ==Composition== Musically, the song follows a twelve-bar blues structure in C minor, only with significantly different chord changes. A standard blues song in C minor would progress as C minor, F minor, C minor, G (major or minor), F minor, and back to C minor. "The Dogs of War", instead, progresses in this way: C minor, E flat minor, C minor, A flat seventh, F minor, and back to C minor. All minor chords include the seventh. Singer David Gilmour often approaches the C minor chord by singing on the diminished fifth, G flat, before descending to the fourth, minor third, and root. This melody is also compatible with the next chord, E flat minor, in which G flat is the minor third. It also appears in the A flat seventh chord, as the dominant seventh. The majority of the song is in a slow 12/8 time. After a bluesy guitar solo, the song switches to a fast 4/4 tempo for the saxophone solo. This is not unlike what happens in "Money", a minor-key blues-based song from ''The Dark Side of the Moon'', in which a saxophone solos over the song's predominant 7/4 tempo before switching to a faster 4/4 tempo for the guitar solo. "The Dogs of War" also imitates "Money" in its ending sequence, with a "call and response" between Gilmour's voice and his guitar.〔Pink Floyd: ''A Momentary Lapse of Reason Songbook'' U.K. ISBN 978-0-7119-1340-0〕〔Pink Floyd: ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, ISBN 0-7119-1028-6 (ISBN 0-8256-1078-8 ))〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Dogs of War (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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