Curiously enough, when I read the title of this post, I expected an analysis of the musical structure of the Beatles' songs, which Leonard Berstein once said reminded him of Baroque music. However that might be, for me the definitive moment in the evolution of the Beatles' music was "Rubber Soul," and in particular "Norwegian Wood," whose tonality seemed to me to resemble a Lydian mode (I have never seen the score). In any case, the tonality of that song, immediately striking to all listeners, was unlike anything that preceded it in rock 'n' roll music, although it must be said that Brian Wilson's compositions for the Beach Boys were also often quite remarkable.