rock and roll Flashcards

(60 cards)

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progressive pop

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60s with Beach Boys, Zappa, Beatles, Moody Blues’ and The Who

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concept album

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hold a larger purpose

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conceptual continuity

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everything done was apart of one work

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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

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helped solidify the idea of rock music as art

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recording studio as instrument

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captured sound in real time to sound natural

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use of classical instrumentation

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represents dawn, daytime, and dusk

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tommy

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first musical work to be billed overly as a rock opera

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rock opera

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the who

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use of classical forms

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the who

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progressive rock

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long, complex songs, unusual time signatures, unusual instruments or ways of using them, and use of improvisation; British

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robert Fripp

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guitar and leader of King Crimson

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Greg Lake

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vocal, bass of King Crimson

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stylistic eclecticism

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multiple styles in one song

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mellotron

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tape playback heads underneath each key enable the playing of pre-recorded sounds. 8 seconds and sounds like an own orchestra

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keyboard-based power trio

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band with keyboards, drums and bass

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Bela Bartok

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Allegro Barbaro; folk elements; Emerson Lake and Palmer

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Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Copland, Ginastera

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ELP recorded works by these classical composers

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moog synthesizer

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large board played by piano keys that sounds like a very distorted electric guitar

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Ian Anderson

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vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, songs for Jethro Tull

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Works of symphonic duration

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one song spread across both sides of a single LP

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Rick Wakeman

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played new sounds and technologies for Yes

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Peter Gabriel

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vocals and flute for Genesis

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Phil Collins

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Drummer for Genesis

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Syd Barrett

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vocals, guitar, songs for Pink Floyd

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Roger Waters
bassist of Pink Floyd
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David Gilmour
replacement for Syd Barrett
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Dark side of the moon
#1 on billboard charts for 741 weeks; 1973-1988
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Frank Zappa/ The Mother of Invention
conceptual continuity
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Ensemble Modern
"G-Spot Tornado" was performed by them
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Don Van Vliet
Captain Beefheart
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The Velvet Underground
Nico's band
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John Cale
Frozen Warnings was produced and arranged by John, ex member of The Velvet Underground
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In-studio composition
going into the recording studio with no idea of what to do and experiments
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Ambient music
each time one listens to a song it is unique each time because of background noises
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Vocoder
a synthesizer of sorts with a microphone built into it and takes the keys being played marry into microphone and gives a robotic sound; sounds like 3 people singing
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Minimalism
basic notes
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Krautrock
applied to German music
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Klaus Dinger, Michael Rother
NEU! band members after splitting Kraftwerk
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Motorik beat
steady beat; boom boom crack
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Sequencer
remember the sounds that are played; in Tangerine Dream
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Mick Ronson
guitarist of David Bowie
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Tony Defries
manager of David Bowie
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Berlin Trilogy – Low, “Heroes,” Lodger
made with Brian Eno, Trilogy saw Bowie experiment with elements of electronic and ambient
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Marc Bolan
vocals, guitar, songs of T-Rex
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"All the Young Dudes" David Bowie
written and produced by David Bowie to try and keep Mott the Hoopie stay together
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Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno
Roxy Music members; Bryan Ferry- vocals, songs; Brian Eno- synthesizer and treatments
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Freddie Mercury
Vocals, keyboards
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The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Hollies
David Crosby= Byrds; Stephen Stills= Buffalo Springfied; Graham Nash= The Hollies
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Peter Asher
James Taylor's first album producer; A&R head for The Beatles newly formed label Apple Record
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Apple Records
James Taylor album was released by Apple Record in late 60s; got signed to them
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Harvest
#1 on billboards and best selling album of 1972
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Gerry Goffin
husband of Carole King that she wrote with
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Tapestry
#1 on billboard and held record for most weeks by female solo artists; Carole King
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Bernie Taupin
Elton John's lyricist
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Paul Simon- Jamaica, South Africa, Brazil
recorded with Jimmy Cliff's backing group, features music and musicians of South Africa and Brazil
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Bitches Brew
Miles Davis' first gold record
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John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock
band members for Miles Davis, Electric guitar, drums, organ
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Polyrhythm
Mahavishnu Orchestra; 2 different beats played at the same time
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Unusual time signatures
Mahavishnu
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