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Rock and Rhapsodies
The Music of Queen
Taschenbuch von Nick Braae
Sprache: Englisch

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What, exactly, gave Queen's songs their magical and distinct musical identity? Rock and Rhapsodies answers this question through a fascinating musicological study of the band's output.
What, exactly, gave Queen's songs their magical and distinct musical identity? Rock and Rhapsodies answers this question through a fascinating musicological study of the band's output.
Über den Autor
Nick Braae is Principal Academic Staff Member in Music and Performing Arts at Waikato Institute of Technology in Hamilton, New Zealand. He has published widely on the music of Queen, New Zealand popular music, and conceptual understandings of style in popular music. He has taught music history, composition, performance, and musical theatre performance studies at Wintec since 2016. Outside of teaching, he works regularly as a session keyboardist, musical director, composer, and arranger.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Notes on Musical Examples

  • Acknowledgements

  • List of Tables and Figures

  • 1. Introduction

  • The Book

  • The Study of Queen

  • Issues of Style

  • 2. Queen's Idiolect: A Primer

  • Harmonic Structure and Gestures

  • Textural Foundations and the Sound-Box

  • Arrangement and Performance Gestures

  • Sounds Like Queen, and other Conclusions

  • 3. Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry: Queen's Structural Archetypes

  • Introduction and Definitions

  • Conventional Forms

  • Variations on Conventional Forms

  • Episodic Songs

  • Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry

  • 4. Temporal Processes in Queen's Large-Scale Songs

  • Time and Popular Song

  • Phrase and Intra-Sectional Linearity

  • Sectional Temporality

  • Closure

  • Queen's Temporal Processes and Exceptions

  • 5. Brian May and Roger Taylor

  • Analyzing the Voice

  • The Voices of Brian May and Roger Taylor

  • May, Taylor, and Rock Authenticity

  • 6. Freddie Mercury

  • The Voices

  • Structural Dynamics

  • Stylistic Incongruities, Queer and Camp Voices, and the "Real" Freddie

  • Mercury, Rock Authenticity, and Interpretation

  • Coda

  • 7. Hard Rock, Glam Rock and Progressive Rock in the 1970s

  • Commentary and Conceptual Considerations

  • Queen's "Dominant Voice": The Hard Rock Connection

  • The Glam Rock Connection: Exaggeration, Irony, and Play

  • Progressive Rock, and Interplay

  • 8. The Musical World(s) of Queen

  • A "Unique" Sonic Fingerprint and Pastiche in the 1970s

  • Queen's Sonic Patterns and Stylistic Connections

  • The Musical World(s) of Queen

  • 9. A Day at the Races and the Gestural Unity of Queen

  • Queen in 1976 and the Ideal of Evolution

  • The Notion of Gestural Unity: Idiolect Revisited

  • A Day at the Races

  • The Gestural Unity of Queen

  • 10. Was It All Worth It? Queen in the 1980s

  • A Decade of Changing Fortunes

  • From "Save Me" to "Staying Power"

  • The Rock Ballads Revisited

  • Hard Rock by Numbers

  • Was It All Worth It?

  • 11. Queen's Jubilee: The Late Style of Innuendo

  • Introduction

  • "Innuendo"

  • "The Show Must Go On"

  • A Late Style of Queen

  • 12. Legacy

  • Post-1991

  • Replacing Freddie

  • "No One But You"

  • We Will Rock You

  • The Influence of Queen

  • The End of the Story

  • Bibliography

  • Appendix A

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Musiktheorie & Musiklehre
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780197526743
ISBN-10: 0197526748
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Braae, Nick
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Maße: 168 x 234 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Nick Braae
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,47 kg
Artikel-ID: 119612577
Über den Autor
Nick Braae is Principal Academic Staff Member in Music and Performing Arts at Waikato Institute of Technology in Hamilton, New Zealand. He has published widely on the music of Queen, New Zealand popular music, and conceptual understandings of style in popular music. He has taught music history, composition, performance, and musical theatre performance studies at Wintec since 2016. Outside of teaching, he works regularly as a session keyboardist, musical director, composer, and arranger.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Notes on Musical Examples

  • Acknowledgements

  • List of Tables and Figures

  • 1. Introduction

  • The Book

  • The Study of Queen

  • Issues of Style

  • 2. Queen's Idiolect: A Primer

  • Harmonic Structure and Gestures

  • Textural Foundations and the Sound-Box

  • Arrangement and Performance Gestures

  • Sounds Like Queen, and other Conclusions

  • 3. Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry: Queen's Structural Archetypes

  • Introduction and Definitions

  • Conventional Forms

  • Variations on Conventional Forms

  • Episodic Songs

  • Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry

  • 4. Temporal Processes in Queen's Large-Scale Songs

  • Time and Popular Song

  • Phrase and Intra-Sectional Linearity

  • Sectional Temporality

  • Closure

  • Queen's Temporal Processes and Exceptions

  • 5. Brian May and Roger Taylor

  • Analyzing the Voice

  • The Voices of Brian May and Roger Taylor

  • May, Taylor, and Rock Authenticity

  • 6. Freddie Mercury

  • The Voices

  • Structural Dynamics

  • Stylistic Incongruities, Queer and Camp Voices, and the "Real" Freddie

  • Mercury, Rock Authenticity, and Interpretation

  • Coda

  • 7. Hard Rock, Glam Rock and Progressive Rock in the 1970s

  • Commentary and Conceptual Considerations

  • Queen's "Dominant Voice": The Hard Rock Connection

  • The Glam Rock Connection: Exaggeration, Irony, and Play

  • Progressive Rock, and Interplay

  • 8. The Musical World(s) of Queen

  • A "Unique" Sonic Fingerprint and Pastiche in the 1970s

  • Queen's Sonic Patterns and Stylistic Connections

  • The Musical World(s) of Queen

  • 9. A Day at the Races and the Gestural Unity of Queen

  • Queen in 1976 and the Ideal of Evolution

  • The Notion of Gestural Unity: Idiolect Revisited

  • A Day at the Races

  • The Gestural Unity of Queen

  • 10. Was It All Worth It? Queen in the 1980s

  • A Decade of Changing Fortunes

  • From "Save Me" to "Staying Power"

  • The Rock Ballads Revisited

  • Hard Rock by Numbers

  • Was It All Worth It?

  • 11. Queen's Jubilee: The Late Style of Innuendo

  • Introduction

  • "Innuendo"

  • "The Show Must Go On"

  • A Late Style of Queen

  • 12. Legacy

  • Post-1991

  • Replacing Freddie

  • "No One But You"

  • We Will Rock You

  • The Influence of Queen

  • The End of the Story

  • Bibliography

  • Appendix A

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Musiktheorie & Musiklehre
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780197526743
ISBN-10: 0197526748
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Braae, Nick
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Maße: 168 x 234 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Nick Braae
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,47 kg
Artikel-ID: 119612577
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