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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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5
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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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18
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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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21
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Rick Wakeman

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played new sounds and technologies for Yes

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22
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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

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bassist of Pink Floyd

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David Gilmour

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replacement for Syd Barrett

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Dark side of the moon

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1 on billboard charts for 741 weeks; 1973-1988

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Frank Zappa/ The Mother of Invention

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conceptual continuity

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Ensemble Modern

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“G-Spot Tornado” was performed by them

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Don Van Vliet

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Captain Beefheart

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The Velvet Underground

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Nico’s band

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John Cale

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Frozen Warnings was produced and arranged by John, ex member of The Velvet Underground

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In-studio composition

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going into the recording studio with no idea of what to do and experiments

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Ambient music

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each time one listens to a song it is unique each time because of background noises

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Vocoder

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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

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basic notes

37
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Krautrock

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applied to German music

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Klaus Dinger, Michael Rother

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NEU! band members after splitting Kraftwerk

39
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Motorik beat

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steady beat; boom boom crack

40
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Sequencer

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remember the sounds that are played; in Tangerine Dream

41
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Mick Ronson

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guitarist of David Bowie

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Tony Defries

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manager of David Bowie

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Berlin Trilogy – Low, “Heroes,” Lodger

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made with Brian Eno, Trilogy saw Bowie experiment with elements of electronic and ambient

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Marc Bolan

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vocals, guitar, songs of T-Rex

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“All the Young Dudes” David Bowie

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written and produced by David Bowie to try and keep Mott the Hoopie stay together

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Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno

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Roxy Music members; Bryan Ferry- vocals, songs; Brian Eno- synthesizer and treatments

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Freddie Mercury

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Vocals, keyboards

48
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The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Hollies

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David Crosby= Byrds; Stephen Stills= Buffalo Springfied; Graham Nash= The Hollies

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Peter Asher

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James Taylor’s first album producer; A&R head for The Beatles newly formed label Apple Record

50
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Apple Records

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James Taylor album was released by Apple Record in late 60s; got signed to them

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Harvest

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1 on billboards and best selling album of 1972

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Gerry Goffin

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husband of Carole King that she wrote with

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Tapestry

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1 on billboard and held record for most weeks by female solo artists; Carole King

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Bernie Taupin

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Elton John’s lyricist

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Paul Simon- Jamaica, South Africa, Brazil

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recorded with Jimmy Cliff’s backing group, features music and musicians of South Africa and Brazil

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Bitches Brew

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Miles Davis’ first gold record

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John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock

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band members for Miles Davis, Electric guitar, drums, organ

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Polyrhythm

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Mahavishnu Orchestra; 2 different beats played at the same time

59
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Unusual time signatures

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Mahavishnu

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