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Deep Purple

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“Concerto for Group and Orchestra” - Art Rock

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Frank Zappa

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“It can’t happen Here” Freak out (1966) - Art Rock

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The Who

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“My Generation”-Art Rock

“Pinball Wizard” - Art Rock

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Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

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“Karn Evil 9”, First Impression Part 2- Art Rock

Brain Salad Surgery (1973)

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Eric Clapton

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461 Ocean Boulevard (1974)

“Layla”- Mainstream Rock

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Bruce Springsteen

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“Dancing in the Dark” Born in the USA (1984) - Mainstream Rock
Born To Run
Greetings from Asbury Park

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Pink Floyd

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The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
The Wall (1979)
“Us an Them” The dark side of the moon - Progressive Rock

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King Crimson

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“Fripper Tronics” Larks: Tongues in Aspic (1973)- Progressive Rock

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Miles Davis

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Joni Mitchell

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“Help Me” Court & Spark (1974) - Progressive Rock

Album w/ Weather Report was Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter

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Jim Croce

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“operator” You don’t mess around with Jim - Progressive Rock

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Billy Joel

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“The Longest Time” Innocent Man - Progressive Rock

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The Band

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“The Weight” Music from Big Pink- Progressive Country

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Phish

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“Fee” Lawn Boy - Jam Band

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Neil Diamond

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“Cracklin Rosie” Top Root Manuscript - Soft Rock

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Led Zeppelin

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“Whole Lotta Love” Led Zeppelin II
“Stairway to Heaven” Led Zeppelin IV
“No Quarter” Houses of the Holy
BRITISH HEAVY METAL BAND

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Guns N’ Roses

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“Reckless Life”
“Move to the City” Live Like a Suicide
Appetite For Destruction
American Heavy Metal

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Metallica

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“Doom & Gloom” Heavy Metal

“Dyers Eve” And Justice For All

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David Bowie

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“Suffragette City” Glitter/Glam Rock

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The Sex Pistols

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“Anarchy in the U.K.” Punk

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Frank Zappa - What era of Western art music influenced his style and what musical styles influenced his music.

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Influenced by R&B and Contemporary Classical
Classical Period (1750-1825)
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Eric Clapton - what musical styles influenced his music.

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Blues Based style

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Know the six typical approaches to combining classical (or Western art music) elements and rock elements.

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  • Quote classical excerpt within a rock song
  • Use a classical melody as the basis of a rock song
  • Rock suite or song cycle
  • Adapt a full classical work to a rock-style performance
  • Create a work for rock group & classical ensemble
  • Using rock musical language, create an extended work modeled after a classical form
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Most art rock bands began as blues-based rock bands in what country in the 1960s and 1970s?

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England

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Why is Frank Zappa thought of as an “iconoclast”?

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His album Freak Out! showed that he fully understood his style.

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Why was the early 1970s music market so fragmented?

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Society fragmented into hundreds of self-interest groups.

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What was the longest-running chart album in history? Who was the group or artist?

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n

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Led Zeppelin – members and their roles in the group?

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Jimmy Page= Guitarist
Robert Plant= Lead vocals And harmonica
John Bonham= Drums
John Paul Jones= Bass and keyboards

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Which member was part of another famous group? Why did the group disband?

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Jimmy page formed a band

Struck to Plant and Bonham died

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Ozzy Osbourne (his band)

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Black Sabbath

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Style characteristics of early songs of Guns N’ Roses

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Heavy metal, hard rock mainstream,

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Rage Against the Machine (affiliated genre)

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Rap subgenre

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Megadeth (Who formed the group? When?)

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Metallicas guitarist Dave Mustaine in 1985

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The Velvet Underground (Why were they important?)

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They were not in any stream. Trained by Lou reed and John Cale

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Shuffle is

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A rhythm derived from the shuffle dance step.

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Progressive Rock

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A term that replaced art rock and refers to the 1970s extension of the late 1960s art rock trend

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Frippertronics

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N

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Fusion is

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N

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Reggae- Musical style characteristics

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1) Dry Stacato ( Seperation between notes, gentle beat)
2) Moderate Tempo
3) Jamaican Dialect

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Jam- Musical style characteristics

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N

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Nu Metal is

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A subgenre of rap, combining the musical elements of heavy metal with the spoken vocal delivery style of rap.

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Glam/Glitter Rock and David Bowie

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Alternative rock that portrayed androgynous characteristics. Bowie was bisexual and he was a rock star in a role.

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Ziggy Stardust

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Bowie created this character and it showed that bowie could switch musical gears.

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Punk – musical style characteristics are

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Simple, repetitive and louder

- Gross lyrics and shocking images cultivated

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First major British punk group?

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Sex Pistols

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Roots of the American punk mini-movement (bands)?

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The Velvet Underground and MC5

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Grunge – musical style characteristics.

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artistic freedom, Dissonant and tolerant lyrics

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Grunge foundational band?

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The Pixies

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Record label that signed Nirvana first?

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Sub Pop

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