Progressive Rock: How Does It Influence Your Being as Musicians?

I am primarily a singer and keyboardist who plays and records this genre, to which I have also dedicated my graduation thesis. Like every genre, it also gathers naivety, redundancies, or slightly kitsch moments, but it was the ambitious and courageous attempt of rock to become an art form

Lorenzo

degree thesis in which degree course? Just curiosity

camy86 wrote:

As per the title: I think it is one of the genres that expresses musical language in forms of sound and rhythmic/harmonic expressiveness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2Kv1IaH-w

What do you all say? Imagine if, for example, Beethoven also had synthesizers and Hammond organs at his disposal!

I remember it very well; I have always liked this piece very much, but keep in mind that, if I'm not mistaken, Pink Floyd have very little to do with it. The success of the piece is due to their arranger, a contemporary classical composer whose name I can't recall now, who is also very 'attacked' by critics, saying he is a bad composer, nonsense of that sort. I remember reading somewhere that Pink Floyd only had the piece written in fragments and didn't even know what the hell to do with it. In my opinion, the credit for this piece goes to the arranger, not to Pink Floyd. For heaven's sake, in their genre they were geniuses; I am only speaking about this piece and all the pieces where you can hear 'strange' classical influences.

My theory is that great rock can be written without studying it, if one has an excellent ear and especially a lot of inspiration, but as for classical music, one can do somersaults, but if one hasn't studied it, one cannot write it. All too often I listen to great albums where the so-called 'author' whistled a melody or sang with the guitar, and the arranger/composer brought a monster to life (in the positive sense of the term).

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How does progressive rock influence my being as a musician? ..quite a lot

The Dark Side of the Moon was my first vinyl, so I am attached to it in some way

Pink Floyd took a lot from blues and are certainly more immediate and impactful compared to many groups of the period, but in the end, when I think of progressive rock, I think of Yes, Genesis...

I mean the early Genesis with Gabriel; then they became pop-rock and made things that are unlistenable to me

That was a beautiful musical period, the prog era, at least there were ideas, fantasy, a desire to do something new.....

Since Genesis are probably my favorites and since the forum is 'Piano Concerto', I would say that Firth Of Fifth should do fine

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zeus wrote:

Since Genesis are probably my favorites and since the forum is 'piano concerto' I would say that Firth Of Fifth could work well

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