Transcript Progressive rock 3 Yes and ELP

Progressive Rock 3
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Yes and Emerson Lake & Palmer
(ELP) – techno rock
Techno rock
• „Technical wizardry”
– Yes, still recording – dinosaurs?
– ELP : Supergroup trio, from the Nice and King
Crimson, Hammond and Moog
• Strong musically, classical training
• Poll-winning keyboardists: flamboyant and
virtuosic Emerson and Wakeman
Gatefold album sleeves
• Pink Floyd’s Dark
Side…
• Close to the Edge
album by Yes
– Roger Dean’s design
Yes 1
• Still recording…
• Lineup
– Jon Anderson, boss, called
Napoleon for diminutive
stature, high voice but
claims not falsetto
– Bill Bruford
– Rick Wakeman
• Yours is no disgrace from
The Yes album, 1970
– http://www.youtube.com/wa
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Yours is no disgrace
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your
face.
Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human
race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no
disgrace.
Battleships confide in me and tell me where you
are,
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me
where you are,
Lost in summer, morning, winter, travel very far,
Lost in musing circumstances, that's just where
you are.
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your
face.
Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human
race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any
place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no,
Yours is no disgrace.
Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the
earth,
Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals, their
morals disappear.
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon
your face.
Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human,
silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any
place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no,
Yours is no disgrace.
Yes 2
• Close to the Edge, from
eponymous album, 1972
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=dEfZY04fsr0&feature=BFa&list
=AVGxdCwVVULXfjdk9heW46v
SFdgxoEa3W5&lf=list_related
• Soon from Relayer, 1974
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=cGtjr-U5bT4&feature=related
Yes 3
• Revealing the Science of God
from Tales from Topographic
Oceans, 1973
– Part 1
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf9o
JkpOm00&feature=related
– Part 2
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r
hdMpEJhOCU&feature=related
• Turn of the Century, from Going
for the One, 1977
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjnZ
gc313uM&feature=kp
Soon
Soon oh soon the light
Pass within and soothe THIS endless
night
And wait here for you
Our reason to be here
Soon oh soon the time
All we move to gain will reach and calm
Our heart is open
Our reason to be here
Long ago, set into rhyme
Soon oh soon the light
Ours to shape for all time, ours the right
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here
ELP
• Influences: classical music, jazz,
hard rock
• Treatments of classical
composers, e.g Bach and Bartók
and them Mussorgsky’s Pictures
at an Exhibition
– Unprecedented for a classical piece
to be top hit
ELP, a cross-section
• Hoedown from 1974 Ladies and Gentlemen
concert (CD)
• The sage, from Pictures…, 1971
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Ippzdh0Qg
&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXeJoZWqdy
a7Iw4LbmMfFsz5&lf=list_related
• Tarkus Medley 1-2, 1971
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKNOlDtZlu
U
• Bartók’s Barbarian, 1970, sounds less good
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSegukNR8H
Y&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXeJoZWqd
ya7Iw4LbmMfFsz5&lf=list_related
• Jerusalem
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN11bI1_sZo
Jerusalem
And did those feet in ancient time,
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of Fire!
I will not cease from mental fight;
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land
Homework
• A close reading of the encyclopaedia entries (4 files)
• Procedure
– Do you find the evaluation positive or critical overall?
– What textual evidence is there to support the overall evaluation?
– Find the features the critic praises. Find the evidence, i.e.
relevant words/expressions/sentences that carry the message
– Find the features that are criticised. Also find the evidence that
proves the point.
– Your own evaluation: attach your own labels.
• Last but not least: Listening to the music we did not have
time for in class.
Extra slide: Dense text and
reduced forms
• Emerson had already established unique reputation as
organist supreme, coupling natural ability with daring
acrobatics involving flung daggers, organ-vaulting,
Hammond-raping and general musical sadism towards his
equipment…
• …ELP laid low until 1977 release of characteristically
pretentious works, a double set threateningly subtitled
Volume 1.
• Wakeman, who had previously drawn attention to his
overflowing abilities on keyboards via his work with the
Strawbs, a group which was unable to provide the
necessary scope for the full range of this classically trained
musician’s talents.
Extra slide: Metaphoric
language
• Crimson
– …dogged by…
– seminal progressive rock band
• ELP
– grandiose and flamboyant displays of
technical skill.
– …to lift group out of musical rut