Progressive Rock 3revised Powerpoint

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

tch?v=Vd4jeeu90Rk&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXfjdk9heW46vSFdgxoEa3W5&lf=list_related

Yours is no disgraceYesterday 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=AVGxdCwVVULXfjdk9heW46vSFdgxoEa3W5&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=Sf9oJkpOm00&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

SoonSoon oh soon the lightPass within and soothe THIS endless nightAnd wait here for youOur reason to be here

Soon oh soon the timeAll we move to gain will reach and calmOur heart is openOur reason to be here

Long ago, set into rhyme

Soon oh soon the lightOurs to shape for all time, ours the rightThe sun will lead usOur reason to be hereThe sun will lead usOur 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=AVGxdCwVVULXeJoZWqdya7Iw4LbmMfFsz5&lf=list_related

• Tarkus Medley 1-2, 1971– http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=WKNOlDtZluU• Bartók’s Barbarian, 1970, sounds less good

– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSegukNR8HY&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXeJoZWqdya7Iw4LbmMfFsz5&lf=list_related

• Jerusalem– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN11bI1_sZo

JerusalemAnd did those feet in ancient time,Walk upon England's mountains green?And was the holy lamb of GodOn England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine,Shine forth upon our clouded hills?And was Jerusalem builded hereAmong 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 handTill we have built JerusalemIn 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