Rock and rhapsodies : the music of Queen / Nick Braae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braae, Nick, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock music--Analysis, appreciation.

Rock music.

Queen (Musical group).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

What, exactly, gave Queen's songs their magical and distinct musical identity? 'Rock and Rhapsodies' answers this question through a fascinating musicological study of the band's output.

Contents:

cover

Rock and Rhapsodies

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Notes on Musical Examples

1. Introduction

The Book

The Study of Queen

Issues of Style

2. Queen's Idiolect: A Primer

Harmonic Structure and Gestures

Textural Foundations and the Sound-​Box

Arrangement and Performance Gestures

Sounds like Queen, and Other Conclusions

3. Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry: Queen's Structural Archetypes

Introduction and Definitions

Conventional Forms

Variations on Conventional Forms

Episodic Songs

Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry

4. Temporal Processes in Queen's Large-​Scale Songs

Time and Popular Song

Phrase and Intra-​Sectional Linearity

Sectional Temporality

Closure

Queen's Temporal Processes and Exceptions

5. Brian May and Roger Taylor

Analysing the Voice

The Voices of Brian May and Roger Taylor

May, Taylor, and Rock Authenticity

6. Freddie Mercury

The Voices

Structural Dynamics

Stylistic Incongruities, Queer and Camp Voices, and the 'Real' Freddie

Mercury, Rock Authenticity, and Interpretation

Coda

7. Hard Rock, Glam Rock, and Progressive Rock in the 1970s

Commentary and Conceptual Considerations

Queen's 'Dominant Voice': The Hard Rock Connection

The Glam Rock Connection: Exaggeration, Irony, and Play

Progressive Rock and Interplay

8. The Musical World(s) of Queen

A 'Unique' Sonic Fingerprint and Pastiche in the 1970s

Queen's Sonic Patterns and Stylistic Connections

The Musical World(s) of Queen

9. A Day at the Races and the Gestural Unity of Queen

Queen in 1976 and the Ideal of Evolution

The Notion of Gestural Unity: Idiolect Revisited

A Day at the Races

The Gestural Unity of Queen

10. Was It All Worth It? Queen in the 1980s

A Decade of Changing Fortunes.

From 'Save Me' to 'Staying Power'

The Rock Ballads Revisited

Hard Rock by Numbers

Was It All Worth It?

11. Queen's Jubilee: The Late Style of Innuendo

Introduction

'Innuendo'

'The Show Must Go On'

A Late Style of Queen

12. Legacy

Post-​1991

Replacing Freddie

'No One But You'

We Will Rock You

The Influence of Queen

The End of the Story

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-752677-2

0-19-752676-4

OCLC:

1242024210