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- Title
"To Let it Be Without Pretense": Canon, Fugue, and Imitation in Progressive Rock 1968-1979.
- Authors
Lundberg, Mattias
- Abstract
This article examines the use of canonic, fugal, and imitative writing in progressive rock, with special emphasis on the interaction between received models of composition and the apparent trialing and struggles to utilize, appropriate, and reinterpret such models in a popular, commercial, and performance-mediated idiom. While the reception history of progressive rock has hitherto mainly focused on the concepts of "pretension" (the appropriation of elements from the Western classical tradition) and "contention" (the countercukural social critique of cultural, musical, and political establishments), the music considered here illustrates problems of contention not just against the establishment but also within the counterculture itself, through both emblematic qualities of learned writing (surface allusions to counterpoint) and functional applications of received and appropriated counterpoint traditions (structural use of counterpoint).
- Subjects
MUSICAL composition; MUSICOLOGY; PROGRESSIVE rock music; COUNTERCULTURE; ACADEMIC discourse
- Publication
Music Theory Online, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 3, p36
- ISSN
1067-3040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.30535/mto.20.3.1