MUS 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Tina Turner, The Who, French Horn
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The band started as a back-up group called the hawks, working with rockabilly singer. Woodstock - represented the zenith of the flower power movement, occurring a bit more than two years after the monterey pop festival. Process of emulating certain ideals of the art music world as a means of legitimizing music. Intersects with the theme of rock as drama. Lyrics addressed philosophical issues instead of romance and sex. Extended the idea that music should provide a trip. My generation stuttering vocal delivery by daltry was inspired by the speech patterns of the mods, as they were heavily into amphetamines and were generally regarded as inarticulate. 1st rock opera, but not really an opera. No synthesizers, strings or other classical music features, with the exception of some sparing use of timpani drums and a french horn. Tracks range in length from 12 seconds ( miracle cure ), to over ten minutes ( underture )
