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Notes on Musical Examples; Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; 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; Analyzing 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; Bibliography; Appendix A $ Braae weaves music analysis, critical theory, and production techniques to investigate the band and their work from an impressively large range of angles. Not only is this book for those of us who think Queen is the greatest band to ever grace the world stage, but the ideas and methods herein are also incredibly useful to scholars interested in popular music analysis more generally. |s Justin Williams, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Bristol |a 25/03/2021 $ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/9780197526736 $ http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/images/en_US/covers/large/9780197526743_450.jpg $ $

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