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Music of France
During the 50s and 60s , it was the golden age of Chanson Française : Juliette Greco , Mireille Mathieu , Georges Brassens , Jacques Brel , Gilbert Bécaud , Monique Serf ( Barbara ) , Léo Ferré , Charles Aznavour and Alain Barrière . The Yéyé style was popular in the 1950s and 60s with Sheila , Claude François and Françoise Hardy .
Empire State of Mind
`` Empire State of Mind ( Part II ) Broken Down '' was generally well received by contemporary music critics in their reviews for The Element of Freedom . Allison Stewart of The Washington Post noted that the track , which is a pop ballad , had replaced `` Empire State of Mind '' sports team references and ruminations with `` even milder and less controversial string of generalities '' , highlighting Keys ' version 's lyrics `` If I could make it here / I could make it anywhere '' . The song peaked at number four in the United Kingdom , number forty on the Canadian Hot 100 , and number sixty - nine in Sweden . It also debuted on the Billboard R&B charts at number seventy - seven and peaked at number fifty - five on the Billboard Hot 100 without an official release .
Grunge
During the mid-1990s many grunge bands broke up or became less visible . Kurt Cobain , labeled by Time as `` the John Lennon of the swinging Northwest '' , appeared `` unusually tortured by success '' and struggled with an addiction to heroin . Rumors surfaced in early 1994 that Cobain suffered a drug overdose and that Nirvana was breaking up . On April 8 , 1994 , Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home from an apparently self - inflicted gunshot wound ; Nirvana summarily disbanded . Cobain 's suicide `` served as a catalyst for grunge 's ... demise '' , because it `` ... deflated the energy from grunge and provided the opening for saccharine and corporate - formulated music to regain '' its lost footing . ''
Melanie (singer)
The recording became a hit in Europe , Australia , Canada , and the United States in 1970 . The B - side of the single featured Melanie 's spoken - word track `` Candles in the Rain '' . `` Lay Down '' became Melanie 's first Top Ten hit in America , peaking at Number 6 on the Billboard singles chart and achieving worldwide success . Later hits included `` Peace Will Come ( According To Plan ) '' and a cover of the Rolling Stones ' `` Ruby Tuesday '' . Melanie
The Star-Spangled Banner
The song gained popularity throughout the 19th century and bands played it during public events , such as July 4th celebrations .
Grunge
In 2011 , music critic Dave Whitaker wrote that each generation from the start of `` ... recorded music has introduced a game - changing genre '' , from swing music in the 1930s , rock and roll in the 1950s , punk rock in the 1970s and then grunge in the 1990s . However , he states `` grunge was the last American musical revolution '' , as no post-grunge generation has introduced a new genre which radically changed the music scene . He states that the `` digital revolution '' ( ( online music , file sharing , etc . ) ) has meant that there has not been a `` ... generation - defining genre since grunge '' , because , for `` one genre to so completely saturate the market requires ... a music industry with immense control over the market '' . In 2016 , Rob Zombie stated that grunge caused the death of the `` rock star '' ; he states that unlike previous stars like `` ... Alice Cooper and Gene Simmons and Elton John '' , who `` ... might as well have been from another fuckin ' planet '' , with grunge , the attitude was `` ( we ) need all our rock stars to look just like us . ''
Classical period (music)
The Classical period also saw the gradual development of sonata form , a set of structural principles for music that reconciled the Classical preference for melodic material with harmonic development , which could be applied across musical genres . The sonata itself continued to be the principal form for solo and chamber music , while later in the Classical period the string quartet became a prominent genre . The symphony form for orchestra was created in this period ( this is popularly attributed to Joseph Haydn ) . The concerto grosso ( a concerto for more than one musician ) , a very popular form in the Baroque era , began to be replaced by the solo concerto , featuring only one soloist . Composers began to place more importance on the particular soloist 's ability to show off virtuoso skills , with challenging , fast scale and arpeggio runs . Nonetheless , some concerti grossi remained , the most famous of which being Mozart 's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat Major . A
Guns N' Roses
Guns N ' Roses has also received significant criticism throughout the years . The band received criticism for drug and alcohol use in the 80 's & early 90 's . The long periods of time between albums are another source of criticism . Songs such as `` One in a Million '' and the band 's cover of Charles Manson 's `` Look at Your Game , Girl '' were considerably controversial upon release . In addition , some lyrics have been regarded as sexist .
Grunge
Grunge attracted media attention in the United Kingdom after Pavitt and Poneman asked journalist Everett True from the British magazine Melody Maker to write an article on the local music scene . This exposure helped to make grunge known outside of the local area during the late 1980s and drew more people to local shows . The appeal of grunge to the music press was that it `` promised the return to a notion of a regional , authorial vision for American rock '' . Grunge 's popularity in the underground music scene was such that bands began to move to Seattle and approximate the look and sound of the original grunge bands . Mudhoney 's Steve Turner said , `` It was really bad . Pretend bands were popping up here , things were n't coming from where we were coming from . '' As a reaction , many grunge bands diversified their sound , with Nirvana and Tad in particular creating more melodic songs . Dawn Anderson of the Seattle fanzine Backlash recalled that by 1990 many locals had tired of the hype surrounding the Seattle scene and hoped that media exposure had dissipated .
Jefferson Starship
Their second album , 1975 's Red Octopus had even greater success , with hit songs like `` Miracles , '' ( # 3 US -- Balin ) `` Fast Buck Freddie '' ( Chaquico , Slick ) and `` Play on Love '' ( Sears , Slick ) . The album reached multiple - platinum status and No. 1 in the Billboard 100 . Creach quietly left the band in August 1975 to pursue a solo career .
Grunge
Bob Batchelor states that the indie record mindset and values in Seattle which provided guidance for the development and emergence of Nirvana and Pearl Jam `` ... conflicted with the major recording label desire to sell millions of CDs . '' Batchelor also states that despite grunge musicians ' discomfort with the major labels ' commercial goals , and the resistance by some key bands to do the promotional activities required by the labels , including music videos , MTV 's video programs `` ... played an instrumental role in making ( grunge ) '' become `` ... mainstream , since many music fans received their first exposure '' on MTV , rather than on local or `` niche radio . '' Gil Troy states that the `` ... grunge rebellion , like most others '' in America 's `` consumerist '' culture , ended up being `` commodified , mass - produced , ritualized , and thus sanitized '' by major corporations . This
Guns N' Roses
Guns N ' Roses ' debut album , Appetite for Destruction ( 1987 ) , reached number one on the Billboard 200 a year after its release , on the strength of `` Sweet Child o ' Mine '' , the band 's only single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 . The album has sold approximately 30 million copies worldwide , including 18 million units in the United States , making it the best - selling debut album of all time in the US , as well as the eleventh best - selling album in the United States . The success of the debut was followed by the eight - song album G N ' R Lies ( 1988 ) which reached number two on the Billboard 200 . The twin albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II ( 1991 ) debuted at number two and number one on the Billboard 200 respectively and have sold a combined 35 million copies worldwide , including 14 million units in the United States . The cover album `` The Spaghetti Incident ? '' ( 1993 ) was the band 's last studio album to feature Slash and McKagan .
Grunge
In Jason Heller 's 2013 article `` Did grunge really matter ? '' , in A.V. CLUB , he stated that Nirvana 's In Utero ( September 1993 ) was `` grunge 's death knell . As soon as Cobain grumbled , `` Teenage angst has paid off well / Now I 'm bored and old , '' it was all over . '' Heller states that after Cobain 's death in 1994 , the `` hypocrisy '' in the grunge of the time `` became ... glaring '' and `` idealism became embarrassing '' , with the result being that `` grunge became the new ( mainstream ) Aerosmith '' . Heller states that `` grunge became an evolutionary dead end '' , because `` it stood for nothing and was built on nothing , and that ethos of negation was all it was about . ''
Woman's Hour
In its earlier years , it used a variety of popular light classics as signature tunes , including such pieces as H. Elliott - Smith 's Wanderlust ( Waltz ) , Anthony Collins ' Vanity Fair , and the lively Overture from Gabriel Fauré 's Masques et Bergamasques . From the early 1970s , specially composed pieces were used , several of which were provided by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop .
Pomp and Circumstance Marches
March No. 1 in D ( 1901 ) March No. 2 in A minor ( 1901 ) March No. 3 in C minor ( 1904 ) March No. 4 in G ( 1907 ) March No. 5 in C ( 1930 ) March No. 6 in G minor ( written as sketches , elaborated by Anthony Payne in 2005 -- 06 )
Grunge
Despite Kurt Cobain 's death , the remaining members of Nirvana have continued to be successful posthumously . Due to the high sales for Kurt Cobain 's Journals and the band 's best - of compilation Nirvana upon their releases in 2002 , The New York Times argued Nirvana `` are having more success now than at any point since Mr. Cobain 's suicide in 1994 . '' This trend has continued through the century 's second decade , with the reissuing of the band 's discography and release of the authorized documentary Kurt Cobain : Montage of Heck . In 2012 , the surviving members of Nirvana re-united , with Paul McCartney in place of Cobain , to record a track for the soundtrack Dave Grohl 's documentary Sound City titled `` Cut Me Some Slack '' .
Classical period (music)
Direct influence of the Baroque continued to fade : the figured bass grew less prominent as a means of holding performance together , the performance practices of the mid-18th century continued to die out . However , at the same time , complete editions of Baroque masters began to become available , and the influence of Baroque style continued to grow , particularly in the ever more expansive use of brass . Another feature of the period is the growing number of performances where the composer was not present . This led to increased detail and specificity in notation ; for example , there were fewer `` optional '' parts that stood separately from the main score .
Brittany
Since the early 1970s , Brittany has experienced a tremendous revival of its folk music . Numerous festivals were created , along with smaller fest - noz ( popular feasts ) . The bagado ù , bands composed of bagpipes , bombards and drums ( including snare ) , are also a modern creation , inspired by the Scottish pipe bands . The Lann - Bihoué bagad , one of the most well - known , belongs to the French Navy . It is the only one that does not take part to the annual bagadoù competitions . Celtic harp is also common , as are vocals and dances . The Kan ha diskan is the most common type of singing . The performers sing calls and responses while dancing . Breton dances usually imply circles , chains or couples and they are different in every region . The oldest dances seem to be the passepied and the gavotte , and the newest ones derive from the quadrille and French Renaissance dances . Nolwenn
Pearl Jam
With the success of Ten , Pearl Jam became a key member of the Seattle grunge explosion , along with Alice in Chains , Nirvana , and Soundgarden . The band was criticized in the music press ; British music magazine NME said that Pearl Jam was `` trying to steal money from young alternative kids ' pockets . '' Nirvana 's Kurt Cobain angrily attacked Pearl Jam , claiming the band were commercial sellouts , and argued Ten was not a true alternative album because it had so many prominent guitar leads . Cobain later reconciled with Vedder , and they reportedly were on amicable terms before Cobain 's death in 1994 .
Bee Gees
In late 2004 , Robin embarked on a solo tour of Germany , Russia and Asia . During January 2005 , Barry , Robin and several legendary rock artists recorded `` Grief Never Grows Old '' , the official tsunami relief record for the Disasters Emergency Committee . Later that year , Barry reunited with Barbra Streisand for her top - selling album Guilty Pleasures , released as Guilty Too in the UK as a sequel album to the previous Guilty . Robin continued touring in Europe . Also in 2004 , Barry recorded his song `` I Cannot Give You My Love '' with Cliff Richard , which became a UK top 20 hit single .
Medieval music
The trouvères and troubadours shared similar musical styes , but the trouvères were generally noblemen . The music of the trouvères was similar to that of the troubadours , but was able to survive into the thirteenth century unaffected by the Albigensian Crusade . Most of the more than two thousand surviving trouvère songs include music , and show a sophistication as great as that of the poetry it accompanies .
Grunge
Rolling Stone noted the genre 's lack of a clear definition . Robert Loss acknowledges the challenges of defining `` grunge '' ; he states that one can recount stories from the grunge scene to try and explain it , but as soon as you try to define grunge this way , `` it slips out of your hand '' . Roy Shuker states that the term `` obscured a variety of styles . '' Stetson states that grunge was not a movement , `` monolithic musical genre '' , or a way to react to 1980s - era metal pop ; he calls the term a misnomer mostly based on hype . Shuker states that the `` ' Seattle sound ' became a marketing ploy for the music industry . '' Stetson also states that prominent bands considered to be grunge ( Nirvana , Pearl Jam , Soundgarden , Alice in Chains , Mudhoney and Hammerbox ) all sound different . Mark Yarm , author of Everybody Loves Our Town : An Oral History of Grunge , pointed out vast differences between grunge bands , with some being punk and others being metal - based .
Pandora
At the other end of the century , Gabriel Fauré 's ambitious opera Prométhée ( 1900 ) had a cast of hundreds , a huge orchestra and an outdoor amphitheatre for stage . It was based in part on the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus but was rewritten so as to give the character of Pandore an equal part with his . This necessitated her falling `` as if dead '' on hearing the judgement against Prométhée in Act 1 ; a funeral procession bearing her body at the start of Act 2 , after which she revives to mourn the carrying out of Prométhée 's sentence ; while in Act 3 she disobeys Prométhée by accepting a box , supposedly filled with blessings for mankind , and makes the tragedy complete .
Scratching
Since the 1990s , scratching has been used in a variety of popular music genres such as nu metal , exemplified by Linkin Park , Slipknot and Limp Bizkit . It has also been used by artists in pop music ( e.g. Nelly Furtado ) and alternative rock ( e.g. Incubus ) . Scratching is also popular in various electronic music styles , such as hard - groove techno .
Renaissance
From this changing society emerged a common , unifying musical language , in particular the polyphonic style of the Franco - Flemish school . The development of printing made distribution of music possible on a wide scale . Demand for music as entertainment and as an activity for educated amateurs increased with the emergence of a bourgeois class . Dissemination of chansons , motets , and masses throughout Europe coincided with the unification of polyphonic practice into the fluid style that culminated in the second half of the sixteenth century in the work of composers such as Palestrina , Lassus , Victoria and William Byrd .
Music of France
Chanson Française is the typical style of French music ( chanson means `` song '' in French ) and is still very popular in France . Some of the most important artists included : Édith Piaf , Juliette Greco , Mireille Mathieu , Jacques Brel , Georges Brassens , Gilbert Bécaud , Monique Serf ( Barbara ) , Léo Ferré , Charles Aznavour , Salvatore Adamo and Dalida plus the more art - house musicians like Brigitte Fontaine . Also during the 1950s one of the more representative of Montmartre cabaret singers was Suzanne Robert . Dalida
Medieval music
The most significant of these developments was the creation of `` florid organum '' around 1100 , sometimes known as the school of St. Martial ( named after a monastery in south - central France , which contains the best - preserved manuscript of this repertory ) . In `` florid organum '' the original tune would be sung in long notes while an accompanying voice would sing many notes to each one of the original , often in a highly elaborate fashion , all the while emphasizing the perfect consonances ( fourths , fifths and octaves ) , as in the earlier organa . Later developments of organum occurred in England , where the interval of the third was particularly favoured , and where organa were likely improvised against an existing chant melody , and at Notre Dame in Paris , which was to be the centre of musical creative activity throughout the thirteenth century .
Wicked (musical)
Two musical themes in Wicked run throughout the score . Although Schwartz rarely reuses motifs or melodies from earlier works , the first -- Elphaba 's theme -- came from The Survival of St. Joan , on which he worked as musical director . `` I always liked this tune a lot and I never could figure out what to do with it , '' he remarked in an interview in 2004 . The chord progression that he first penned in 1971 became a major theme of the show 's orchestration . By changing the instruments that carry the motif in each instance , Schwartz enables the same melody to convey different moods . In the overture , the tune is carried by the orchestra 's brass section , with heavy percussion . The result is , in Schwartz ' own words , `` like a giant shadow terrorizing you '' . When played by the piano with some electric bass in `` As Long As You 're Mine '' , however , the same chord progression becomes the basis for a romantic duet . And with new lyrics and an altered bridge , the theme forms the core of the song `` No One Mourns the Wicked '' and its reprises .
Tears in Heaven
In Canada , the Reprise Records single release topped all of the three pop single sales chart in the country and is therefore Clapton 's most successful single in Canada to date . The song reached the number one top position on both the Canadian Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and Top 100 Singles chart , compiled by the RPM magazine . In addition to the already rare success , reaching number one on both of the charts , `` Tears in Heaven '' was also The Record magazines Top Retail selling single release . Shortly after the single was released in Canada and topped all of these three record charts , it was certified with a double Platinum sales certification for physical sales exceeding 200,000 copies . In 1992 , `` Tears in Heaven '' was the 17th best - selling single on RPM magazines Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart .
String section
Richard Strauss ' Elektra ( 1909 ) and Josephslegende , and some of George Handel 's coronation anthems , are notable examples of the violins being divided threefold .
Guns N' Roses
Guns N ' Roses `` November Rain '' ( 1991 ) Sample of November Rain from Use Your Illusion I , the longest song to reach top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 . Problems playing this file ? See media help .
John Lennon
The Lennon -- McCartney songwriting partnership is regarded as one of the most influential and successful of the 20th century . As performer , writer or co-writer , Lennon had 25 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart . His album sales in the US stand at 14 million units . Double Fantasy was his best - selling solo album , at three million shipments in the US ; Released shortly before his death , it won the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year . The following year , the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music was given to Lennon .
Fleetwood Mac
Following Mirage the band went on hiatus , which allowed members to pursue solo careers . Stevie Nicks released two more solo albums ( 1983 's The Wild Heart and 1985 's Rock a Little ) . Lindsey Buckingham issued Go Insane in 1984 , the same year that Christine McVie made an eponymous album ( yielding the Top 10 hit `` Got a Hold on Me '' and the Top 40 hit `` Love Will Show Us How '' ) . All three met with success , Nicks being the most popular . During this period Mick Fleetwood had filed for bankruptcy , Nicks was admitted to the Betty Ford Clinic for addiction problems and John McVie had suffered an addiction - related seizure , all of which were attributed to the lifestyle of excess afforded to them by their worldwide success . It was rumoured that Fleetwood Mac had disbanded , but Buckingham commented that he was unhappy to allow Mirage to remain as the band 's last effort .
Fly Like an Eagle (song)
Chart ( 1997 ) Peak position Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) Belgium ( Ultratip Flanders ) 7 Germany ( Official German Charts ) 61 New Zealand ( Recorded Music NZ ) 29 Scotland ( Official Charts Company ) 20 Switzerland ( Schweizer Hitparade ) 38 UK Singles ( Official Charts Company ) 13 US Billboard Hot 100 10 US Billboard Adult Contemporary 9
Fly Like an Eagle (song)
Weekly singles charts ( edit ) Chart ( 1976 -- 77 ) Peak position Canada RPM Netherlands ( Single Top 100 ) 21 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 38 U.S. Cash Box Top 100 Year - end charts ( edit ) Chart ( 1977 ) Rank Canada 34 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 28 U.S. Cash Box 50
Music of France
Though rock was not extremely popular until the 70s , there were innovative musicians in France as the psychedelic rock trend was peaking worldwide . Jean - Pierre Massiera 's Les Maledictus Sound ( 1968 ) and Aphrodite 's Child 's 666 were the most influential . Later came bands such as Magma , Martin Circus , Au Bonheur des Dames , Trust , Téléphone , Noir Désir , and musicians Marcel Dadi , Paul Personne and Bireli Lagrene .
French horn
The development of the valve horn was exploited by romantic composers such as Bruckner , Mahler , and Richard Strauss , whose father was a well - known professional horn player . Strauss 's Till Eulenspiegel 's Merry Pranks contains one of the best known horn solos from this period , relying on the chromatic facility of the valved horn . Schumann 's Konzertstück for four horns and orchestra is a notable three - movement work . Brahms had a lifelong love - affair with the instrument , with many prominently featured parts throughout his four symphonies . However players today typically play Brahms on modern valved instruments .