Rock and Rhapsodies The Music of Queen by Nick Braae PAPERBACK 9780197526743

Name: Rock and Rhapsodies The Music of Queen by Nick Braae PAPERBACK 9780197526743
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc

Oxford University Press Inc

Rock and RhapsodiesThe Music of Queen\nAuthor(s): Nick Braae\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197526743, 978-0197526743\nSynopsis\nSince 1973, Queen have captivated listeners through the intense sonic palette of voices and guitars, the sprawling and epic journeys of songs, and charismatic splendour of their live performances. Rock and Rhapsodies is the first book to undertake a musicological study of the band's output, with a fundamental aim of discovering what, exactly, gave Queen's songs their magical and distinct musical identity. Focusing on the material written, recorded, and released between 1973 and 1991, author Nick Braae provides readers with an in-depth and nuanced analytical account of the group's individual musical style (or \""idiolect\""), and illuminates the multifaceted stylistic and historical contexts in which Queen's music was created. Aspects of Queen's songs are also used as a .