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Jun 19, 2024 · Baroque pop seamlessly blends classical music elements with pop structures, creating a rich and intricate soundscape. With its lush orchestration and innovative style, this genre continues to captivate listeners worldwide.
- MC Fioti: ‘Bum Bum Tam Tam’ Brazilian rapper MC Fioti also loves his Bach solo Partitas. His hit Bum Bum Tam Tam, and all its 1.6 billion YouTube views, samples Bach’s Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV1013.
- Eminem: ‘Brainless’ Johann Sebastian joins the American rapper in this 2013 outing. From 43 seconds in, you can catch Slim Shady rapping alongside the fugue subject from Bach’s famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
- Eddie Van Halen: ‘Eruption’ There’s more Toccata and Fugue-ing from the late heavy metal guitar maestro Eddie Van Halen, in this instrumental epic. Interestingly, the pioneers of heavy metal guitar studied Baroque, Classical and Romantic violin and virtuoso repertoire, and it went on to influence much of their style and technique.
- Jem: ‘They’ Here’s a vocalisation of the Prelude in F minor from Book Two of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier – loud and clear, perfectly placed, and absolutely beautiful.
Baroque pop (sometimes called baroque rock) is a fusion genre that combines rock music with particular elements of classical music.
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- Care of Cell 44” by The Zombies (from the album Odessey and Oracle, 1968) If you’re looking for the ultimate baroque pop album, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything quite so representative as Odessey and Oracle, the Zombies’ day-glo masterpiece.
- “ Both Sides Now” by Judy Collins (from the album Wildflowers, 1967) Joni Mitchell wrote this song, and Collins fell in love with it and recorded it before Mitchell even had the chance.
- “ (Do I Figure) In Your Life” by Honeybus (released as a single in 1967) This song has lived on as a cover version over the years, with Joe Cocker and Paul Carrack among the monumental vocalists who have put their stamp on the tune’s indelible melody.
- “ Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles (from the album Revolver, 1966) The Beatles had already embraced strings on their 1965 hit U.S. single “Yesterday,” but that was more like a folk song with some classical instrumentation providing a bit of flavor.
Layered harmonies, strings, and horns are all hallmarks of baroque pop, as is the music's dramatic intensity. At the time of its inception, it was rock's most mature outgrowth to date, and its spirit lives on in everything from the Philly soul sound of the early '70s to the like-minded chamber pop sound of the mid-'90s.
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This is a list of artists who have been described as general purveyors of baroque pop, a genre identifiable for its appropriation of Baroque compositional styles (contrapuntal melodies and functional harmony patterns) and dramatic or melancholic gestures. [1]
