Progressive music is the name given to a certain approach to musical composition that has been applied to several different music genres. One way the term has been applied is to subgenres that have evolved from their root genre by innovating, either through incorporating instruments from other genres or using new techniques within the framework provided by the instrumentation of the root genre to make a new or crossover style. Another is in reference to a gradual build-up of energy within progressive music track or throughout an album. Musical composition is: a piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance or recorded track). ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... In music, crossover is a term used to describe material borrowed from a different style or genre and whose popularity crosses the considered boundaries of styles or genres. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ...

History

The description "progressive" was first applied to jazz. The term, coined by Stan Kenton, was in reference to cool jazz tracks that used instrumentation to create an almost art rock like sound. The genre is closely related to bebop. Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. ... CD reissue of Daviss 1957 LP Birth of the Cool, collecting much of his 1949 to 1950 work. ... Art rock is a term used by some to describe rock music that is characterized by ambitious or avant-garde lyrical themes and/or melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic experimentation, often extending beyond standard modern popular music forms and genres, toward influences in jazz, classical, world music or the experimental avant... Bebop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. ...

Progressive rock

Main article: Progressive rock

In rock, the word usually describes music that expands traditional musical structures by adopting influences of jazz, symphonic, folk and world music. Progressive rock artists often string together the songs so that the entire album will become an uninterrupted musical "journey". Long tracks that can be divided into separate movements, all with its own place in the overarching theme of the song, are very common in progressive. An important aspect of progressive rock is the juxtaposition of contrast elements such as the raw, loud and fast with the calm and slow. Thus progressive rock not only tends to have strong melodic elements, but also expands the harmonic margin of rock music by utilizing atonal patterns from modern classical music as well as advanced chords from jazz theory. Progressive rock's popularity peaked in the early to mid 1970s with bands such as the "big four" consisting of Yes, Genesis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and King Crimson. Many of these bands had their origins in the 1960s art schools of Britain. For the Swedish political music movement, see progg. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Atonality in a general sense describes music that departs from the system of tonal hierarchies that are said to characterized the sound of classical European music from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that Six of the Best be merged into this article or section. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... King Crimson are an English musical group founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969. ...

Progressive metal

Main article: Progressive metal

Although influenced by hard rock bands of the 70s who came close to progressive metal, such as Deep Purple, King Crimson, and Rush, it is generally agreed that progressive metal emerged in the 1980s with thrash bands such as Diamond Head (Lightning to the Nations), Metallica (...And Justice For All) and Megadeth (Rust In Peace), who brought complicated guitar compositions, time changes, and longer songs to heavy metal. Combined with traditional sounds of the 70s movement of prog rock, progressive metal has evolved through the work of artists like Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Queensrÿche, Symphony X, We came with broken teeth ,Opeth, and Pain of Salvation. Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music which shares traits with progressive rock including use of complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing. ... This article is about the rock band. ... King Crimson are an English musical group founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969. ... Rush is a Canadian rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist, and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ... Diamond Head Diamond Head are a British heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. ... Metallica is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1981,[1] which became one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... Megadeth is an American heavy metal band led by founder, frontman, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. ... Heavy metal (sometimes referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed between 1969 and 1974. ... Dream Theater is a progressive metal band formed by three students at the Berklee College of Music in 1985. ... Fates Warning was formed in 1983 by John Arch, Jim Matheos, Victor Arduini, Joe DiBiase, And Steve Zimmerman in Connecticut, USA. The band directly contributed to the establishment of the Progressive Metal genre, With their early works considered by many as very important works defining the genre itself. ... Queensrÿche (pronounced IPA: ) is a heavy/progressive metal band formed in 1981 in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle. ... Symphony X is an American progressive metal band from New Jersey founded in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo. ... Opeth is a progressive death metal band from Sweden. ... Pain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist, chief composer, guitarist, and lead vocalist. ...

Progressive electronic music

Main article: Progressive electronic music

The term "Progressive", in modern dance music styles such as house, techno, trance and breakbeat (also known as breaks), may sometimes refer to the use of new instrumentation within existing styles to create a new sound, or, more often, to the use of arrangements and dynamics to subtly (unlike with genres such as hard house or Hi-NRG) build up to peaks within the track; this technique is extensively used by DJs who beatmatch to creatively build up energy on the dance floor when playing to a crowd. Progressive in the context of modern dance music (occasionally progressive electronic dance music or prog) is a term that includes a collection of electronic dance music genres which draw upon the use of progressive performing techniques and includes the styles of progressive trance, progressive house, progressive techno and progressive breaks. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straighted 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). ... In music, an arrangement refers either to a rewriting of a piece of existing music with additional new material or to a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch, such as a lead sheet. ... In music, dynamics refers to the volume or loudness of the sound or note, in particular to the range from soft (quiet) to loud. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Hi-NRG (High Energy) is a type of electronic dance music which was popular in nightclubs in the early 1980s and remains popular today. ... A disc jockey scratching a record. ... Beatmatching is a mixing technique employed by DJs. ...

See also

• Adult album alternative
• Art rock
• Progressive bluegrass
• Progressive country
• Avant-progressive rock
• Chord progression
• Concept album
• Electronic art music
• Cprog
• Jazz-Rock
• Fusion
• Progg

Adult Album Alternative (also Triple-A, AAA, or adult alternative) is a radio format broadcast mostly on FM. A spin off of the Album-oriented rock format, its roots may have been established sometime during the 60s from what was called underground music and later progressive. ... Art rock is a term used by some to describe rock music that is characterized by ambitious or avant-garde lyrical themes and/or melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic experimentation, often extending beyond standard modern popular music forms and genres, toward influences in jazz, classical, world music or the experimental avant... Progressive bluegrass, also known as newgrass (a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker), is one of two major subgenres of bluegrass music. ... Progressive country is a subgenre of country music started in the late 60s which preceded and led to Outlaw country though it eventually became alternative country in the 1980s. ... Avant-progressive rock is a style of rock music that explores unconventional territory, often incorporating non-standard chord progressions, tempo changes within a piece, odd time signatures, avant garde passages and complex horn and orchestral arrangements. ... A chord progression (also chord sequence and harmonic progression or sequence), as its name implies, is a series of chords played in order. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Electronic music has existed, in various forms, for more than a century. ... Cprog is a sub-genre of music that links progressive music styles with Christian music themes and lyrics. ... Jazz fusion (sometimes referred to simply as fusion) is a musical genre that loosely encompasses the merging of jazz with other styles, particularly rock, funk, R&B, and world music. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Progg ,short for progresiv/progressive, was a left-wing political movement in Sweden that had its roots in the late 1960s, and its golden age in the 1970s. ...

External links

• progressionmag.com