Pocket symphony
Song with extended form
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A pocket symphony is a song with extended form.[2] The term was popularized by English journalist Derek Taylor, who used it to describe the Beach Boys' 1966 single "Good Vibrations".[3][4] (The description of a "pocket" symphony had appeared in print since as early as 1928.[5])
Attributions
Popular music
- The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations" (1966)
- The Beatles – "A Day in the Life" (1967)[6]
- T. Rex – "Telegram Sam" (1971)[7]
- Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)[8]
- Paul McCartney & Wings – "Band on the Run" (1973)[9]
- Queen – "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975)[10]
- Radiohead - "Paranoid Android" (1997)[11]
- My Chemical Romance - "Welcome to the Black Parade" (2006)[12]
- Weezer - "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" (2008)[13]
Classical compositions
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik[14]
- Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 12[15]