orchestral pop
{{Short description|Pop music with orchestras}}
{{redirect|Symphonic pop|the rock music subgenre sometimes called "symphonic pop"|Chamber pop|the progressive music genre sometimes called "symphonic pop"|Progressive pop}}
{{Infobox music genre
| name = Orchestral pop
| other_names = {{hlist|Symphonic pop|chamber pop}}
| stylistic_origins = * Pop music
| cultural_origins = United States and United Kingdom in the 1960s
| derivatives = * Baroque pop{{sfn|Hawkins|2015|p=193}}
- Shibuya-kei{{cite web|last1=Joffe|first1=Justin|title=The Day J-Pop Ate Itself: Cornelius and the Timeless Freakiness of 'Fantasma'|url=http://observer.com/2016/06/the-day-j-pop-ate-itself-cornelius-and-the-timeless-freakiness-of-fantasma/|website=The New York Observer|date=June 13, 2016}}
| other_topics = * Chamber pop
}}
Orchestral pop is pop music that has been arranged and performed by a symphonic orchestra. It is sometimes used interchangeably with the terms symphonic pop and chamber pop.{{cite news|last1=Salmon|first1=Ben|date=May 25, 2007|title=Classic combo|work=The Bulletin|url=http://www.bendbulletin.com/slideshows/1516497-151/classic-combo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610031425/http://www.bendbulletin.com/slideshows/1516497-151/classic-combo|archive-date=June 10, 2016}}
History
During the 1960s, pop music on radio and in both American and British film moved away from refined Tin Pan Alley to more eccentric songwriting and incorporated reverb-drenched rock guitar, symphonic strings, and horns played by groups of properly arranged and rehearsed studio musicians.{{cite news|last=Pareles|first=Jon|author-link=Jon Pareles|date=October 31, 2008|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/arts/music/01pupp.html?_r=0|title=Orchestral Pop, the Way It Was (More or Less)|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=July 4, 2013}} The rapid development of multitrack recording in the mid 1960s also drove the ability of producers to create recordings with ever more complex and sonically sophisticated arrangements. Pop arrangers and producers worked orchestral pop into their artists' releases, including George Martin and his strings arrangements with the Beatles, and John Barry for his scores to the James Bond films.{{sfn|Lanza et al.|2008|p=167}} Also in the 1960s, a number of orchestral settings were made for songs written by the Beatles, including symphonic performances of "Yesterday" by orchestras. Some symphonies were specifically founded for playing predominantly popular music, such as the Boston Pops Orchestra.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/orchestral-easy-listening-ma0000002765|title=Orchestral/Easy Listening|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=July 4, 2013}} Nick Perito was one of orchestral pop's most accomplished{{according to whom|date=May 2016}} arrangers, composers, and conductors.{{sfn|Lanza|1994|p=230}}
According to Chris Nickson, the "vital orchestral pop of 1966" was "challenging, rather than vapid, easy listening".{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ykEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11|title=Best New Music|access-date=July 4, 2013|journal=CMJ New Music Monthly|last=Nickson|first=Chris|page=11|date=February 1998}} Spin magazine refers to Burt Bacharach and the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson as "gods" of orchestral pop.{{cite magazine|title=Reviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iemUgvxmQcYC&pg=PA100|date=October 2006|magazine=Spin|issn=0886-3032}} In Nickson's opinion, the "apex" of orchestral pop lay in singer Scott Walker, explaining that "in his most fertile period, 1967–70, he created a body of work that was, in its own way, as revolutionary as the Beatles'. He took the ideas of [Henry] Mancini and Bacharach to their logical conclusion, essentially redefining the concept of orchestral pop."{{cite journal|last=Nickson|first=Chris|title=The Sons of Scott Walker|journal=CMJ New Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pCkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20|date=November 1997|publisher=CMJ New Music Monthly|pages=20, 22|issn=1074-6978}}
In the 21st century, few artists explore the genre, with the most notable being English supergroup The Last Shadow Puppets (formed by Arctic Monkeys frontman, Alex Turner and solo artist Miles Kane), and American artist Cody Fry.{{Cite web |title=Cody Fry {{!}} Artist {{!}} GRAMMY.com |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/Cody-Fry/38083 |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=www.grammy.com}}
Ork-pop
{{Main|Chamber pop}}
Ork-pop is a 1990s movement which took its name from orchestral pop.{{cite magazine|last=Rosen|first=Craig|title=Building A Perfect Ork-Pop Masterpiece|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pw0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA92|date=May 25, 1996|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|magazine=Billboard|pages=1, 92|issn=0006-2510}} Leading artists of the movement included Yum-Yum, The High Llamas, Richard Davies, Eric Matthews, Spookey Ruben, Witch Hazel, and Liam Hayes (Plush). Matthews, who partnered with Davies for duo Cardinal, was considered a leading figure in the style.{{cite magazine|last=Morris|first=Chris|title=Sub Pop Feels the Time Is Right for Eric Matthews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3QkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10|date=August 23, 1997|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|magazine=Billboard|page=10|issn=0006-2510|access-date=August 27, 2016|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727203233/https://books.google.com/books?id=3QkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10|url-status=live}}
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book|last=Lanza|first=Joseph|year=1994|title=Elevator Music: a Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=0-312-10540-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/elevatormusicsur00lanz}}
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{{Easy listening}}