Panic! At The Disco is perhaps the most commercially successful band of today associated with Baroque Pop. The band's members are equally capable at playing several instruments including the piano, violin, viola, accordion, trumpet, and French horn, to name a few. Arcade Fire in particular uses a very large variety of instruments. Past issues of The Cut have reviewed albums and concerts from artists such as Arcade Fire, Of Montreal, and Vampire Weekend, who have time and time again included a Baroque feel in their music. “Yesterday” included a string quartet in its recording back in 1965, and has gone on to become officially the most recorded song in the history of Pop music, with over 3000 cover versions to date.Ĭertainly, the genre has persisted since then, with many of today’s bands championing that same style. Perhaps the most famous early example from that era is “Yesterday” by the Beatles. This style of music has its origins in the 1960s, with the Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach commonly cited as being amongst the pioneers of the genre. Artists have also been known to use samples of famous classical pieces, integrating those pieces with their own original music. Artists record their tracks with instruments not usually associated with rock, although more recently synthesizers have been doing the job as well. One of the genres becoming more and more well known is Baroque Pop, which refers to Rock music that includes elements of Classical music. Hence the subdivision of Pop into various different genres, such as Avant-Pop and Electropop.
Over the years, the word "pop" has become increasingly inadequate as a music genre, due to the many different types present in the world. The Cut - Carnegie Mellon's First Music Magazine Genre Profile: Baroque Pop Aaron Ong