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A Day at the Races

Disciplines:
rock music
rock music/glam rock

Summary

Queen's 1976 album notable for beginning and ending with a version of the Shepard tone.

Core Contribution

Demonstrates the Shepard tone's application in mainstream rock — the album's bookending Shepard tone implies music with no beginning or end.

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

British arena rock

Allied Works

A Night at the OperaEchoes

Contemporaries & Peers

A Night at the OperaWish You Were Here

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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