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Proto-prog (short for proto-progressive [1]) is the earliest work associated with the first wave of progressive rock music, [2] [3] known then as "progressive pop". [4] Such musicians were influenced by modern classical and other genres usually outside of traditional rock influences.
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Early groups who exhibited progressive features are retroactively described as "proto-prog". The Canterbury scene, originating in the late 1960s, denotes a subset of progressive rock bands who emphasised the use of wind instruments, complex chord changes and long improvisations.
Proto-prog (short for proto-progressive) is the earliest work associated with the first wave of progressive rock music, known then as "progressive pop". Such musicians were influenced by modern classical and other genres usually outside of traditional rock influences.
In can be helpful to describe the development of progressive rock and any of it’s genres on a song and album basis by a stage model including research, ideation, conceptualization, realization, commercialization and operation. The three former stages define proto-prog, the latter fullblown prog.
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Proto-prog is an inmature stage of prog, its maturity indicated by its time-dependency or development over time until full-blown prog albums circa 1969-1970.
Progressive metal (often shortened to prog metal or prog) is a broad fusion music genre melding heavy metal and progressive rock, combining the loud "aggression" [1] and amplified guitar-driven sound of the former with the more experimental, cerebral or quasi-classical compositions of the latter.
