My Favorite Piece of Music from Module 5 Written by: Aryn Malone My favorite piece of music by far was "Fanfare for the Common Man" performed by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. The band ELP consists of Keith Emerson who plays polyphonic synthesizer, Greg Lake who plays the 8 string Alembic bass, and Carl Palmer who plays the drums.The newer version of "Fanfare for the Common Man" was released in 1977. I chose the version performed by ELP (Emerson, Lake, and Palmer), because their version was more upbeat with a faster tempo. I have always enjoyed Classic Rock in general for the most part, but this song really teed off with me. The opening and closing of the song was identical with the original version composed by Aaron Copland. Aaron Copland originally composed this song in 1942, but agreed to let the band ELP use the song only because they used the same beginning and end as he originally used. One difference between the two songs is that instead of a trumpet they used a Yamaha GX-1 which is a synthesizer organ. ELP's version of the song is just about twice as long as the original version too. The newer version of this song has been used as an opening theme song for …show more content…
A lot depends on what they do with what they take, and naturally since I have a copyright on such material, they're not able to take it without my permission; so that in each case, where I have given my permission, there was something that attracted me about the version that they perform, which made me think I'd like to allow them to release it. Of course, I always prefer my own version best, but (laughs) what they do is really around the piece, you might say, rather than a literal transposition of the piece, and they're a gifted