2018/03/29 by Naphtali Wagner · 1 citation
Psychology · Arts and Humanities · #Psychedelics and Drug Studies #Music History and Culture #Musicology and Musical Analysis #Classicism #Pepper #Art #Art history #Horticulture #Biology
paper · doi:10.4324/9781315608532-7
openalex publication_date 2018/03/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/25
This chapter assumes that many fans who had been waiting impatiently for the Beatles&s; new album thought for the first few seconds that the clerk had accidentally wrapped up a classical album. Classical and psychedelic music delimit the eclectic, multistylistic and multigenre nature of Sgt. Pepper. Psychedelia, in contrast, is associated with altered states of consciousness – hallucinations, dreams, or the supernatural. The Beatles used musical instruments and ensembles associated with the classical world. The selection of instruments and the presence of classical soloists in the Beatles&s; recording studio have led to an abundance of oft-repeated anecdotes; this is not the place to mention them. If the songs on Revolver constitute a sort of psychedelic-classical mixture, on Sgt. Pepper the psycheclassical synthesis is already at its best. The chapter suggests that in the Beatles&s; music &s;classical&s; and &s;psychedelic&s; are not separate entities but interactive ones.