Have any progressive rock or similar kind of bands used the sonata form in their music? Anyone know any examples?

I can't remember if they actually used sonata from but British prog rock band Egg used classical forms and were very classically influenced, just a look at the titles of some of their tunes gives this away. Wind Quartet 1, Symphony No 2, Long Piece No 3 and Fugue in D Minor. The latter being a take on the famoue Bach piece.

Also, check out Giles, Giles and Fripp especially Suite No 1. They are quite eclectic but there is definetely a classical influence there.

Weezer's song "Dreamin'" is written in sonata form, although I don't suppose they're "progressive rock or similar".

I said "progressive rock or something similar" basically because I thought if "popular" (=non-classical) music band use sonata form they are almost automatically progressive rock or something like that. I'm just looking for sonata form in non-classical music, so thanks for the example.

I think of all those remixes on youtube - from mozarts requiem to beethoven's 40.


Lots of "singers" got on the radio by just chanting to a remix of classical music -

Swan Lake or Prince Igor come to my mind.

Hey, someone was dissing Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Yeah, it's cheesy, but they lace their music with classical snippets and make it accessible to the masses. I went to a concert around Xmas time...the first half was their Xmas music, but their second half was literally taking classic rock songs and lacing them with music. There was one point where I heard the exposition to the first movement of the Pathetique Sonata and I was about to scream and turned around and started telling people...sadly then realizing no one knew what I was talking about.

The turned the Queen of the Night Aria into heavy metal.

I'm sure there were more snippets I missed or don't remember, but it was really cool...cheesy or not.

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There seems to be a lot of opinions on this thread and it's subject. I will offer this: It seems to me that when hollywood wants to make a band sound good and trully musical, they always through an orchastra behind them!