New Born – Muse (sheet music)
Muse
Muse is a British rock band formed in 1994, in Teignmouth, Devon. Since its formation, its members are: Matt Bellamy (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Christopher Wolstenholme (bass, backing vocals) and Dominic Howard (drums).
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After the release of Black Holes and Revelations, Morgan Nicholls began collaborating with the band during live performances, taking charge of keyboards, samples, some choirs, rarely bass and lately second guitar.
The band is known for its extravagant live shows, for fusing musical genres such as alternative rock, space rock, progressive rock, symphonic rock and electronica, also for Bellamy’s atypical interests in global conspiracy, revolution, astrophysics, alien life, ghosts, theology and the apocalypse; themes that are reflected in his lyrics.
To this day, Muse has released nine studio albums: Showbiz (1999), Origin of Symmetry (2001). Absolution (2003), Black Holes and Revelations (2006), The Resistance (2009), The 2nd Law (2012), Drones (2015), Simulation Theory (2018) and Will of the People (2022).
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They have also released three live albums: Hullabaloo Soundtrack (2001), which also contains a compilation of B-sides; HAARP (2008), which documents the band’s performances at Wembley Stadium in 2007; Live at Rome Olympic Stadium (2013), a performance by the band in front of over 60,000 people in Italy; Simulation Theory film filmed in August 2019 in two presentations at the O2 Arena, and after a year, it was released in August 2020 for the IMAX cinema.
Black Holes and Revelations earned Muse a Mercury Prize nomination and third place on NME’s Best Albums of the Year list in 2006. Muse has also won a number of awards throughout her career, including five MTV Europe Music Awards. Awards, six Q Awards, eight NME Awards, two Brit Awards (awarded for ‘Best British Live Act’ twice), an MTV Video Music Award, four Kerrang! Awards and an American Music Award.
MUSE were also nominated for five Grammy Awards, where they won in the best rock album category in 2011, for their fifth studio album The Resistance (2009), being also winners of the same award for Drones in 2016. Considered one of the bands of most popular and successful rock band of the last two decades, as of June 2016 they have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Part of the success of Muse resides in the great interpretative and compositional capacity of its members. It is a band known for encompassing and mixing various genres and musical currents.
His original influences include artists such as Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Rage Against The Machine, Rush, Deftones, The Smashing Pumpkins, Jeff Buckley and Jimi Hendrix; in addition to the influence of classical composers, especially those of the romantic era, such as Sergei Rachmaninov, Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin. Additionally, Latin music has had a considerable influence on the band’s sound. Subsequently, the band has been influenced by groups such as U2, Depeche Mode, INXS and Queen.
Several critics made comparisons between the sound of Muse with the sound of the English band Radiohead, especially Bellamy’s voice. Although he has stated that he ‘doesn’t really like’ the music of the Oxford band and attributes the similarities to the fact that he and the Radiohead singer are notably influenced by musician Jeff Buckley.
The newspaper La República published in June 2013 the clear musical influence and style of Radiohead on bands created in the 90s. Notably, Muse is almost ten years younger than the Oxford band, even Matthew Bellamy tried to imitate the voice of Thom Yorke, but both have different voice registers. While Bellamy’s tone is sharper and more hurtful in the dramatic Tenor trait, Yorke’s has much more nuances (denotes regret, anger, nostalgia) and fine expressions in the Tenor trait, for which reason the debate is always open.
Matt Bellamy, who usually leads lead vocals, has been shown to have a forceful voice in both the chest voice and head voice registers. His falsetto reminds critics of great rock music vocalists like Jeff Buckley and Freddie Mercury.