Concert stages and Theatre stages: Great for Rock Music
Concert stage
A concert stage is a venue where a live performance is done, usually of music or theater, before an audience. The principal reason for a concert stage is to allow for the opportunity for musicians and stage actors to perform in front of an audience. Concert stages provide the musicians a platform by which they can begin to expose themselves to the public. Concert stages can be indoors, outdoors, or even be readily assembled and disassembled in different locations where concerts and shows will take place. The concert stage is often elevated allowing for audiences to better see the artist or musician playing his music onstage. The concert stage is made in such an elevated way to allow for the music being played to effectively drift out above the heads of the audience during a show to be properly heard, and to allow the audience to properly see who is playing it. A concert hall is a cultural building, which serves as performance venue.
Theatre stages
In theatre, the stage (sometimes referred to as the deck in stagecraft) is a designated space for the performance of theatrical productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience. As an architectural feature, the stage may consist of a platform (often raised) or series of platforms. In some cases, these may be temporary or adjustable but in theaters and other buildings devoted to such productions, the stage is often a permanent feature. There are four types of stages that vary as to the usage and the relation of the audience to them. The most common form found in the West is the proscenium stage. In this type, the audience is located on one side of the stage with the remaining sides hidden and used by the performers and technicians. Thrust stages are similar to proscenium stages but with a performance area that extends into the audience space so that the audience is on three sides.
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1950s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music. The sound of rock often revolves around the electric guitar, a back beat laid down by a rhythm section of electric bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as Hammond organ, piano, or, since the 1970s, synthesizers. Along with the guitar or keyboards, saxophone and blues-style harmonica are sometimes used as soloing instruments. In its \"purest form\", it \"has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody.\" In the late 1960s and early 1970s, rock music developed different subgenres. When it was blended with folk music it created folk rock, with blues to create blues-rock and with jazz, to create jazz-rock fusion. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences from soul, funk, and Latin music.