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The first Blockbuster American operetta, Song associated with show "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life"

Naughty Marietta

She isn't on Santa's nice list.

Name the 4 musical song forms.

1) AAA Strophic Form


2) Verse/Chorus


3) Tin Pan Alley


4) Pop Music Verse/Chorus

Has to do with how the songs are written

What is the function of the bridge?

Takes the listener to a new musical place which sounds inevitable both in its arrival and its return to the final A section

NAME THIS COMPOSER:


-Difficult to work with; hated when singers did jazz arrangements


-Influenced by Victor Herbert


-Member of ASCAP

Jerome Kern

Show Boat...

NAME THIS COMPOSER/LYRICIST:


-Could not read or write music


-͞ Simple Melody" from Watch Your Step was first counterpoint song introduced in American Musical Theatre


-Opened his own theatre to have Music Box Revues

Irving Berlin

White Christmas...

NAME THIS COMPOSER:


-"Swanee" (Famous Al Jolson song)


-"Rhapsody in Blue" - first rhapsody written for solo instrument and jazz orchestra


-1st composer featured on Time magazine

George Gershwin

Of Thee I Sing, Porgy and Bess...

Why was Porgy and Bess (1935) considered to be a folk opera?

It didn’t try to provide authentic Southern plantation music but rather his version of it to make it all one cohesive piece instead of fragments from original folk songs

NAME THIS COMPOSER/LYRICIST:


-Born wealthy


-Wrote Yale's (still existing) fight song


-Horseback riding accident, legs amputated


-Dirty lyrics and sexual innuendo

Cole Porter

Your fave...Anything Goes