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Tin Pan Alley
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NYC centered publishers and songwriters of popular music in late 19th c to early 20th c
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Minstrelsy vs. Follies
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minstrelsy: Racy/saucy
Follies (broadway): spectacle, huge sets, Ziegfield girl, roadway stories don't make sense |
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vaudville
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professional talent show
no story also |
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Kern
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Showboat: racial prejudice & tragic ending
Showboat: "After the Ball" written by Hammerstein |
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broadway
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revue (bunch of random songs)
book musical (some kinda story) integrated musical (songs propel story forward) e..g Showboat |
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Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): English opera
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revived English Opera (so far only Purcell)
based on great British literary works: Billy Budd <-> Nathan Gunn |
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Britten: Aim
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increase national literacy & awareness
create distance from avant garde |
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Britten and Pears
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Peter Pears = Britten's partner + tenor singer
wrote much stuff for Pears |
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Britten: War Requiem (oratorio)
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vocal pacifist: not admired for this
commissioned to write for reconsecration of cathedral oratorio -> IN ENGLISH TRITONE MOTIVE Wilfred Owen's poem intersped in orchestration: - full orch + solo soprano, - chamber ensemble w solo tenor/bass - organ w voice choir |
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Krysztof Pendeveski (1933): Threnody for victims of Hiroshima
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originally titled: 8min 26s
- marketing trick <-> ref to John Cage Threnody - poem for mourning |
