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"No Place Like London" from Sweeney Todd |
Sondheim |
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burlesque |
comic musical parodies of serious plays, operas, or dance. |
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minstrel |
synonymous with Blackface |
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What was the first "talkie" |
The Jazz Singer |
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Operetta |
- lighthearted, comic, with catchy tunes. - helped shape early Broadway productions |
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Who gets credit for inventing American Musical Theater? |
George M. Cohan |
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First piece of American Musical Theater? |
The Black Crook (1866) --> scantily clad women |
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Three dominating Broadway composers |
1. Irving Berlin 2. Cole Porter 3. George Gershwin |
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Significance of Kern/Hammerstein's Showboat? |
signified American musical theater's coming of age |
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Quintet, Finale to Act I from West Side Story |
Music by Leonard Bernstein Lyrics by Soundheim |
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Ride in the Sky |
John Williams |
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Quintet, Finale to West Side Story facts |
- Jets, Sharks, Anita, Tony, and Maria - A A' B A - Polyphonic |
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What is a book musical? |
Music and dance integrated into a story; based on older literary sources |
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What is a revue? |
a series of sketches, usually comedic in nature |
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What is the process of the director and a composer watching a movie to decide where music should be? |
spotting |
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Diegetic sounds |
sounds we and the characters hear |
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non-diegetic sounds |
sounds only we hear (film scores) |
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First American film to have a full orchestral score |
Birth of a Nation, Joseph Carl Breil |
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Metropolis |
Huppertz |
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What is a leitmotif? |
Song themes representative of characters, places, and things |
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What are tercetos? |
Early tango ensembles; consisted of violin, flute, and either guitar or accordion |
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Who was the most important musician of the second half of the twentieth century? |
Astor Piazzolla |
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What instrument was Astor Piazzolla known for playing? |
bandoneón |
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Libertango |
16-bar form repetitive and simple for dancing |
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berimbau |
one-stringed musical bow used for capoeira |
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The father of modern capoeira |
Mestre Bimba |
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What is Baamaya and who practices it? |
A traditional dance from Ghana; practiced by the Dagbamba |
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What does "baamaya" mean? |
"the fields are wet" |
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Washerwoman's Branle |
Thoinot Arbeau |
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Common character types in Ballet |
Noble Demi Comique |
