Music Final

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Who is John Philip Sousa?

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His nickname was "The March King."

He rote over 100 marches.

He directed the US Marine band from 1880 to 1892.

He wrote "The Stars and Stripes Forever."

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Ballad Of The Green Barrets

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Song about military comradeship.

Written by staff sgt Saddler.

Best selling hit of 1966.

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Lowell Mason

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Composer,

music education,

first Sunday school for black children in the us

Marry had a little lamb

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Ghost dance

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Spiritual power of song, dance, prayer

Plains Indians resistance to whites

Songs received through visions

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What ended ghost dance?

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Massacre of wounded knee

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What is a lied?

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German song or poem with regular theme of love.

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How many compositions did Franz Schubert make?

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Over 600 lieders

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What is an aria?

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Solo song in opera or oratorio

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What is a recitative?

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Speech - like singing to convey dialog

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What is opera?

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Characters' internal emotions portrayed through orchestra and vocal music.

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What is the main theme of operas, arias, and recitatives?

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Love in all its aspects.

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What are the three seminal productions?

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Showboat, west side story, Sweeny todd.

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What are the 5 shared characteristics the three seminal productions have in common?

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Book muiscals: Music and dance integrated into story.

Based on literary sources.

Made into movies.

Innovations to broadway.

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Who composed Sweeny todd the demon barber of fleet street?

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Stephen Sundhein

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What is black face minstrelsy?

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Skits, songs, dance, performed by white performers with blackened faces. Parodying African American Culture. "Jim crow."

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Medieval french troubadours and trouveres

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Performed song and poetry dedicated to fin amors:

Unattainable romance of courtly love. Knight pledges love to lady of court married or unmarried.

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Who wrote gretchen am spinnrade? What is it?

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Franz schubert. One of more than 600 lieders he composed.

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What did "The black crook" (1886) do for musical theater in the early years?

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Set the standard for extravagance.

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What did George M. Cohan do for American Musical Theater? Explain.

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He "invented" American Musical theater.

Storyline: ordinary characters, extraordinary moments.

Latest fads in popular culture.

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Who are three outstanding composers in Music and Broadway?

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Irving berlin, Cole porter, george gershwin.

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Who wrote music for showboat?

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Music by Jerome kern.

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Who wrote the book and lyrics for Showboat?

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Oscar Hammerstein.

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What is showboat about?

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Life on a Mississippi riverboat.

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What does showboat deal with?

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Social realism. Contend with social injustice, alcoholism, and marital infedelity.

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How was showboat a new kind of musical theater?

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Music and drama intergrated, characters developed through music, music stops normal time.

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What musical styles did showboat use?

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Spirituals, blues and jazz, popular music theater, operatic melodies.

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What musicals did Rodgers and Hammerstein write?

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Oklahoma, carousel, south pacific, the king and i, sound of music.

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Who wrote music for west side story?

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Leonard bernstein

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Who wrote west side story's lyrics?

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Stephen soundheim.

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What was west side story and updated version of?

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Romeo and juliet.

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What did the quintet, finale to act 1 from west side story consist of?

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An ensemble finale with roots in 18th century comic.

Quintet: Jets, sharks, anita, Tony and Maria sing about "tonight."

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How does the music from titanic reflect social levels?

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Elegant chamber music: upper class

Irish dance music: lower class

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What is diegetic and non-diegetic sounds?

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Diegetic: sounds of the characters real world.

Non-diegetic: composed musical score, inaudible to film characters.

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Two examples of leitmotifs in film. What is it?

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Jaws, Starwars, characters have own theme.

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Who is John williams?

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A composer and conductor. Won 5 academy awards, 20 grammies, 4 golden globes. Hella famous films

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What films did John Williams write music for?

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Jaws, starwars, superman, et, home alone, Gilligan's island.

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What did 19th century motion pictures consist of?

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Short, silent films with live entertainment.

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What did music do to the experience of 19th century silent films? What did it consist of?

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Added noises, emotions, made more real.

Improvised organ or piano with musical queue sheets (first sheet music/sound track.)

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What is "The Jazz singer" (1927)

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First feature length talkie, focused on music itself, was remade 3 times.

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When was the golden Era of Hollywood films?

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1930-1950's

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What did race films include?

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African American musicians in lead roles.

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What was Disney's first full length animated film musical?

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Snow white and the seven dwarfs

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What is bollywood? What is essential to bollywood?

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India: world's largest film industry. Song and dance essential.

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Who did the music for lord of the rings?

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Howard shore.

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What are the origins of the tango?

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Iberian, Italian, and African traditions. Preformed in bars and dance halls of Buenos aires, 1890s. Argentinian culture.

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What are bandoneons?

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Button style accordians

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What are the characteristics of the tango dance?

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Couples dance. Strong broad steps, holds partner in abrazo (embrace) position. Choreographed seduction.

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What are instruments are used in the tango? Early and later.

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Early: Violin, flute, guitar, accordin.

Later: small orchestra, up to four bandoneons.

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Who is Astor piazzolla?

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Most important tango musician of second half of 20th century. Argentinian composer, bandoneon player.

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What is capoeira? Origin?

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Brazilian dance/sport that developed on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Choreographed combat.

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What is a roda?

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Capoeira ring of capoeristas that sing, play percussion instruments and clap.

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What is baamaya? Characteristics, costumes?

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Traditional dance styles of North Ghana. Hips swivel (like the twist), often for funerals before dawn.

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What do baamaya costumes consist of?

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Men dressed as women. Jingles on ankles.

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European dance in the renaisance.

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Was a required social skill. Footwork was notated in dance manuals.

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What was orchesography? Who wrote it?

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Notated footwork on European renaissance dance written by thoinot arbeau.

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What is a branle?

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A dance in groups in line or circle. European renissance.

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Where did classical ballet begin?

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Academic Royale de danse (louis xiv 1661)

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What was classical ballet a combination of?

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Music, dance, and theater.

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When was classical ballet used? Early and later.

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Early: between acts of plays.

Later: incorporated into operas.

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What ballet occurred in the mid 19th century? Where was it centered?

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The independent genre of story ballet. centered in russia.

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Who is Marius petipa?

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Choreographer of story ballet.

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Who wrote the rite of spring?

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Stravinsky

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What was the "rite of spring?"

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Music by Stravinsky. Choreography by nijinsky. Radical choreography, lost choreography reconstructed in 1980.

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Modern dance was what by americans?

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Restrictions of ballet rejected by American dancers/choreographers.

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What did isodora duncan do for modern dance?

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Used Greek inspired costumes, liberated the female body, initiated modern dance movements.

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What did Martha gram do for modern dance?

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Profound influence on modern dance. Significant 20th century composers.

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What is the standard program for a symphony orchestra?

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1. Overture or "light" composition

2. Concerto instrumental soloist + orchestra.

3. Intermission

4. Symphony.

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Who is Antonio Vivaldi?

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Called the red priest.

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Who wrote "la primavera?" What does it consist of and dipict? What form is it in? Define form.

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Vivaldi, 4 concertos from the four Seasons that dipict a poem, ritornello form (orchestral refrain alternates with solo).

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How many compositions did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart write? What styles?

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Over 600, all styles.

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What was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart life like?

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Last 3 years of his life was tough due to war but he still wrote many compositions.

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What are the standard four movements of a symphony?

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Fast, slow, dance, fast.

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What is sonata form?

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Exposition, development, recapitulation.

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What is chamber music for? Who played it and where; early and later?

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Small instrumental ensembles.

Early: amateurs in private settings

Later: professionals, small concert halls.

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What instruments make up chamber ensembles?

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String quartet: 2 Violins, cello, viola.

Piano trio: Violin, cello, piano.

Solo instruments, or solo + piano.

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Who is Franz Joseph haydn?

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"Father of symphony," jokester.

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What is rondo form, who is associated with it?

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A-b-a-c-a. Haydn.

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Who wrote liturgies de cristal? What context? Inspiration? What type oof music?

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Oliver messianen. Response to ww2, written while a POW, inspired by biblical apocalypse in book of revalations, testament of Composers spiritual faith. Chamber music.

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Who wrote Angus de: from war requiem. What is it? What does the tenor soloist sing? What does the chorus sing?

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Benjamin britten, mass for the dead, poetry by infantry man Wilfred owen.

Tenor soloist: Owens poem

Chorus: Agnus de

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Who wrote threnody for the victims of hiroshima? Characteristics?

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Penderecki

pitch clusters, dissonant, close together pitches. Bridge strings, finger tapping, unusual bowing.

Melody, harmony, meter all eliminated. Measured by clock time not beat.

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What did "the black crook" do for early broadway music?

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"Sold sex" grandiose performance. Set standard for extravogance.

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Who is george m. Cohan?

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Invented American music theater. His story lines featured ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Used latest fads in popular culture.

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What is "The broadway melody?"

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First feature length movie to fully integrate music, dance, and plot. Beginning of the golden age of movie musicals.

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Who were some of the important stars from the golden Era of Hollywood film?

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Mikey rooney, Frank sinatra, Marilyn manroe, Esther williams.

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Who is Marni nixon?

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Famous playback singer nicknamed "the ghostess with the mostest" sang in the king and i, my fair lady, west side story.

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What is the plot of singing in the rain and why is it ironic? Who?

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It was centered around vocal dubbing and had a playback singer Betty noyes.

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Where was classical ballet centered?

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Paris, then russia.

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Who is Marius petipa?

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French ballet master. Choreographed over 50 ballets.

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Who is diaghilev?

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Formed ballet russes (Russian ballet)

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Who is Aron copland?

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Composed on many styles, Wrote rodeo, original melodies sounded folk in character.