Musical form

How boring would life be without musical theatre entertainment? I can answer that—boring. Entertainment in this industry has proved the world that musical theatre is just as amusing as a football event played on the weekends. Acquiring a job in this field can be difficult, but with hard work it can be done. Musical theatre has been around for a long time and has changed over decades. Entertainment in this industry started in the nineteenth century and still thrives today. It started off…

Musicians Vs. Synthesizers: The Musical Theatre Debate There has been an ongoing debate over the issue of new technological innovations overtaking many art forms to make them obsolete when the art still has worth in modern society. Music has not been immune this confrontation. An issue that many producers have faced resulted from the introduction of synthesizers into music production and playback. This new innovation has many positive, as well as negative, aspects brings to the music industry.…

The Ruth Page Center Of the Arts brought Broadway to Chicago as the Porchlight productions presented the musical Merrily We Roll Along, with book by George Furth, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. This rendition was beautifully directed by Michael Weber, musically directed by Aaron Behnam and the musical staging was done by Christopher Pazdernik. This story about the talented composer Franklin Shephard, based on the 1934 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, leaves the audience…

Singing in the Rain is “backstage” musical filled with comedy, songs and romance that was released in 1951 but set in the late 1920’s. It was one of the last films to be produced during the profitable golden age of the studio system. The film employs the typical characteristics a Hollywood musical by relying on superstar names and contagious dance numbers. The movie incorporates an additional level of parody into its wistful plot that is centered on the disruptive shift from silent movies to…

continues until the Eb4 grace note in measure six. This is primarily consistent in the bottom staff with the exceptions of measures five and six where the rows switch staffs. The switching of staffs occurs in each iteration of the rows and its various forms at one point or another. Wagner also creates an elision with the last note of one row and the first note of another. The second movement to Variations for Piano is a canon because of the entrance of one note and the response of a related…

learned the same basic amount of literacy in our life. In cases such as mine, I have not only taken it upon myself to learn the basics of literacy. But those of music as well. I guess you can say I’ve become a sort of “treble” maker in my life with musical literacy. My cliché journey all started when I was in middle school and let 's just say I was nowhere near to the music nerd that I have become. I was probably on the top three worst kids in the whole school. If time travel were…

One of my favorite songs is “Stay Alive” by Jose Gonzalez. The song features a variety of musical elements that makes this song very pleasing to the ear. The song begins with the sounds of a city and of a car starting. The song starts to feature a soft but consistent rhythm, that is recognizable throughout most of the song. The gentle “ticking” sound is similar to that of a clock and is repeated and consistent. Then the piano and vocals begin, the sound of the piano and the singer are both very…

As Kathrin grew up, she had many musical impressions from her surroundings and hobbies. Some of them I will get into in the main points of this essay. In this essay I will be looking at Kathrin’s musical identity’s evolution out from the traditions she was raised with, and acquired through her life and also the sense of how the musical influences affected her then and now. I will also be looking at different repertoires as examples to further my explanations and evidence to how Kathrin was…

One of Musical Theatre’s most loved productions, Pirates of Penzance, has delighted and enthralled audiences all around the world since its first production in 1879. In Opera Australia’s 2006 performance of this Gilbert and Sullivan classic they showed that even after a century, this production was timeless, a true testament to the genius of her creators. Pirates of Penzance is about a young man named Frederic (David Hobson) who has been wrongly apprenticed to a band of pirates, led by the…

from through the eyes of the composer. His essay creates the foundation for an scientifical musical appreciation, beginning with basics as harmony, melodies , and pattern. It also has implicitly caused me to start asking some questions when I'm listening to a piece of music. Aaron Copland classifies and discusses three levels of listening to music : sensuous place, expressive plane, and the sheerly musical plane. I believe by this machinery separation, Copland succeeds in classifying difficult…