Musical influence

Unstoppable Musical Theatre Duo When most people think of people that have had the most impact on musical theater a few names come to mind like Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jerome Kern, and of course, Rodgers and Hammerstein. This duo put on some of the greatest and most memorable musical theater pieces of all time. Their techniques and composition skills are still taken seriously to this day and used on a regular basis by composers. When Mark Lubbock speaks of Rodgers and Hammerstein in American Musical Theatre:

music making. The book is broken into three parts: children at musical play, conversations with children about music, and children’s musical education. Campbell’s study focuses on what children musically are and what they musically become through parents and teachers. Campbell did not appear biased in her approach to this study. Her focus was to understand children’s musical culture. There were some questions and critiques of how musical education could benefit from seeing children

evolving. The Japanese have adopted many different musical instruments from many different regions and turned them into the centerpiece of their music. As the Japanese culture has evolved their musical instruments and their style of music has too. Japans musical culture is vastly different from what is was a couple hundred years ago but still showcases their identity. Today Japan has one of the largest musical industries and has a huge influence on music around the world. The cultural background

How is the history of European and Arabic cultural contact reveal through musical characteristics in places such as Spain and Bulgaria? In Spain, the authentic flamenco had just a singer. It had a strained type of timbre and melisma was used a lot. It shows that there was Arabic influence because they also had that type of style. And because they also used a guitar as accompaniment, it showed there was European influence because they liked harmony. Bulgarian music also had harmonies but with voices

Hairspray, The musical, uses elaborate colors, patterned dresses, and accessories portray the timeframe of this event. The excessive use of hairspray for a bouffant hairstyle also identifies the era of this musical. Music in the 60s evolved around blues, folk and rock ‘n’ roll which is what the musical is constructed from. Hairspray explores race, entailing racial integration and racial segregation in the suburban area of Baltimore in the 60s. The struggle to embrace and accept cultural differences

Musical Theatre in America Before the 20th century, people used music and dancing to tell stories, but it had nothing to do with developing musical theater. Musical theatre is a type of play that tells a story through songs, spoken dialogue, and dancing. During the 20th century, there was a lot of change going on in Musical Theatre. Musicals are different from other types of stage works such as opera because a musical would not be a musical without the music, story line, or dancing. European operetta

the movie will portray Los Angles in this dream like idea. This musical presents two characters struggling to work towards their dreams in this city and instead romanticizes the nickname for the city. Damien Chazelle crafts a dreamy love story with a genre that has almost been absent from Hollywood. La La Land presents itself as being nostalgic for the old classical Hollywood musicals while also modernizing the idea of a movie musical for today’s audience. Throughout the film all these different

night of December 27, 1927 the musical Show Boat opens (Laufe 475). The show ends in silence; no applause or a standing ovation. There was not even a curtain call. (Sheed 120) Producer Florenz Ziegfeld thought that the show had failed. (Sheed 120) What he did not know that night was that Show Boat was to go on to be one of the most influential shows in American musical theatre. Show Boat revolutionized American musical theatre by changing the setting of the average musical theatre work to America to

parts of your brain and how it is developed. Music can really help change the way your brain is developed as well as the way you process information. In an article on Time, Melissa Locker talks about how being involved in a music class or playing a musical instrument can have major benefits all around cognitively. Locker was in contact with a woman, Nina Kraus, who conducted an experiment with her team at Northwestern about how being actively involved and engaged with music, whether in a class setting

Jukebox musicals began in film and later shifted to theatre. They had begun to make theatre more popular with the public, which had begun to gravitate towards film and music. By combining the two, they gain some of the same as well as a whole new audience. I will discuss how this came to be by speaking of the shift that occurred. But what exactly is a jukebox musical? Well, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a musical as “(n) a film or theatrical production typically of a sentimental or humorous