Musical influence

music, lyrics and characterization of gender roles. Gender is a fundamental element of Broadway musical theatre, constitutional to the musical’s architecture. It is essential as a building block for characters, music/lyrics, and stage settings. Broadway musical is a popular art, in which conveys social issues in the female gender from the representations of women in the 1950's to today. The Broadway musical participates in a larger conversation about gender and sexuality because it is a commercial,

By universal, they mean that music exists in every culture. However, the meanings and emotions attached to the music are interpreted differently depending on the listener. People will associate different meanings and feelings with a musical performance based on their cultural upbringing and life experience. When we categorize music, we use terms such as “classical,” “folk” or “popular” to distinguish different types of music. However, using labels is problematic because there can be stereotyping

history of musicals on stage is broad and extensive. There are many different histories of stage musicals: French operettas, Grecian plays, and Roman comedies are just a few. However, I am going to focus on American musicals. The musical that many Americans are familiar with has its roots in the French and Viennese operettas of the 1800s, but take their comic style from American Variety and Minstrel Shows, which led to Vaudeville and Burlesque shows. Known to be the first American musical, “The Black

by the symbolic image of flames that recurred within the context. “I decided to compose an intensely dramatic cycle based on Renaissance love poems employing this fire motive while blending stylistic musical features of the period with contemporary compositional idiom,” says Lauridsen. The musical textures of this composition are replete with Renaissance techniques, including word painting, modality, intricate counterpoint, and bold harmonies unified by what Lauridsen terms the “fire chord,” a

Stacy Wolfe's manifesto offers eleven ideas for studying musicals. Out of the eleven ideas I belive two and nine are the more apparent ideas, but for this discussion I will emphasize on the nineth idea. This idea states that the work is made up of several artists and in order to truly understand this work one must also understand the influences and biographies of this artists. This docuementary put a lot of emphasize on the artist behind the production and reasons why they created a certain character

music culture? Music has played alongside humankind throughout all of history. It has brought together people, creating communities and sub-cultures, acting as a reflection of everything we have experienced and expressed as a race. However, the influence of technologies developed overtime has changed how we experience, ultimately changing culture and how we express ourselves through music. To be able to create the music we hear today has taken thousands of years’ worth of discoveries, development

generations that have been found through written excerpts found in journals of western explorers. Many of these writings were based on frameworks and different biographies under diverse categories. It is very fascinating how this type of music affects and influences the discussion of

Toy Theatre Suite was published when he was only 9. He liked to stage musical productions with his brother and aunt in a toy theatre that he set up at home and idolized Richard Rodgers who composed Oklahoma, The King and I and South Pacific. South Pacific was Lloyd Webber’s favorite of Rodgers’ works.

affected the creation of this art form?) Musical Theatre is a form of theater combing music, songs, and spoken dialog, which can be traced back to the theatre of ancient Greece. The music and dance were included in stage comedies and tragedies during the 5th century BCE. However, the music is disappeared in these eras for a long time, so that they had no real influence on the development of modern musical theatre and film. There is no serious effect of a musical theatre over the society and political

What is culture? What is African culture? What is Jazz music and where did it come from? How can one culture, in a sense, impact the musical landscape of the whole Western world and eventually assimilate into ‘pop’ culture? If we want to truly understand jazz and it’s concepts, we have to navigate through history and explore it’s roots. Simply put, jazz is African American music, and the genre, as we know, formed in New Orleans. However, the origins of jazz started well before then, in Africa. The