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Who wrote No, No Nanette (1925), analyse

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Musical by: Frank Mandel
Composer: Vincent Youmens
Librettist: Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach
Jazz Styles and Tin Pan Alley inspired
Song: Tea for Two
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What is crooning

singing

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It is a singing style that came up with the invention of microphones, this eliminated a need for resonance and dynamic, this developed a new tonality in singing.

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Jerome Kern (1885-1945)

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American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

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Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960)

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American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and director in the musical theatre.

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What was beneficial about Kern and Hammerstein’s partnership

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Integrated musicals, they both believed that songs should carry the action of a play and be more apart of the drama.

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What was a show from the Kern and Hammerstein partnership

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Showboat (1926)
Operetta/Musical Play
There was use of leitmotifs
Set in late 1800's
32 bar, AABA song forms.
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Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)

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Was one of the most significant American composers of the 20th century, and his compositions had a significant impact on popular music

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Lorenz Hart (1895-1943)

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Lyricist in the Rodgers and Hart partnership.

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Explain the Rodgers and Hart duo

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They are a duo that are not apart of ‘tin pan alley’
‘A Connecticut yankee,’ 1929.
- Jazz standards
‘On your Toes,’ 1936.

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Who wrote ‘On your Toes’? 1936.

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Rodgers and Hart

  • It was innovative because it incorporated ballet, where the dance told a story and was apart of the dramatic action.
  • George Balanchine was the choreographer.
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Who are the Gershwin Brothers?

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George Gershwin - Piano
Ira Gershwin - Lyrics
Pluggers, promoting songs.

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Gershwin Brothers: Porgy & Bees

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Only performed by African Americans

Included many Jazz standards.

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Noel Coward (1899-1973)

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English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit and personal style.
Song - Mrs Worthington/Don’t put your daughter on the stage.

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Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

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American composer and lyricist. Worked for Hollywood and broadway.
Works (songs) included:
- Annie Get your Gun
- Theres no business like show business.
- Anything you can do
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Cole Porter (1891-1964)

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American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards with witty lyrics.

  • Anything Goes
  • Kiss Me Kate
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Who composed for ‘Anything Goes?’

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Cole Porter (1891-1964)

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What was the final work of Rodgers and Hart. Analyse it

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Pal Joey, 1940

Include diegetic songs, where songs are apart of the scene

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What artist/composer wrote a revue to encourage the war effort.

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Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

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Who wrote the song “Anything you can do.”

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Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

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Who composed for ‘Annie Get your Gun’

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Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

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Who composed ‘theres no business like show business’

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Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

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Who composed ‘Kiss Me Kate,’ what was interesting about this production

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Cole Porter (1891-1964) 
It was based on 'the taming of the shrew' and it has unusual rhyming.
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The Cradle Will Rock (1937) was a controversial musical… Why?

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  • Agitprop Theatre (political theatre)
  • It was banned because of political content during the war.
  • It was sponsored by Federal Theatre Project.
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What is interesting about the Threepenny Opera

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It was adapted from the 1728 Beggars opera.

The song mack the knife is a jazz standard, sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

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What happened to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein when their partners, Lorenz Hart and Jerome Kern, passed away?

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They came together and created a new partnership ‘Rodgers and Hammerstein’ and created landmark musicals together.

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Name 5 musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein

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  1. Oklahoma!
  2. The King and I
  3. The Sound of Music
  4. Flower Drum Song
  5. Allegro
  6. Me and Juliet
  7. Cinderella
  8. Pipe Dream
  9. South Pacific
  10. Carousel
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Who is Agnes De Mille (1905-1993)

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She was a choreographer who avoided chorus and kick lines, she employed real dancers and started exploring integrated musicals.

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Who wrote Carousel? Analyse

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

dark themes of domestic violence and tragedy.

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Who wrote South Pacific? Analyse

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Rodgers and Hammerstein
Challenges inter-racial relationships in family and love interests.
Set during WW2

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Who wrote The King & I? Analyse

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Rodgers and Hammerstein
Based on the novel ‘Anna and the King of Siam’
Diegetic, themes of western imperialism. It is banned in Thailand.

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Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)

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American lyricist and librettist.

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Frederick Loewe (1901-1988)

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Austrian-American composer.

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Name 2 musicals by the Lerner and Loewe duo.

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Broadway Musicals included:

  1. My Fair Lady
    - Based off of Pygmalian
  2. Brigadoon
  3. Paint your Wagon
  4. Camelot
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Who wrote ‘My Fair Lady’?

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Lerner and Loewe duo: Based off of Pygmalian

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Who wrote ‘Brigadoon’?

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Lerner and Loewe duo

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Who wrote ‘Camelot’?

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Lerner and Loewe duo

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Who wrote ‘Paint your Wagon’?

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Lerner and Loewe duo

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