Music

Question 1

What is the

Fourth Wall

Answer 1

The characters act as if the audience is not there

Question 2

example of the fourth wall being broken

Answer 2

Sweeney Todd prelude

Question 3

Concept Album

Answer 3

Music gets produced prior to the musical being out

Question 4

An example of a concept album

Answer 4

Les Mis

Question 5

Phenomenal Song

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Made lots of money

Question 6

Example of a phenomenal song

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Bushel and a Peck

Question 7

Vaudeville

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Hosted acts that had little to do with one another. People would travel around and look for theatres and the owner of the theatres would see whos putting on shows and see if they like what people were doing and put a show together

Question 8

Coloratura

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an elaborate melody with runs, trills, wide leaps, or similar virtuoso material or a passage of such music. Happens over long phrases

Question 9

Example of a coloratura

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Mabel uses it when she sings take heart

Question 10

Leitmotif

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Motif thematically associated with a person, place, or idea. Repetition of a phrase/melody

Question 11

Operetta

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Precursor of later musical comedy. Nowadays seen as light opera with acting. Developed from tragic operas. Dancers were one step higher than prostitutes

Question 12

First big successful operetta

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Orpheus in the underworld (1858).

Question 13

Example of an operetta

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Show boat

Question 14

Pointillism

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A style of impressionistic painting. Small dots of colour to make it look like wide selection of colours and blending. Can refer to style of 20th century music. Short detached notes depicting Georges quick, fine brushstrokes

Question 15

Runyonesque

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Best known for prohibition-era stories celebrating Broadway demimonde. Characters are gamblers, small-time crooks, actors, hustlers, tough newspapermen, showgirls. Damon Runyon

Question 16

Example of Runyonesque

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Guys and Dolls

Question 17

Hemiola

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Two against three pattern. Grouped accents or rhythmic subdivisions that change the implied pulse or create a secondary rhythmic pattern

Question 18

Example of a hemiola

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America - West Side Story

Question 19

Musical Comedy

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Originated from Vaudeville. Concentrated on comedy routines, high energy song and dance numbers, plot not too important.

Question 20

Example of Musical Comedy

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West Side Story

Question 21

Ostinato

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A motive which repeats persistently; a succession of equal

Question 22

Example of an Ostinato

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Finishing the Hat. The continuous sound the piano

Question 23

Recitative

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Musical Declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same notes

Question 24

Syncopation

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A variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter pulse. General term for disturbance or interruption of regular flow of rhythm

Question 25

Example of syncopation

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Dance at the Gym - West Side Story

Question 26

Dies Irae Melody

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Translates to “Day of Wrath”. The day that souls will be judged and determined if they go to heaven or hell.

Question 27

Example of Dies Irae Melody

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First four notes of “Swing your razor wide, Sweeney”. Positions Sweeney as a god-like character

Question 28

English Comic Opera

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Dominated by the team of Gilbert and Sullivan. Humorous plots, comedic characters, happy endings - not always

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Musical Play

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Focus on superior libretto, possibly from a “serious” source like a novel or play, socially important subject matter, music is organized to libretto, fully integrated elements

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Example of English Comic Opera

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Pirates of Penzance

Question 31

example of Musical Plat

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Oklahoma!

Question 32

Rock Musical

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Ideal of youth counterculture. Sexual revolution. Irrelevance for American Flag. Sticking it to the man. Actors from the streets (raw/real). Rock, Gospel, R&B, Soul.