Music 2701A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Herbert Kretzmer, Jason Robert Brown
25 Mar 2015
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Musical: is a stage, television or film production utilizing popular-style songs (dialogue optional) to either tell a story (book musicals) or showcase the talents of the writers and/or performers (revues) Book musicals: musical that has a story, music is progressing the story, dance and everything that goes into the show is being used to progress the story. Revues: a series of songs and dances and monologues/skits possibly all related to each other, but they are not there for the purpose of telling a story. Off-broadway: number of seats in the house distinguishes broadway and off broadway: broadway houses are the big ones 500+ seats. Cantata: a short work that is sung, basically a short piece of theatre. Joseph started off as a cantata: usually based on scripture or a religious theme, usually old testament stories, unstaged. Meter: how a bar of music is divided and how you count that music most songs on the radio are 4/4.
