MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Contemporary Dance, Big Band, Victor Herbert
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Showboat: pre-dates the genres and the sub-genres of today"s musicals. Early forms of musical theatre: book shows (with a plot, opera, comic operas, operetta, musical comedy, numbers shows (no plot, minstrelsy, vaudeville, revue. What could a theatre goer see on broadway in the 1920"s: show boat part of the 1927-1928 broadway season. 1926-1927 the season the most broadway shows opened ever - 53. Shows: 50% only performed 10 shows (failures, 13 shows ran 200-300 performances, 2 shows ran 500 performances included in these were: revues, operetta"s, comic operas, Music drama , musical romance: opera, discuss the genre and its relationship to musical theatre in. Lecture 4 on porgy and bess and street scene: comic opera, the pirates of penzance (1879), music by arthur sullivan and lyrics by w. s. gilbert. Major -general"s song: patter song, steady, relentless rhythm lots of lyrics.
