HLM 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stage Entertainment, Yankee Doodle, United States Marine Band
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Waltz Songs
● By 1890, dance rhythms which was a part of menstrual songs started to be used with
sentimental songs
● The waltz first dance rhythm used with
● Most memorable songs from this time had a waltz beat
● “Take Me out to the Ballgame”
● Used from 1860’s to 1910’s
● Chorus becomes more memorable and survives rather than veruses
● Carries of the legacy of menstrual song
○ Verse-chorus form
○ Everyday language
○ Dance beats
“Take Me Out to the Ballgame”
● Verse-chorus form
● Waltz song
● ¾
● Has a dance rhythm
● Sold 5 million copies
○ Showed that there was a market for sheet music for popular music
Stage Entertainment post civil war
● Became popular after civil war
● Menstrual show showed there was a market for popular entertainment
● 1870: three entertainment genres
○ Menstrual show
○ Vaudeville (variety show)
■ Singers, dancers, comics, magicians, jugglers
○ Musical comedy
■ Had plots
● Served more as accompaniment to music, rather than an actual,
good story
■ Form of musical theater started here
○ Operetta
■ Great success in US
■ Early 20th century, people started migrating to US
■ Starts the slow demise of the menstrual show
○ The Review
■ Fills the void of the menstrual show
●Interpolation: when they would insert a song because of its popular rather than fitting into
the plot of the show
George M. Cohan
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