MUSIC 2TT3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dubose Heyward, Rouben Mamoulian, Dorothy Heyward
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Heywarad and porgy, a 1927 play by dubose and. Musical: a broadly defined genre referring to a type of performance made up of talking, singing and dancing. Musicals usually contain about 16 musical numbers, beginning with an overture. Musicals are highly collaborative bringing together a large creative collective. Broadway musical: any one of a range of entertainments that had been produced in a designated theatre in nyc, where a cluster of about 4 dozen theatres creates and area around broadway between 39th and 54th. Role of music: establishes and maintains the dramatic atmosphere, tone or mood, conveys or reinforces emotion of a dramatic action, personify, prefigure or predict, can be a transition, generates an opportunity to dance. Role of the source: most musicals are based on something else, a play, novel, short story, memoir etc. Book shows: contain a plot, a narrative; opera, comic opera, operetta, musical comedy.
