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MUSICAL (Changing Styles (Musicals are generally written in the style of…
MUSICAL
Changing Styles
Musicals are generally written in the style of the popular music it's around at the time - so musical from different times sound very different
Earlier musicals were influenced by jazz and swing music, while lots of musicals from 1970s onwards used rock music
1920-1950s - COLE PORTER - Paris, Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate, Silk Stockings
1940s-1950s - RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN - Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music
1950s-2010s - STEPHEN SONDHEIM - Follies, Sweeney Todd and lyrics for West Side Story
1960s - 1990s - KANDER & EBB - Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman
1970s-2010s - ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Phantom of the Opera, School of Rock
1970s-2000s - SCHONBERG & BOUBIL - Les Miserables, Miss Saigon
Easy on the Ear
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The song structure is often simple, with alternating verses and choruses and a middle eight (similar to the structure of a pop song)
INTRO - grabs the audiences' attention, MIDDLE 8 - Has new chords and new lyrics - a change mood to keep the audience interested. OUTRO - Ties the song off - either loud and brassy, or sad quiet and quiet
The chorus is often in 32-bar song form. The 32 bar break down into four sections of 8 bars each. Sections 1,2 and 4 use the main theme (sometimes with slight variation) Section 3 has a contrasting theme
The chorus has a hook - a catchy hook bit of lyrics and that makes the song memorable. The hook is the bit that gets stuck in the audience's head and often become the title of the song
General
3) Musicals use singing , dancing and talking to tell stories
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2) The type of musicals that are around today started in the 1920s, and developed throughout the rest of the 20th and into 21st Century. They startef out on Broadway, a famous theatre street in New York. Some start In London's West End
5) Some musicals that started out on the stage have been made into really popular films - like Grease, West Side Story, and Sweeney Todd. Sometimes, a musical that started as a film which was adapted into a musical performed on stage - like Billy Elliot
1) Musical came from less serious versions of opera, like opera comique and operetta. Towards the end of 19th Century, Gilbert and Sullivan wrote lots of popular comic opera
Some musicals are based on novels - like Wicked, Oliver! and Matilda The Musical
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Pop Songs
Song from musicals sometimes hit the charts. In UK, musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice have spawned a few charts hits
On the other hand, sometimes charts hits find their way into musicals - Mamma Mia! was written around of ABBA hits
The plots of these often have nothing to do with the band, but use their songs to tell the story