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Area Study 2 - Coggle Diagram
Area Study 2
Musicals
Earlier musicals were influenced by jazz and swing music while lots of musicals fro the 1970s onwards used rock musicals
Musicals use singing, dancing and talking to tell stories.
The genre started out on Broadway, a famous theatre street in New York. Later ones started in London's West End.
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Some musicals hit the charts. For example, Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Don't cry for me Argentina' and 'Memory'.
Musical styles are always changing. Musicals are usually written in the style of the popular music that's around at the time - so musicals from different times sound very different.
The types of musicals that are around today originated in the 1920s, and developed throughout the rest of the 20th and into the 21st century.
Some musicals have been made into popular musical films: Hairspray, Grease, and Billy Elliot.
Hans Zimmer - Time
Slow tempo - 63 bpm, which is similar to a clock
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Types of song
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Duet - duets are basically the same as solo character songs, except there are two people singing so you get two different reactions to a situation. You can also get trios, quartets, etc.
Action song - the words of the song tll you what's going on in the plot - they lead ou into the nxt bit of the story.
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