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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"music theatre"”.
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Towards Elucidating Psychological Arousal in Response to Music Theatre
… psychological effects of observing experimental music theatre performance video recording. Experiencing music theatre can evoke a range of aesthetic and psychological emotions in audiences. These include joy, sadness, fear, unease, excitement, and empathy. Immersion in stories and characters can …
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Music-theatre as music: A practical exploration of composing theatrical material based on music-centric conceptualisation of myth
This thesis examines the notion of 'music-theatre as music' in its relation to myth. It is provided as an indispensable tool of critical commentary for the accompanying performances (that are included in the submission in DVD documentation) and as an in-depth analysis of the issues that relate to …
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Plotting the Processes of Writing and Directing an Original Music Theatre Production For Ecumenical Theatre Called, the Congregation
… writing and subsequently directing an original music theater work specifically tailored for the Christian community. This project has been done in response to the growing need of Christian Theatre in the ecumenical world. This project was approached as a creative thesis project. The method of …
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Protestant's Guide To Catholic "Nunsense": A Performance Study And Analysis Of "Sister Mary Hubert"
… portray the role of Sister Mary Hubert in the musical Nunsense at Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach, Florida from October 28 through November 14, 2005. This parody of convent life in crisis written by Dan Goggin provides a breadth of material for analysis of the genre as well as character …
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Choreographing Cabaret: A Guide to Storytelling through Dance and Movement
American Musical Theatre is one of the unique American methods of storytelling that exists in performance. In a musical, text, song, movement, and dance tell a story. In Music Theatre, when a character can no longer express what they desire in words, they sing. If singing cannot satisfy the need, …
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Sacrificial form: the libretti in English 1940-2000
… on the genre of libretto, the sung words for music theatre. The “little book” which accompanies every operatic performance is not just an extended program note to the spectacle, but in fact a substantial literary form in its own right. However, despite the immense influence of Wagner, the …
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Addressing the gap in the arts and culture industry in Dubai problems and solutions
… events relating to literature, the visual arts, music, theatre and film - all reflecting the cultural lead Dubai is rapidly assuming in these spheres. The research is the first of its kind about Dubai. In such a study, some limitations need to be established. Specifically, I want to focus on the …
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Embodying the Canadian University Dance Transition Experience: A Collective Case Study
… multiple, pre-university experiences such as music, theatre and/or sport.
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Acting Out: The Pleasures of Performance Horror
… whilst the genre encompasses much more: art, music, theatre and games, forms which have not had as much attention. The objective of the current discussion is to move beyond this limited tradition, instead engaging with performance, or live action, horror. This study begins with the premise …
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Opera in South Africa during the first democratic decade
… interest as was their classification as operas, musical theatre or music drama. Their artistic merit and the process followed in writing successful works in this genre were investigated. Not only was the collaboration between composer and librettist scrutinised, but also the initial stage during …
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Portfolio of compositions with technical commentary
… portfolio explore different modes of ‘narrative' musical development and display an increasing preoccupation with finding ways of integrating quarter-tonal and equal tempered material. Over the course of my portfolio I have largely allowed the material itself to drive the overall shape of the …
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‘It’s All in The Timing’ – A Research Project that explores the complexities in the relationship of Actor to Audience, in Musical Theatre
… and how this relationship can differ within nonmusical, and musical theatre. In non-musical theatre, for example, there can be a very intimate and immediate “dialogue” between actor and audience, that can alter each moment of a performance, making possible a unique co-creation between the two …
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A 16 Bar Cut: The History Of American Musical Theatrean Original Script And Monograph Document
… with my classmate Patrick John Moran--a new musical entitled A 16 Bar Cut: The History of American Musical Theatre as the capstone project for my Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. A 16 Bar Cut will be a two-man show that tells the entire history of American musical theatre from the …
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SELF(ISH)-FUSION THINKING AND PRACTICE- A (MAINLY) VISUAL INVESTIGATION OF POLY-MODAL ART-MAKING
… actor, performance-artist, and to some extent, musician/sonic performer. This coexistence of modalities with associated meta-praxis, has in fact created a set of parallel dimensions embodied within a collective of theories as well as practices. On the one hand, this collective of practices has …
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Rehearsing New Opera: An Ethnographic Lens on Becoming Posthuman
… in operatic repetition, reconfigures ideas of musical authorship and fosters intermundane collaboration. In the opera production *Upload*, composer, librettist and director Michel van der Aa explores the affordances of a virtual avatar within a laboratory-like studio, reorganising …
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Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis
… modification in the contemporary Hollywood musical and calls for a re-reading of the genre away from the standard classification, that of one strictly imbued with wistful nostalgia and heteronormativity. This work argues that several films have abrogated these traditional ideals to create a …
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Conducting L'Histoire du Soldat : a tale of two libretti
… wrote a new text to accompany Stravinsky’s music, a text inspired by the true story of Private Eddie Slovik, the last American soldier executed for desertion. In essence, Vonnegut collaborates with Stravinsky in a posthumous sense, as Stravinsky does with Bach and Bach with Luther. Vonnegut …
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Site and sound: musical composition and site-specific performance – developing a creative practice through practical methodologies
… technologies in urban spaces? How can sound and music be used to create performances in locations associated with movement such as trains, bridges and rivers? How can musical composition integrate spaces, locations and physical objects to create unique site-specific performances? The documented …
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