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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"musical theater"”.
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Dance in the contemporary American musical theater: What has become of the dream ballet?
… and identifies its contributions to the American musical theater. The thesis specifically examines the amplification of the emotional realm of character and plot development, as elicited by the dream ballet; The study evaluates the void left today by the absence of the dream ballet in relation to …
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The Musical Theater Experience and the Extent to Which It Affects High School Students
The data support the researcher's belief that musical theater can be an important tool for recruiting non-music students into high school music programs. The study supports the praxial philosophy of music education, and it also provides some legitimacy to the study of musical theater in secondary …
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A Study of the Feasibility of Constructing A Performance Difficulty Assessment Scale for Musical Theater
… assess the performance difficulty of works for musical theater, and (b) to determine the feasibility of using the instruments in the assessment of performance difficulty.
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American musical theater songs in the undergraduate vocal studio : a survey of current practice, guidelines for repertoire selection, and pedagogical analyses of selected songs
American musical theater songs are popular with the general public, and many college and university voice students are familiar with them. Some voice teachers also use musical theater repertoire to varying degrees in voice instruction. Such familiarity and interest lend significance to this study …
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Tome : a chamber opera in one act
… story. Tome occupies the middle-ground between musical theater and opera, presenting a dramatic scene that, unlike opera, integrates spoken text and singing, yet eschews the dialogue/music polarization of musical theater. Additionally, the singers play specific characters within the story, but …
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The Chorus: A Line To Cross
… will provide an in depth examination into the musical theater role of Paul, the male Puerto Rican dancer in A Chorus Line, as performed by Marco Antonio Santiago. The performance will take place at Cohoes Musical Theater in Albany, New York. This examination will reveal how the application of …
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Developments in Viennese operetta in Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár, and Robert Stolz.
… important for the development of light opera and musical theater in some way. Therefore, I studied the most important elements of the genre, namely the waltz, exoticism, and local color, and compared how each composer used these common building blocks in their most successful operettas.
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND REVOLUTION: USE OF LEITMOTIF IN THE FIRST ACTS OF LES MISÉRABLES AND HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL
<p>Leitmotif, a recurring musical theme that represents a character, idea, or situation, is a device used in operas, film scores, and musical theater. Accredited to Richard Wagner, leitmotifs enhance storytelling and provide a sense of cohesion to a production. The popular musicals Les Misérables …
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Pop goes the theory: incorporating popular music into the undergraduate music theory curriculum
… video game soundtracks, Christmas carols, musical theater, patriotic songs, even television jingles and nursery rhymes. The target audience for this project are theory teachers who want to integrate popular music into their classes but who are unfamiliar with the repertoire or are uncertain …
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From revolution to revolt in theatre artistry: A shift in American attitude from Vietnam to Watergate reflected in the musicals "Chicago" and "Hair"
… thesis traces how the artistry of the Broadway musical reflects the condition of the American attitude as influenced by the events of its time. From two historical events, Vietnam to Watergate, there is a shift in attitude evident in two pieces of musical theater, Hair and Chicago. What is …
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Becoming Jerome Kern: The Early Songs and Shows, 1903--1915
… of creative collaboration, and the business of musical theater served to structure Kern's music. Next I examine his songs individually, as dramatic miniatures, looking at the structural and stylistic means Kern employs to compose dramatically effective songs. I show continuities between Kern's …
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Pathétique: a tale of two rabbys
… incorporates a variety of contrasting styles and musical material in an attempt to unify them under the same work while maintaining a unique sound. Since I began composing, I've heard this collaboration in my head between the rock music that I listened to growing up with the contemporary classical …
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A Systematic Analysis of Risks to Adolescent Vocal Health
… and vocal difficulties in high school musical theater productions. Anonymous student surveys (N=60) from two rural high schools in West Georgia revealed over-use and lack of knowledge about chest voice singing as risky to adolescent vocal health. Anonymous choral director surveys (N=2) …
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Motivic, rhythmic, and harmonic procedures of unification in Stephen Sondheim's Company and A little night music
The purpose of the study was to examine the musical methods used by Stephen Sondheim to create a sense of internal unity in scores that, because of the nature of musical theater, required diverse styles of composition and often involved extended periods of time between the occurrence of musical …
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Harmony, voice leading, and drama in three Sondheim musicals
… analytical approach to three works by American musical theater composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim: Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins—each of which Sondheim developed largely at the Playwrights Horizons theater in New York. Using an eclectic, neo-Schenkerian approach …
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“It’s War That's Cruel”: The Evolution of Wartime Representation and ‘The Other’ in the American Musical
<p>Musical theater has historically been a venue for Americans to come to terms with our past and present on both a national and an individual level as it stages and restages war mythology on the Broadway Stage. As the nation has won, lost, and abandoned foreign conflicts, the connotation, …
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The contemporary classical singer : why new music is necessary in 21st-century vocal pedagogy
… styles from bel canto to contemporary classical, musical theater, experimental, pop, etc. This shift from specialized technique to pluralistic embrace has been compelled by a number of factors: increased social awareness and criticism of classical music’s elitist past, growth of minority …
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Graduate Recital, Violin
… follows his mission to embrace a variety of musical styles, in an effort to break boundaries between popular music styles and high art music styles. This philosophy began to influence his compositions in the 1960's. Throughout his career, Bolcom has composed pieces across many genres, …
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A place for West Side Story (1961): Gender, race, and tragedy in Hollywood's adaptation
… coupled with cinematic techniques modify the musical’s dramatic arc while simultaneously affecting both the gendered and ethnic representations within the show. My approach within this paper takes into account how the music, lyrics, dialogue, and cinematography all work together to form a …
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