work in a variety of settings as arrangers‚ ensemble directors‚ vocal coaches‚ recording engineers and producers‚ jingle singers‚ jazz artists‚ educators‚ theme-park and cruise-line entertainers‚ contemporary Christian singers‚ pop/rock singers‚ cabaret and club performers‚ back-up singers‚ and even arts administrators and managers. I thought about attending my first concert as an audience member‚ as I watched choir members join their ranks. I was not sure what my reaction would be. Would I feel
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The History of Musical Theatre The recently released Les Misérables earned £8.1 million in its opening weekend‚ making it the largest opening weekend for a musical film in history‚ proving that the genre is still alive. But how exactly did this powerful art form originate? And from then on‚ how did it evolve to become the spectacularly vivacious being that it is today? The oldest known forms of music theatre were the ancient Greek plays with music and lyrics‚ as well as music and dance being
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but to grow as a performer. In Acting in Musicals‚ Mr. Jory attempts to answer an often debated question “Is the art of acting different in musicals and plays?” This is a very important subject for acting teachers; should we as professionals leave out a large lucrative portion of the professional acting roles simply because we prefer straight plays over musicals or worse don’t have
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Rent is a rock musical that was created by Jonathan Larson. It’s based on the opera La Bohème. The musical tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City in a village called Alphabet City‚ under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The musical was first seen in a workshop production in a New York Theatre Workshop in 1993. This same Off-Broadway theatre was also the musical’s initial home following its official 1996 opening. Jonathan Larson‚ the
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Oz is one of the biggest American Musicals in film. It has become known world wide‚ it is apart of our American popular culture‚ and is best known of all films. It was based on the novel‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in the 1900s. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayar in the year of 1939. This film just hit the end of the “Golden Age of the Musical” that started in the early 1930s. MGM benefited greatly from the hit of the rebirth of musicals. It’s known for the use of technicolor
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I will never be able to watch High School Musical again. Not that I was an avid devotee of High School Musical before‚ in fact‚ I had only seen High School Musical once before I was cast in Danville Area High School’s version of “High School Musical On Stage!.” Being five years old when High School Musical aired on Disney Channel‚ I was a natural-born Gabriella Montez on the playgrounds of my elementary school. Of course‚ I was Gabriella because I best fit the physical description in our small class
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Cultural Event Analysis: Heathers: The Musical The Center for the Living Arts is a small building in the downtown district in Rock Island. The district was dead except for the small line outside of a locked door. The 1989 movie Heathers had a cult following‚ people today have the same passion for Heathers: The Musical. I had first heard of the musical from people online raving about how good it was and how catchy the songs are. After I had sat though Davenport West’s spring play Seussical‚ I needed
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focus is emotion‚ there is a system of interpretation by which music can be logically realized‚ quantified and rationalized: such a method is called music theory. Music theory‚ although still technically an art‚ could be defined as ‘the science of musical tonality‚ rhythm and structure.’ Out of these three pillars‚ however‚ by-far the most influential and important is tonality. Tonality‚ according to Mark DeVoto‚ is‚ “…the organized relationship of tones with reference to a definite center‚ the tonic
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High School Musical is a jock and captain of the basketball team. Both the girls‚ Sandy is in Grease and Gabriella in High School Musical are sweet and studious. It is a discovered shared interest in music that brings Troy and Gabriella together in High School Musical; throughout the film they have to contend with the desire of their respective groups‚ the basketball team and the academic decathlon team as well as the ambitions of peers wanting the lead roles in the high school musical that try to
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工學 學士 學位論文 Musical Genre Classification of Audio Signals 2010년 12월 16일 서울대학교 공과대학 電氣工學部 李 承 澤 Musical Genre Classification of Audio Signals 指導敎授 성 굉 모 이 논문을 공학 학사학위 논문으로 제출함 2010년 12월 16일 서울대학교 공과대학 電氣工學部 이 승 택 이승택의 학사 학위 논문을 인준함 2010년 12월 16일 지도교수 성 굉 모 (인) ABSTRACT Musical genres are categorized by human. It depends on human hearing. There are common characteristics shared by categories. These characteristics are related to instrumentation‚ rhythmic structure‚ and harmonic
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