Censorship of music is the practice of restricting free access to musical works. This censorship may stem from a wide variety of motivations‚ including moral‚ political‚ military or religious reasons. Censorship can range from the complete government-enforced legal prohibition of a musical work‚ to private‚ voluntary removal of content when a musical work appears in a certain context. In order to allow songs to be played wherever possible‚ it is common to censor particular words‚ particularly profanities
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Oklahoma! The Musical That Changed The World Two great writers of American musical theatre‚ Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II‚ had one common idea. They wanted to present to the American public a new‚ revolutionary musical that would stand out among the rest. They wanted to make an impact on the societies of the era. They wanted to be creative and do something that was considered rebellious. When they finally combined their ideas together they created an American masterpiece: Oklahoma
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Historical Timeline of Musical Theatre Renaissance The antecendents of musical theatre in Europe can be traced back to the theatre of ancient Greece‚ where dance and music were included in stage comedies and tragedies during the 5th century BCE. The 3rd-century BCE Roman comedies of Plautus included song and dance routines performed with orchestrations. The Romans also introduced technical innovations. For example‚ to make dance steps more audible in large open air theatres‚ Roman actors attached
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the extract our house. We will discuss and analyse the context of the whole musical‚ the audience reaction the characters and other things that may make this musical unique. We will also analyse 2 songs and look in depth as to why they are popular. We will also look at the cultural influences that Madness have in their music. The musical that has been chosen and cut down for an hour long performance is our house. The musical looks at different themes and issues throughout the show giving you a story
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Musical theatre can be a great tool for teachers as it can help teach a variety of skills and provide information. However‚ musical theatre is often ignored in the classroom. This is not only a fault of people with distaste for theatre‚ but also lovers of theatre. As David Savran says‚ “And even for many devotees of the so-called straight theatre‚ musical theatre remains (at best) a guilty pleasure-a little too gay‚ too popular‚ too Jewish‚ and too much damned fun” (216). This blockage between
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Musical theater and entertainment have been an ever-changing enterprise that‚ until very recently‚ included little diversity. In March of 2008‚ a new musical was presented on Broadway. It was titled In the Heights. This new musical featured something never before seen in musical theater: the songs are primarily latino rap. It was a bold step down a path no one had taken before. The story takes places in a poor neighborhood in New York called Washington Heights. Those living there are immigrants from
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I like to do musical theater this involves sing dancing and acting all at the same time. In one song alone you have to stay on your note during the harmonies and remember the lyrics. When you look at it from the dancing aspect you have to keep on beat‚ make sure to stay in unison with the other performers and remember all the dance movie and the order they come in. The last aspect of musical theater is the acting you have emotion not only on you face but in your voice as well as your dancing. These
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ourselves nodding‚ tapping or humming to the music because it sounds good and we may even sing while listening to the lyrics. Censorship is a big thing in music for various reasons. Censorship of music is the practice of restricting free access to musical works. This censorship may come from a wide variety of motivations‚ including moral‚ political‚ military or religious reasons. Music is a free expression of the ideas‚ traditions and emotions of individuals and of peoples. It may express musicians’
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CLASSIFICATION All musical instruments can be divided into four major classes: aerophones‚ chordophones‚ electrophones and percussion. The biggest and the most versatile class is aerophones which can be further subdivided into free aerophones and pipe aerophones. On the next level free aerophones fall into those with free reed and with beating reed. Beating reed aerophones are represented by single reed (organ pipes) and double reed (human voice) instruments. Free reed instruments
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The Science of Musical Instruments - Grade 10 teaching and learning project Music is an artform‚ but there's a lot of science in there too. Whether your instrument is your voice‚ a flute‚ a marimba‚ a recorder‚ a violin or a piano‚ sound is a form of energy and to make sound requires a change from one form of energy - usually kinetic (motion energy) - into sound energy. So whatever your instrument there's a scientific explanation to how it works. The art of music is how well you put that
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