Types of Songs
A slow, emotional song that often tells a story.
What is a ballad?
A song and dance routine within a musical.
What is a musical number?
The person who designs sequences of dance movements in a performance.
What is the choreographer?
The process of transforming a work from one medium to another, such as a book into a musical or a musical into a film.
What is adaptation?
The major theatrical district in New York City, often used to refer to professional theater in general.
What is Broadway?
A repetition of a song or musical theme, often with altered lyrics to reflect plot development.
The last musical number or scene in a performance.
What is the finale?
The person who writes the words for songs in a musical.
What is the lyricist?
The art of motion-picture photography and filming.
What is cinematography?
The creation and arrangement of the onstage environment for a theatrical production.
What is set design?
An instrumental piece played at the beginning of a musical or opera.
What is an overture?
A major division of a play or musical, typically separated by an intermission.
What is an act?
The person who writes the music for a musical or opera.
What is a composer?
The recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture.
What is the soundtrack?
Instructions written into the script for the movement and positioning of actors on stage.
What are stage directions?
A song with rapid-fire lyrics, often comical.
What is a patter song?
A break between acts of a theatrical performance.
What is an intermission?
The person who oversees and coordinates all aspects of a theatrical production.
What is the director?
A type of shot in film that tightly frames a person or object.
What is a close up?
The process of putting a play or musical on stage, including blocking and technical aspects.
What is staging?
A solo vocal piece, typically in an opera or musical, that expresses a character's emotions.
What is an aria?
The appearance of performers on stage after a performance to acknowledge applause.
What is the curtain call?
The entire performing cast of a musical.
What is the ensemble?
A camera shot that moves horizontally across a scene.
What is a pan shot?
A developmental production of a new work, often with minimal staging.
What is workshop?