Musical Theater
This Director/choreographer was a major force in the 1980s & early 1990s, contributing to Nine, My One and Only, Will Rodgers Follies, and Grand Hotel.
Who is Tommy Tune?
The only sounds in which nasal resonance is required
What is [m], [n], [ŋ]?
Musical representation of specific poetic images
What is word painting?
The fusion of folk music and rural blues
What is Rockabilly?
A musical filled with murder and friendly competition with choreography by Bob Fosse.
What is Chicago?
"New" shows built around existing pop songs. Some of these pop-athons were revues, but most were book musicals where the songs came first, the plot second. (Examples: Movin’ Out, Jersey Boys, and Mamma Mia)
What is a Jukebox Musical?
The best position for the larynx
What is lowered (like in the beginning of a yawn)?
This is NOT a part of the Mass Ordinary
What is Ave Maria?
Acid Jazz depends on two electronic techniques
What is sampling and looping?
A musical featuring veteran actors.
What is 70, Girls, 70?
Disney musicals which are produced and managed by multi-functional entertainment companies. Instead of the distinctive stamp of creative individuals, they have the anonymous efficiency of a department store.
What is a Corporate Musical?
A vibratory pattern LESS than 5.5 Hz usually caused by overloading the voice or pulsing with the abdominal muscles
What is wobble?
A written bass melody together with numerals indicating the intervals above the bass, resulting in chords
What is the Basso continuo?
Outraged by its pagan primitivism, harsh dissonance, percussiveness and pounding caused a riot to erupt in the audience
What is the Rite of Spring?
Movie Musical starring Liza Minnelli andRobert De Niro.
What is New York, New York?
Major producer of the “mega-musical” phenomenon, including Cats, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera & Miss Saigon.
Who is Cameron Mackintosh?
Color or tone-quality characteristics that are most often used in voice classification
What is Timbre?
Mozart was asked to compose his Requiem by?
a complete stranger
Producer that pioneered multi-track recording
Who is Phil Spector?
The first collaboration of Kander and Ebb.
What is Flora the Red Menace
La Cage Aux Folles composer and creator of Hello Dolly and Mame.
Who is Jerry Herman?
The relative amount of time the glottis is open during a glottal cycle, typically 60% of the time
What is the open quotient?
The difference between Monophonic, Polyphonic, and Homophonic textures.
Monophonic is one vocal line
Polyphonic is multiple vocal lines playing different parts.
Homophonic is multiple vocal lines playing the same part.
The deliberate evocation of ancient power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds.
What is primitivism?
Musical about politics and survival rather than happiness and optimism.
What is Cabaret?