musical genre,musical style,genre music- an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner African-American music,black music- music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a stro...
A key part of the classical music tradition in the West, opera features vocal performances that make up a specific type of musical theatre. Opera is essentially a story told to music. The lines between opera and classical music are extremely blurred and very often the two genres overlap. #26...
Hey, what's that sound? Music pervades many aspects of contemporary everyday life; it appears in commercials, blares from speakers in stores and restaurants, accompanies commuters on the way to work, and...
The Music Genres List site covers many of the most popular styles of music;thanks to you, it is becoming the definitive list of music genres on the Internet. If you feel any music genres are missing (we’re sure there are many!), please emailadd @ music genres list dot com,and we’...
Find out about the awards available to shows of any genre at the Edinburgh Fringe, and who won them last time.
And for SUM Theatre artistic director and The Reel Whirled co-director Mac Dawson, Guselle took the “tall task” of creating a ’90s, digital soundscape that would resonate for audiences of all ages, and brought the narrative to new heights. ...
The musical score by Alexandre Desplat is one of this fine composer's best, and the cinematography by Thierry Jault finds just the right flavor of the seamy streets of Brussels to make the story as creepy as it should be. So with all this praise why only 8 stars for the DVD? The ...
of a certain type of musical theatre performance. Taking from the operetta form and ballad opera, but incorporating French vaudeville and other more variety-type elements, the Savoy opera grew out of the repertoire made for theSavoy Theatrein London. A large body of works came from this ...
theatre, with many operas using characters representing gods and virtues. The audience for these operas were generally the courts and nobility, thus the operas were never really for general consumption. By the second half of the 18th century, the opera seria was in relative decline as the ...
11. MUSICAL COMEDY Musical comedy is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance, with the emphasis being on humour – although emotion in the form of pathos, love, anger etc – is typically present. Where musical comedy differs from comic opera and operetta is tha...