Musical History- Terms and People to Know

MUSHIST60- key terms

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An integrated book musical that is essentially nonnarrative, or at least nonlinear in its narrative approach, and that often takes on some aspects of a revue
Concept musical
English spoken by foreigners, tried to not to mark down the other as different and eventaually create a hierarchy, they are the ones not speaking good english, pared-down modes
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Films that had accompiment, but then later when film came with a sound track, live accompiment films became dead
"silent" film
Two-pronged approach, setting up musical numbers as "naturally" as possible, but moving fairly quickly into ...
MERM (Musically Enhanced Reality Mode)
A kind of "love triangle" in which the long-standing friendship of two men (often a hero and his sidekick) is threatened by the atraction of one of them to a woman introduced early on (the ingenue, although often not axactly an innocent)
"Buddy" film
Routine in which each member of the comedy team interrupts the other
Indefinite talk
Japan, 1853, USA
Commodore Perry
Mentor to the other to persuaide him to work on Gypsy
Oscar Hammerstein II (& Sondheim)
Musical usually seen as a groudnbreker for importance of broadway musicals, Oklahoma, all the elements involved in a musical- music, drama, song, dance, scenery, costumes, etc.- contribute to a single integrated whole
Integrated musical
Wrote Pygmalion, play which My Fair Lady is based off of.
George Bernard Shaw
Sexploitiation
Pulp novels
Director-choreographer, West Side Story and The King and I
Jerome Robbins
What matters is what you are “inside,” not what you do, developed by Kant, 19th century
German Idealism
Read the story, films are nothing like it.
Frankenstein films
Shakespeare story, about a shrew and being courted
The Taming of the Shrew