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1. CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC

2. THEATRE MUSIC
• Refers to a wide range of
music composed or adapted
to performance in theatres.
Genres of theatre music
include opera, ballet, and
several forms of musical
theatre, from pantomime to
operatta and modern stage
musicals and revues.

3. MUSICAL THEATRE
• Is a form of theatrical performance
that combines songs, spoken
dialogue, acting, and dance. The
story and emotional content of the
piece – humor, pathos, love, anger
– are communicated through the
words, music, movement and
technical aspects of the
entertainment as an integrated
whole.

4. MUSICAL THEATRE
• Since the early 20th
century, musical theatre
stage works have
generally been called,
simply, musicals.

5. MODERN MUSICALS
• are by turns funny, touching, dramatic, and
decadent. While nothing can beat the classics
like The Sound of Music and Singing In The
Rain, more recent musicals have the
advantage of fantastic locations, stunning
costumes, special effects, and modern
songs, too.
• Musicals contain four basic elements : the
book, the music, the lyrics, and the
dancing.

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• The book is the story also known as the
libretto. It provides the structure and
stability for the basis of the musical.
• Dance, music, dialogue and lyrics are
integrated to produce the musical,
sometimes with adaptations.
• Music can be intrumental, vocal, or
both.
• In some cases, the books have been
written by composers for the show.

7. • In Musical theatre, the music that was
included was familiar to the audience, it also
served to display the talents of the
performers.
• Music helps create characterization,
advances the plot, develops important
situations or develops actions. Music has
allowed for shows to achieve great
effectiveness in telling their stories.
• Some dances are used just for entertainment,
while other dances are used to help tell the
story or to set a mood.

8. • A choreographer is usually the person who
created dances especially for the show.
• Lyrics are written by the composer and lyricist to fit
the music. Their purpose is usually to contribute to
the telling of the story or explaining of the
character’s feelings.
• Ancient Greeks commonly used music and dance
in some of their stage stories and tragedies.
• Theatre with song and dance became more popular
in the 1600-1700s.

9. AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRES
• has roots in European operatta, which has brought to
America by émigré composers.
• It was revamped to the American Taste by composers
Victor Herbert, Sigmund Romberg and Jerome Kern,
known for his landmark Show Boat.
• The opening of Oklahoma in 1943 began the modern
musical ear of musical theatre. Composer Richard
Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein soon became
the most widely-known team in the history of musical
theatre.

10. • In the 1950’s and 1960’s, there emerged
many teams that contributed to popular
musicals.
• Examples are :
Frederick Loewe and lyricist Alan Jay
Lerner, who wrote My Fair Lady.
Leonard Bernstein and lyricist
Stephen, who created West Side Story
in 1957 based on Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet.

11. The musical comedy started around the 1960’s.
Musicals now are found to deal with an
enormous range of new subject matter and
styles.
 Grease (1972) was a rock and roll musical
centered on the lives of high school students
in the 1950’s.
 Hair (1957) was another type of musical that
dealt with young Americans during the
Vietnam War in the 1960s.

12. • Stephen Sondheim was a composer and lyricist
who gained prominence during the 1970s and
1980s. He gave a creative twist and sophistication
to lyrics that gained him wide praise.
• A prominent British composer who should be
highlighted is Andrew Lloyd Webber. Probably
one of the most successful composers in his
time, he was known internationally for his many
successful British musicals following in the
1970s. His hits were : Jesus Christ Superstar
(1971) , Evita (1978), Cats (1981), Phantom of the
Opera (1986).

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