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Music and the Theater

Published on Mar 29, 2016

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Music and the Theater

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Music and acting have been done together for a very long time.

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Today, we are most familiar with this through movies or music videos.

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Today we will look at 3 big kinds of "musical theater".

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Opera

  • No spoken words
  • Very often in a foreign language
  • Based on myths, or stories from the 1500-1700
  • Big, full voice with vibrato
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A primary difference between opera and musical theater is the sound of the singers voice.

The word for this is tone, or timbre -
the way an instrument or person sounds

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Musical Theater

  • Very often in English
  • All kinds of stories, from fairy tales, books, based on "modern" events.
  • Can be very funny
  • Loud, bright sound with no vibrato
  • Spoken dialogue
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Film Musicals

  • Many languages
  • Can be remakes of musical theater
  • Many different musical styles
  • Sometimes without human actors
  • Voice can be quiet, or loud, but usually very specific to that character
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Orange, black, or white review

Opera has spoken words

  • Orange - Yes
  • Black - No
  • White - Sometimes
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Musical theater is funny

  • Orange - always
  • Black - never
  • White - sometimes
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Film musicals have to have human actors

  • Orange - no
  • Black - yes
  • White - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Which style has vibrato

  • Orange - opera
  • Black - film musicals
  • White - musical theater
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Which style can be quiet?

  • Orange - Musical theater
  • Black - opera
  • White - film musicals