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A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante . Set on the bare stage of a Broadway theater, the musical is centered on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. A Chorus Line provides a glimpse into the personalities of the ...
Ragtime is a 1981 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1975 historical novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. It is set in and around turn-of-the-century New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time. The film stars James Cagney, Mary Steenburgen ...
Up. opening sequence. The opening sequence to the 2009 Disney - Pixar film Up (sometimes referred to as " Married Life " after the accompanying instrumental piece, [ 1] the Up montage, or including the rest of the prologue The First 10 Minutes of Up[ 2]) has become known as a cultural milestone and a key element to the film's success. [citation ...
Musical analysis is the study of musical structure in either compositions or performances. [ 1] According to music theorist Ian Bent, music analysis "is the means of answering directly the question 'How does it work?'". [ 2] The method employed to answer this question, and indeed exactly what is meant by the question, differs from analyst to ...
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe and a libretto by Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe. Based on the novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux, it tells the tragic story of beautiful soprano Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious but ...
Sir Donald Francis Tovey 's Essays in Musical Analysis [1] [2] are a series of analytical essays on classical music. The essays came into existence as programme notes, written by Tovey, to accompany concerts given (mostly under his own baton) by the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh. Between 1935 and 1939, they were published in six volumes as Essays ...
Tim O'Brien was born on March 16, 1954, and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the youngest in a family of five children. At the age of 12, he first heard a Bob Dylan record, played by his older sister Mollie, afterwards deciding to take up music. Throughout his teens, he taught himself to play guitar, violin, and mandolin .
In music, notes are distinct and isolatable sounds that act as the most basic building blocks for nearly all of music. This discretization facilitates performance, comprehension, and analysis. [ 1] Notes may be visually communicated by writing them in musical notation .