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    Vaudeville was a popular form of entertainment in the US and Canada from the 1880s to the early 1930s, consisting of a series of unrelated acts like musicians, dancers, animal acts, and short plays. It developed from various influences like minstrel shows and freak shows. In the early 20th century on Broadway, translations of European operettas were performed, and the play Lightnin' set a record by reaching over 1,000 performances. With advances in recording technology, electronic music emerged in the 20th-21st centuries, using devices like tape recorders and synthesizers to create unconventional sounds beyond traditional instruments. Composer John Cage experimented with silence in his piece "Four Minutes and Thirty

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    Vaudeville was a popular form of entertainment in the US and Canada from the 1880s to the early 1930s, consisting of a series of unrelated acts like musicians, dancers, animal acts, and short plays. It developed from various influences like minstrel shows and freak shows. In the early 20th century on Broadway, translations of European operettas were performed, and the play Lightnin' set a record by reaching over 1,000 performances. With advances in recording technology, electronic music emerged in the 20th-21st centuries, using devices like tape recorders and synthesizers to create unconventional sounds beyond traditional instruments. Composer John Cage experimented with silence in his piece "Four Minutes and Thirty

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    Vaudeville was a popular form of entertainment in the US and Canada from the 1880s to the early 1930s, consisting of a series of unrelated acts like musicians, dancers, animal acts, and short plays. It developed from various influences like minstrel shows and freak shows. In the early 20th century on Broadway, translations of European operettas were performed, and the play Lightnin' set a record by reaching over 1,000 performances. With advances in recording technology, electronic music emerged in the 20th-21st centuries, using devices like tape recorders and synthesizers to create unconventional sounds beyond traditional instruments. Composer John Cage experimented with silence in his piece "Four Minutes and Thirty

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    Vaudeville and Broadway

    Vaudeville was a theatrical


    genre of variety entertainment popular in the U.S and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Called "the heart of American show business," vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades. Series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Includes popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a vaudevillian. Vaudeville developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque.

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    A promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns, trapeze artists and costumed dogs

    Broadway In the early years


    of the 20th century, translations of popular late19th century continental operettas were joined by the "Princess Theatre". During this time, the play Lightnin' became the first Broadway show to reach 700 performances. From then, it would go on to become the first show to reach 1,000 performances. It was the longest-running Broadway show until being overtaken performance totals by Abie's Irish Rose in 1925.

    Poster of a Broadway showing performers on it

    Electronic Music

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    With the advancement in technology, many composers are experimenting with new sound sources such as electronic, environmental, and other non- tonal sounds. Traditional instruments are used but in a different way. Even computers, cassette tapes, recorders and synthesizers are used.

    Electronic music is produced by electronic devices recorded on magnetic tape and played through amplifiers. These produce unconventional sounds that cause composers to device another kind of notation.

    John Cage

    - Four Minutes and Thirty- three seconds


    American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. - He believes that listener must supply the sense which exists in sound.
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