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    Music of Stage and Screen

    By

    Bianca Brewer

    Ms. Watts

    1st
    March 1, 2011

    1
    The Story of Music
    I. Operetta

    A. Details

    1. First was a short comic opera

    1. Romantic story

    A. Told in spoken dialogue, singing, and dancing

    2. Operetta in America

    A. Three of America’s most successful composers

    1. All born in Europe


    2. Victor Herbert, Rudolph Friml, and Sigmund

    Romberg

    B. History

    1. Jacques Offenbach

    B. Started Operetta in 1855

    C. The father of operetta

    D. Wrote more than 90 operetta’s in his life

    1. Best known was ‘Tales of Hoffmann’

    C. The pause of Operetta

    1. People were getting bored of operetta

    A. This happened in the late 1920’s

    B. They wanted more realistic films

    1. Also wanted better sound

    C. before it was ended a musical saved it

    1. Called ‘Show Boat’

    II. Vaudeville and Cabaret

    A. about

    1. where people went to be entertained

    2
    A. there was no TV in the 1880’s

    B. only did 2 shows a day

    C. Vaudeville lasted about 50 years

    1. For ten-cents a person could see a lot

    A. Best actresses/ actors

    B. Comedians

    C. And singers

    3. early performers

    A. Houdini

    1. The world’s Handcuff king & Prisoner Breaker

    B. Jimmy Durante

    1. One of America’s most loved and long-lasting stars

    C. Eddie Foy

    1. Often made Headlines

    D. Steven Little Foys

    A. How it ended in US

    1. Hollywood studios got the best Performers

    A. Other theaters were shut down

    B. Only 12 theaters in America in the mid-1920’s

    1. Replaced the acts with on screen movies

    C. Great Depression

    1. Had the biggest impact on the end of Vaudeville

    2. in 1930’s

    4. Moved to Europe

    A. Later this was all over the world

    III. Musicals

    A. Information

    3
    1. 20th and 21st century

    5. Began on Broadway

    A. Started 100 years ago

    B. Some musicals were introduced by Walt Disney

    C. In the 1960’s they got a bunch of new composers

    6. The music we have today began here

    B. Performers

    1. George M. Cohan

    A. One of the pioneers in the American Musical

    B. Wrote some of Americas patriotic tunes

    2. Irving Berlin

    A. Wrote many famous tunes

    1. ‘White Christmas’ ‘Easter Parade’

    2. The unofficial second national anthem

    7. Elton John

    C. Performances

    1. Guys and Dolls

    A. Started in 1950

    2. West Side Story

    A. Late 1940’s

    IV. Music for Movies

    1. Background

    A. Sets/ creates tone and mood in movies

    B. Gives the actors a signal when to play their part

    2. Information

    A. Early performances were difficult

    4
    1. No music or dialogue

    2. Only used captions and not many

    B. Classical music

    1. Began in 1915

    A. Used orchestra first

    B. Only large theaters had it in their

    movies, at first

    C. Scores

    A. Took between three and six months

    to write

    B. A copy would be sent with film

    D. The talkies

    1. Sound effects and dialogue

    2. In 1920’s

    3. In Hollywood more than 500 movies/ films

    were made per year

    V. Easy listening and Commercial music

    A. Theory

    1. If a store plays music then the costumer will be

    happy and buy something

    2. Played light and up-beat

    3. Joyful and well known songs

    A. Usually a radio station

    B. Faith music

    1. Percy Faith

    A. The most famous light music arranger

    5
    C. Commercial music

    1. Are made to stay in peoples’ minds

    A. Most famous was the Coca-Cola commercial/ tune

    Conclusion:

    6
    Bianca Brewer

    Ms. Watts

    1st

    March 4, 2011

    TITLE

    First paragraph. All paragraphs in the body of the report are indented and

    double-spaced.

    Additional paragraphs.

    7
    WORKS CITED
    Stacy, Lee. The Story of Music: Music of Stage and Screen . 7. Danbury, CT: Grolier
    Educational, 2001. 80. Print.

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