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hollywood musical
midterm
30
Music
Undergraduate 1
02/13/2012

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Singin in the Rain
Definition
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

Debbie Reynonlds as Kathy Selden
Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood
Term
42nd Street
Definition
Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh

Director:Lloyd Bacon
Ginger Rogers as Ann

Composer: Harry Warren
Choreographer: Busby Berkeley
Term
Gigi
fairy tale
Definition
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actress: Leslie Caron as gigi
Actor: Maurice Chevalier
Orchestrator: Conrad Salinger
Term
Swing time
Definition
Actor: Fred Astaire
Actress: Ginger Rogers
Producer: Pandro Berman
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Hermes Pan
Director: George Stevens
Term
Swing time
Definition
Actor: Fred Astaire
Actress: Ginger Rogers
Producer: Pandro Berman
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Hermes Pan
Term
Night and Day 1946

FOLK
Definition
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actor/actresses: Cary Grant as Cole Porter
Alexis Smith as Linda Porter
Monty Woolley as himself
Composer: Everett Brown
Music: Ray Hindorff
Term
Love me tonight
Definition
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
actor: Maurice Chevalier as Maurice Courtelin
Jeanette MacDonald as Princess Jeaneette

Composer is John Lipold
Term
Pastiche
Definition
imitating or using musical teaching of differing or from periods
Term
Long joke song
Definition
The joke takes a verse and the punch line is at the end of the verse
Term
Short Joke song
Definition
Like cole porter's list songs where each line or two is a short joke
Term
Revue
Definition
No plot, mostly singing, comedy, and sketches often feature new, up and coming tonight
Term
Charm song
Definition
Lighthearted lyrical song (I feel Pretty)
Term
Bob Fosse
Definition
One of the most important choreographers of musicals, utilized increased sensuality by incorporating hip movements, ballet, jazz, and modern dance syles
did Damn Yankees, Sweet Charity, The Little Prince
Term
show biz anthems
Definition
Songs to get entertainers excited about they do
(make em laugh)
Term
Pennies from Heaven
Definition
Dennis potter writer for BBC TV show, Actor lip syncs to music from different periods. music is often ironic, constrasting with what happens in the scene
Term
ASCAP
BMI
Definition
American Society of composers, authors, nad pusblishers
Societies responsible for collecting royalties on behalf of musicians. These groups sell various kinds of rights and licenses
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Mechanical Rights
Definition
rights to cover a song by another artist
Term
Torch Song
Definition
song about being in love with someone the singer can't have
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Grand rights
Definition
Rights to produce a musical, opera, or play. Negotiated directly between the producers and the group holding the rights. No arrangements are allowed by the performers
Term
sync rights
Definition
rights to use music by an artist in a move.
pricey
prices negotiated between the producers and the group holding the rights
if studio hires a composer to write original music for a film, though, the studio, not the composer, holds the rights to the music
Term
Dance dissolve
Definition
dance is incorporated into non dance movement
i.e. walking which turns into dancing
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meet cute
Definition
cute and comical way the main couple meet each other
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traveling song
Definition
performance of the song moves from one character and locale to another
Term
Vernacular music
Definition
music in the style of ordinary people
Term
Film making techniques
Definition
camera movement: zoom and pan
camera angles: close ups, 2 shots, wide shots
cameras interplay with choreography
Actor's movement
lighting
breaking the 4th wall
Term
Auto-dissolve
Definition
alternate or orchestration or song in which it works its way in (sound effects)
Term
video dissolve
Definition
visual, one scene to anotehr or one shot to another
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Character dissolve
Definition
character and personality transition
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Applause 1929
Definition
Diagetic
Show musical
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Actors/Actresses: Helen Morgan as Kitty Darling
Joan Deers as April Darling
Fuller Mellish Fj as Hitch Nelson
Composer: Earnest Zanthorsky
Lyiricist: Lee Ddom
Music: Charles Strauss
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De-Lovely 2004 FOLK
Definition
Director: Irwin Winkler
Actor/actresses: Kevin Kline as Cole Porter
Ashley Judd as Linda Porter
Jonathan Pryce as Gabe
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