Rock in the Musical Theatre

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Church
Keyword(s):  
Rock Music ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Hard Rock ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
University Professor ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
The Many ◽  
Source Of Information

Rock ’n’ roll music and its offshoots, including pop, hard rock, rap, r&b, funk, folk, and many others, have become the standard language of today’s musical theatre. Theatre singers, performers, and coaches need a source of information on these styles, their origins, and their performance practices. Rock in the Musical Theatre: A Guide for Singers fills this need. Today’s musical theatre training programs are now including rock music in their coursework and rock songs and musicals in their repertoires. This is a text for those trainees, mentors, courses, and productions. It will also be of great value to working professionals, teachers, music directors, and coaches less familiar with rock styles, or who want to improve their rock-related skills. The author, an experienced music director, vocal coach, and university professor, and an acknowledged expert on rock music in the theatre, examines the many aspects of performing rock music in the theatre and offers practical advice through a combination of aesthetic and theoretical study; extensive discussions of musical, vocal, and acting techniques; and chronicles of coaching sessions. The book also includes advice from working actors, casting directors, and music directors who specialize in rock music for the stage.

Musical Values in Rock Theatre Songs

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-88
Author(s):  
Joseph Church
Keyword(s):  
Rock Music ◽  
Hard Rock ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Rock N Roll

Here the nature of rock music is broken down into its components, with an emphasis on rhythm. In rock, the melody and the accompaniment are both rhythmic; this chapter contains an extensive discussion of how melody and accompaniment interact to create the essential rock element of groove. The notions of rhythmic accuracy and rhythmic freedom are discussed at length from both aesthetic and technical standpoints. Among the primary topics are meter, tempo, feel, improvisation, tension and resolution, and underlying rhythmic motors in rock. A singer’s approach to melody is examined by genre, including extensive examples: rock ’n’ roll, hard rock, pop and pop-rock, blues and gospel, soul and r&b, rap, and ballads.

Process—Coaching Sessions

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-180
Author(s):  
Joseph Church
Keyword(s):  
Rock Music ◽  
Musical Analysis ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Many

Part III focuses on the application of the theory, history, aesthetics, character and musical analysis, and technique discussed in chapters 1–6. In the form of chronicles of coaching and music direction situations for eleven rock theatre songs, the reader sees the principles of earlier chapters in action. Attention is again paid to stylistic variety in the material and to the many influences rock music has exerted on the theatre, in both musical and dramatic terms. The importance of upholding both believability and genuine rock aesthetics, and striking the appropriate balance between them, is a theme common to all the sessions. Each coaching is broken down into the background, dramatic context, and performance practices of the material at hand, an analysis of the song in the rock historical continuum, and suggestions for performance germane to the premise of the book: creating effective characterization and telling the story of a song or musical while maintaining an authentic rock performance.

Rock Songs

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Joseph Church
Keyword(s):  
Rock Music ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Full Period ◽  
Rock N Roll

Chapter 6 brings the discussion of acting and music together in examples of rock songs, some of which musical theatre singers might add to their repertoire. Each song is examined in terms of the important points raised in earlier chapters: lyrical content, form, tone, style, groove, purpose, and historical context. The selections cover the full period of the growth of rock music, from its rock ’n’ roll roots to the present day, encompassing as wide a variety of styles and sub-genres as possible, and explaining common crossovers among styles. Suggestions are offered for performance approaches by musical theatre singers to these and related songs.

Psychedelic Illusions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Weinel
Keyword(s):  
Rock Music ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Production Techniques ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Conceptual Meaning

This chapter explores how music technologies and electronic studio processes relate to altered states of consciousness in popular music. First, an overview of audio technologies such as multi-tracking, echo, and reverb is given, in order to explore their illusory capabilities. In the rock ’n’ roll music of the 1950s, studio production techniques such as distortion provided a means through which to enhance the energetic and emotive properties of the music. Later, in surf rock, effects such as echo and reverb allowed the music to evoke conceptual visions of teenage surf culture. In the 1960s and 1970s, these approaches were developed in psychedelic rock music, and space rock/space jazz. Here, warped sounds and effects allowed the music to elicit impressions of psychedelic experiences, outer space voyages, and Afrofuturist mythologies. By exploring these areas, this chapter shows how sound design can communicate various forms of conceptual meaning, including the psychedelic experience.

ADVERTISING IN PEDIATRICS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-346
Author(s):  
CHARLES D. MAY
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
The Many ◽  
Commercial Organizations ◽  
Source Of Information

THE WELFARE of children is greatly improved by the many essential and useful products provided through the enterprise of commercial organizations. An important service is rendered the practicing physician when such products are brought to his attention by appropriate advertising. Advertising in a medical journal is a favorite means for accomplishing this purpose. A twofold benefit results; to the purveyor of the product, and to the physician—who not only becomes acquainted with a product he may use to the benefit of his patients, but also, through the financial support the journal receives, he may be served by a better medical literature. It is evident that the advertising pages should be considered as a source of information. As such, these pages impose a grave responsibility upon us; it is our aim to have all the information brought to the readers of Pediatrics both accurate and clear.

Overview of Nine Computerized, Home-Based Auditory-Training Programs for Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 405-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Zhang ◽  
Aimee Miller ◽  
Melanie McNutt Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Auditory Training ◽  
Intensive Training ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Narrative Literature ◽  
Narrative Literature Review ◽  
The Many ◽  
Google Search

Background: Computerized, home-based auditory-training programs could be attractive to cochlear implant (CI) recipients who cannot obtain direct intensive training services and also to busy clinicians who would like to enable CI recipients to benefit from these programs. However, it is difficult for either group to know which of the many programs available might best suit individual needs. Purpose: Selecting a computerized home-based program can be challenging because each offers different features. This article provides an overview of currently available programs to help clinicians and recipients choose one that is most suitable. Data Collection and Analysis: A narrative literature review and an advanced Google search of Web sites linked to auditory-training programs were conducted. This overview builds on and updates information from previous literature. Results: Nine computerized, home-based auditory-training programs were identified for overview. Twenty-nine information items and features for each of the nine programs are presented, categorized by general product and purchase information, design features of the training paradigm, and auditory and communication targets. Conclusions: This article provides a descriptive overview of computerized, home-based auditory-training programs for the use of clinicians, CI recipients, researchers, and hearing aid users.

Queering Brechtian feminism: Breaking down gender binaries in musical theatre pedagogical performance practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherrill Gow
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Political View ◽  
Inclusive Practice ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Theatre Pedagogy

This article explores how musical theatre pedagogy might begin to dismantle modes of practice that perpetuate exclusion and a dualistic, gendered perspective. I draw on my experience of directing postgraduate musical theatre students at Mountview in a production of Pippin (1972). Casting a trans man as Pippin – in many respects an archetypal male hero role – set in motion a process of queering and subverting norms. However, casting is only one element of creating an inclusive practice: in this work, I developed a hybrid approach that honoured students’ identities and experiences and took a critical, political view of the material being presented. My approach brings together Elin Diamond’s feminist theoretical framing of Brecht with queer concepts including heteronormativity and chrononormativity, which are then applied to David Barnett’s practical explanation of a Brechtian process. I argue that feminist and queer approaches can work together to meaningfully critique hegemonic forces influencing musical theatre training and production processes.

‘Living in the Past’?: value discourses in progressive rock fanzines

Popular Music ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRIS ATTON
Keyword(s):  
Rock Music ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Symphonic Poem ◽  
Passion Play ◽  
The Past ◽  
Progressive Rock ◽  
Classical Models ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
The Uk

At the height of its success in the first half of the 1970s, progressive rock was perhaps a surprisingly popular genre; surprising since its exponents strove to fuse classical models of composition and arrangement with electric instruments and extend the form of rock music from the single song to the symphonic poem, even the multimovement suite. Album and concert sales were extremely high; even albums that were greeted with less than critical approval (itself a rare occurrence) such as Jethro Tull's A Passion Play and Yes's Tales from Topographic Oceans (both 1973) sold well (the latter reached number one in the UK Top 10 album charts upon its release). Today, the dominant critical characterisation of progressive rock is of overblown, pretentious musicians in ridiculous garb surrounded by banks of keyboards playing bombastic, overlong compositions in time signatures that you couldn't dance to: a music as far removed from ‘real’ rock ‘n’ roll as could be imagined; a music that failed both as rock music but also as classical music. (All these negative characteristics are to be found, for instance, in David Thomas's (1998) coverage of Yes's latest UK tour.) This characterisation is only partly unfair. It arose in the wake of punk, which sought to sweep away what its proponents saw as the empty virtuosity of rock dinosaurs. Punk sought to reclaim rock music for `ordinary' people to be played in intimate venues - not stadia - by people who didn't need to be conservatoire trained.

scholarly journals The life of the line: A sketch by Paulo Mendes da Rocha for the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo

REVISTARQUIS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Pisani
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Museum Of Contemporary Art ◽  
The Many ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Arte Contemporáneo

Resumen En oposición a la tendencia de considerar el dibujo arquitectónico como una simple fuente de información sobre el proyecto, o limitarse a contemplar su eventual belleza, este ensayo pretende analizar un boceto en su especificidad. Para hacer este tipo de experimento, el texto utiliza uno de los muchos bocetos realizados por Paulo Mendes da Rocha durante la preparación del proyecto para el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Sao Paulo (1974-1975). El objetivo no es aislar artificialmente un dibujo entre los muchos otros que le dan una autonomía que no le es propia, sino adoptar un nuevo punto de vista, a través del análisis de un diseño dentro del universo de diseño específico del arquitecto brasileño.Abstract Against the tendency to consider the drawing in architecture as a simple source of information about the project, or simply to contemplate its potential beauty, this essay aims to analyse one it in its specificity. To carry out this experiment, the text uses one of the many sketches made by Paulo Mendes da Rocha during the preparation of the project for the Museum of Contemporary Art from University of São Paulo (1974-1975). The aim is not to artificially isolate one drawing among the many, giving it an autonomy that it does not possess, but to adopt a new point of view on the universe of the Brazilian architect.

scholarly journals Áthangszerelt finálé - Hard Rock Hotel | Budapest, Nagymező utca

Metszet ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 58-63
Author(s):  
János Dombóvári
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Hard Rock ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
Corner Site

Architects: László SZÁSZ and Erzsébet HAJNÁDY Following the established business model of the Hard Rock company design concepts are handled by their local franchise partner. Here the decision was made to respect the existing building's elevations, whilst adding a three storey high golden crown that responds to the location, Nagymező Utca's, Broadway like ambitions. To lift a corner site architecturally with a bold, traditionally, out of context statement. This approach completes the problem of a poorly massed streetscape whilst adding a taste of Rock 'n' Roll rebellion.

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