Music which occurs within the actual world of the characters. e.g., the characters are in a nightclub where there’s music, or they put a quarter into a jukebox, or pick up a guitar and start to...
Refers to the piano-vocal version of a musical. In developmental phases, the score contains all the dialogue which happens while music is being played; in publication, dialogue is often truncated and...
Agogic refers to duration. Agogic accents are a result of notes which are noticeably longer (or shorter) than the notes around them. O-klahoma where the wind…. Maria, Maria Ma-reee-ia Wou-ldn’t it be loverly? Sunrise, sunset. Swift-lee fly the...
A high-energy number placed very late in the show, usually comic. It refers to the traditional (long ago) when the number would happen around 11:00pm, to rouse the audience just before it was time to go...
The process of determining possibilities for sung...
