Both types of courses tend to emphasize a balance among the acquisition of musical repertory ( often emphasized through listening examinations ), study and analysis of these works, biographical and cultural details of music and musicians, and writing about music, perhaps through music criticism.

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as " The Man Who Owns Broadway ".

Both in-studio and on-the-street ( New York City ) interview segments with Faithfull and Mason were interspersed with extensive biographical and musical footage.

A biographical musical titled You Don't Nomi is in development by French playwright Baptiste Delval and director Nicolas Guilleminot.

Although the title of the musical is taken from the group's 1975 chart-topper " Mamma Mia ", the plot is fictional, not biographical.

In 1993 Proby appeared in the Jack Good biographical musical Good Rockin ' Tonite – as himself.

Then he reappeared on stage as himself in the biographical musical Good Rockin ' Tonight, followed by playing Roy Orbison in Only The Lonely.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is an American biographical musical comedy, released in 1939 and directed by H. C. Potter.

The program has also often aired serialized programming in several different genres, such as comedy, musical concerts, biographical series on entertainment and pop culture figures and live concerts.

A biographical musical, Laughter in the Rain, produced by Bill Kenwright and Laurie Mansfield, starring Wayne Smith as Sedaka, had its world premiere at the Churchill Theatre, in the London borough of Bromley, on 4 March 2010.

He apparently holds a great interest in musical history, as he ’ s shown a surprising amount of biographical knowledge about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The piece is undated, but scholars usually assign a date around 1893 on the basis of musical and biographical evidence.

Ned Kelly is a 1970 British-Australian biographical ( and part musical ) film.

She created, along with Philip Himberg, a one woman biographical musical Carry It On which premiered at Geva Theatre Center October 12-November 14, 2010.

It provides the biographical context of every composition along with musical analysis or commentary.

Hunter's life was documented in Alberta Hunter: My Castle's Rockin ( 1998 ), a documentary written by Chris Albertson and narrated by pianist Billy Taylor, and in Cookin ' at the Cookery, a biographical musical by Marion J. Caffey that has toured the United States in recent years with Ernestine Jackson as Hunter.

In the biographical musical Words and Music ( 1948 ), a " Slaughter on Tenth Avenue " ballet sequence is performed by Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen.

Not only was it the first dictionary of musical terms written in the German language, it was the first to contain both terms and biographical information about composers and performers up to the early 18th century.

Yellen's work in Broadway theatre includes his Tony-nominated libretto for the musical, The Rothschilds, with music by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick ; Rex, a musical about the life and loves of Henry VIII with music by Richard Rodgers-recently revised with Sheldon Harnick, and given a well received revival at the Toronto Light Opera Company ; and Strangers, a biographical drama about Sinclair Lewis.

Most Hollywood pictures adhered closely to a genre — Western, slapstick comedy, musical, animated cartoon, biopic ( biographical picture )— and the same creative teams often worked on films made by the same studio.

His literary work included treatises on the steam engine and on iron construction, biographical studies of famous engineers, including Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sir William Fairbairn and Sir William Siemens, several books on musical subjects and on whist, and many papers for reviews and scientific periodicals.

On 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman regarding his plans to make a biographical film on her life.

Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, The Buddy Holly Story ( 1978 ).

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Contains an autobiographical afterword by C. L. Moore, and a biographical introduction by Del Rey, which is carefully noncommittal about the influence of her personal life on her writing.

Day subsequently took on more dramatic roles, including her 1955 portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in the biographical film of Etting's life, Love Me or Leave Me, in which she co-starred with James Cagney.

In 2008 Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a biographical film based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury prize and Gomorra, a crime drama film, directed by Matteo Garrone won the Gran Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

Hansie is a biographical film released in 2008 about the life of Hansie Cronje that aims to portray him in a positive light and as a victim of circumstance lured by an evil system of illegal gambling and bookmakers from India.

A life for language: A biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield.

He actively supported the court Society of Miniaturists, commissioning several volumes including the Siyer-i Nebi, the most heavily illustrated biographical work on the life of Muhammad, the Book of Skills, the Book of Festivities and the Book of Victories.

Literary scholars say that biographical interpretations of literature are unreliable in attributing authorship, and that catalogues of similarities between incidents in the plays and the life of an aristocrat are flawed as arguments because similar lists have been drawn up for many competing candidates, such as Francis Bacon and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

He sketched biographical treatises on Europe and Asia, and in early and middle life produced numerous tracts on the political and theological controversies of his day, as well as on ethical subjects.

The literature on Puritans, particularly biographical literature on individual Puritan ministers, became large already in the 17th century, and indeed the interests of Puritans in the narratives of early life and conversions made the recording of the internal lives important to them.

Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories ; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective.

Modern scholars largely reject such efforts to garner biographical details from fictive texts preferring instead to interpret the diverse characters and themes as representing the poet's own contrastive perceptions of contemporary life and thought.

Though rooted in factual biographical details of Gull's life, Moore admitted taking substantial fictional license: for example, the real-life Gull suffered a stroke ; Moore fictionalizes this event as a theophany, with Gull seeing " Jahbulon ", a Freemasonic figure, fundamentally altering Gull's world view and indirectly leading to the murders.

In 1987, Bertolucci directed the epic The Last Emperor, a biographical film telling the life story of Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the last Emperor of China.

Late in his life, Derrida participated in two biographical documentaries, D ' ailleurs, Derrida Elsewhere by Saafa Fathy ( 1999 ), and Derrida by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman ( 2002 ).

This portrait of Alexandria during the first half of the twentieth century includes a biographical account of E. M. Forster, his life in the city, his relationship with Constantine Cavafy, and his influence on Lawrence Durrell.

In January 2011 The Painter, a biographical play on his life by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, premiered at the Arcola Theatre in London.

Although a number of the biographical particulars of the movie are Hollywood-ized fiction ( omitting the fact that Cohan divorced and remarried, for example, and taking some liberties with the chronology of Cohan's life ), care was taken to make the sets, costumes and dance steps match the original stage presentations.

Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I.

It is not a biographical movie, and in the introduction describes itself as " not the story of his life, but a fairytale about this great spinner of fairy tails.

A considerable amount of information about the life of Archilochus has come down to the modern age via his surviving work, the testimony of other authors and inscriptions on monuments, yet it all needs to be viewed with caution — the biographical tradition is generally unreliable and the fragmentary nature of the poems doesn't really support inferences about his personal history.