* Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, the 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne

The sing along concept is still used today, especially with younger audiences such as High School Musical.

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.

His output varies from the sublime to the ridiculous, and he showed a sense of humor not often associated with sacred music: for example, one of his motets satirizes poor singers ( his setting of Super flumina Babylonis, for five voices ) which includes stuttering, stopping and starting, and general confusion ; it is related in concept if not in style to Mozart's A Musical Joke.

The original concept album received critical accolades, with Rolling Stone raving that the " dazzling score covers nearly all the pop bases ", Kurt Ganzl's Blackwell Guide to the Musical Theatre on Record telling readers about the " thrilling exposition of an exciting piece of modern musical theater occurring before the event " and Time declaring that the " rock symphonic synthesis was ripe with sophistication and hummable tunes ".

In 1957 he wrote Towards a Conception of Musical Experimentation ( Pour un concept d ' expérimentation musicale ).

This concept can be traced back to suggestions in the rhythmic chapter of Henry Cowell's book New Musical Resources, but is also related here to inspirations from astrology, into which Gann was drawn by the writings of composer / astrologer Dane Rudhyar.

He was the first to play the role of " The Russian " on the 1984 concept album Chess, and performed the same role on stage in the 1986 world première West End production in London, for which he was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award in category Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Musical.

When I went to IRCAM ... there was this concept of the Musical Assistant.

* Musical mode, a concept that involves scale and melody type

After his graduation from USC, Rock Theatre director Greg Holford adapted the concept to his new position with a youth performing arts ensemble called Kids of the Century ( formerly City of Los Angeles Children's Chorus ), in partnership with Musical Director Terry Danne.

Most recently she recorded " Mama Was A Rock ( Daddy Was A Rolling Stone )" in 1996 with BR5-49 for the compilation CD " Rig Rock Deluxe: A Musical Salute To The American Truck Driver ", and " Trixie's Diesel-Stop Cafe " with The Dixie Bee-Liners on their 2009 bluegrass concept album " Susanville ".

GlobalVision releases include a new concept recording of Dracula, the Musical and a new studio recording of Jekyll & Hyde: Resurrection

In the early 1920s, dance studies ( dance practice, critical theory, Musical analysis and history ) began to be considered an academic discipline.

* Musical set theory concerns the application of combinatorics and group theory to music ; beyond the fact that it uses finite sets it has nothing to do with mathematical set theory of any kind.

They were somewhat aware of the situation with regards to the rumours, but did not take them entirely seriously — possibly because the UK's New Musical Express famously published an article on the Beatles-as-Klaatu theory under the title " Deaf Idiot Journalist Starts Beatle Rumour ".

Johann Kuhnau in his The Musical Charlatan ( Der musikalische Quack-Salber, 1700 ) defined the " true virtuoso " once again emphasizing theory (" der wahre Virtuose ") describing the " highly gifted musician " (" der glückselige Musicus ") or " performer virtuoso " as having nothing more than practical facility.

Musical theorists like Allen Forte later systematized these data into musical set theory.

Musical set theory provides concepts for categorizing musical objects and describing their relationships.

Musical set theory is best regarded as a field that is not so much related to mathematical set theory, as an application of combinatorics to music theory with its own vocabulary.

Category: Musical set theory

Musical Theatre faculty include: Mr. Phil Briggs: Director of Choirs, Ms. Jennie Vaughan: Head of piano instruction and theory, Alex Peevy: Director of movement and stage combat and Technical Director for the Ray Karrer Theatre, and William Walker: Director of the History of Musical Theatre and director of the musicals.

Musical analyst Eric Chafe's study of Monteverdi's tonal language supports the collaboration theory and postulates that some of the sections in question, including the prologue, the coronation scene and the final duet, reflect Monteverdi's intentions and may have been written under his direct supervision.

to provide instruction of mandatory and optional courses in subjects related to theory, art history, general knowledge and selected languages for students of the degree programmes Musical Art and Visual Arts ;

Mason Gross offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, Theater and Visual Arts, Bachelor of Music, Master of Fine Arts in Theater and Visual Arts, Master of Education in Dance, Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts, Artist Diploma in Music, and MA and Ph. D. in composition, theory, and musicology.

The musical is to be adapted for Broadway in 2012, retitled Chaplin – A Musical.

The Musical, the musical commentary accompanying Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

* The new musical TULLY ( In No Particular Order ), which appeared in the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival, loosely adapts the poems of Catullus while retaining the non-linear structure of the published edition, exploring his relationships with both Clodia and Juventius, renamed Julie, and the timeless nature of memory and love.

Dublin also has many acclaimed dramatic, musical and operatic companies, including Festival Productions, Lyric Opera Productions, The Pioneers Musical & Dramatic Society, The Glasnevin Musical Society, Second Age Theatre Company, Opera Theatre Company, and Opera Ireland.

* 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate ( 1, 077 performances ), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.

Bob Dunn of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies introduced the electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing with his January 1935 Decca recordings, departing almost entirely from Hawaiian musical influence and heading towards Jazz and Blues.

Another French effort, Jacques Demy's homage to the MGM musical: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort ( 1967 ) in which Kelly appeared, was popular in France and nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music and Score of a Musical Picture ( Original or Adaptation ) but performed poorly, elsewhere.

The Musical, a musical loosely based on the 1665 plague

* Worst Musical Extravaganza: At Long Last Love ( early 1970s musical starring Burt Reynolds )

The Station Theatre hosts a variety of plays staged by the Hayling Island Amateur Dramatics Society, Hayling Musical Society, musical events and films throughout the year.

* Hot Spot ( musical ), a 1963 Musical

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

* Musical keyboard, a set of adjacent keys or levers used to play a musical instrument

On April 18, 2010, Grammer made his Broadway musical debut playing the role of Georges in a revival of the Jerry Herman / Harvey Fierstein musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

1976 saw the release of the low-budget comic musical, The First Nudie Musical, released by Paramount.

* Charles Hindmarsh, known as The Yorkshire Musical Saw Player, has played the musical saw throughout the UK.

MIDI (; short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface ) is an electronic musical instrument industry specification that enables a wide variety of digital musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another.

He returned to Broadway in 1984 to star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, which saw him earn another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor ( Musical ).

* Musical composition, an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music

* Musical instrument, a device created or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds

* Musical Instrument Digital Interface, an industry-standard protocol that enables electronic musical instruments, computers and other electronic equipment to communicate and synchronize with each other