In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

Caitlin Clarke ( May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004 ) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998 – 1999 Broadway musical Titanic.

Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction / fantasy fandom and a type of fan labor.

They advanced drastically in musical and lyrical sophistication: by the end they were quoting American writer William S. Burroughs (" A Different Kind of Tension "), declaiming their catechism in the anthem " I Believe ", and tuning in to a fantasy radio station on which their songs could be heard (" Radio Nine ").

The flexible fantasy framework of the show accommodates a considerable range of theatrical styles, from high melodrama to slapstick comedy, from whimsical and musical to all-out action and adventure.

Louis Kronenberger of PM said, " the musical fantasy not only has charm ; it shows a good deal of independence ... its charm must lie less in any story it tells than in the general mood it creates ; and it has created that mood by fusing a number of theatre elements as densely as possible ".

His next partner, Lucille Bremer, was featured in two lavish vehicles, both directed by Vincente Minnelli: the fantasy Yolanda and the Thief, which featured an avant-garde surrealistic ballet, and the musical revue Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), which featured a memorable teaming of Astaire with Gene Kelly to " The Babbit and the Bromide ," a Gershwin song Astaire had introduced with his sister Adele back in 1927.

Rigoletto is a 1993 musical fantasy / drama produced for Feature Films for Families and has been compared with Beauty and the Beast, The Man Without a Face, and The Phantom of the Opera.

The concept of matching animation to classical music was used as early as 1928 in Disney's cartoon series, the Silly Symphonies, but he wanted to go beyond the usual slapstick, and produce shorts where " sheer fantasy unfolds ... action controlled by a musical pattern has great charm in the realm of unreality.

It fitted the all-important musical sequences into a contrived fantasy adventure in which the group is pursued through a series of locales ( including Switzerland and The Bahamas ) by a band of Indian thuggee assassins bent on recovering a sacred ring which has come into Ringo's possession.

In 1970, Le Mesurier appeared in Ralph Thomas's Doctor in Trouble as the Purser ; he also made an appearance in Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, a romantic fantasy musical with a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner adapted from his book for the 1965 stage production of the same name, featuring Barbra Streisand in the main role.

The game's fantasy setting, musical style and action-adventure gameplay were adopted by many RPGs.

His work spans two continents, three languages, and nearly every film genre, including experimental film, documentary, melodrama, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume dramas, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and western.

* Dream with Music ( 1944 ), a musical fantasy starring Vera Zorina

Camberwick Green is notable for having no overt fantasy content apart from the musical box.

Denny described the musical style as " a combination of the South Pacific and the Orient ... what a lot of people imagined the islands to be like ... it's pure fantasy though.

Xanadu is a 1980 romantic musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald.

Learning for students was often kinesthetic, for example, through dramatic enactments of history and fantasy, and through musical exercises that were reminiscent of the patterns found on ancient Greek vases, depicting figures moving in parallel patterns.

The Nightmare Before Christmas, often promoted as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a 1993 American stop motion musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced / co-written by Tim Burton.

Général Boulanger inspired the Jean Renoir movie Elena and Her Men, a musical fantasy loosely based on the end of his political career.

Some episodes insert fantasy sequences – scenes shot like a Bollywood musical or a silent movie, for example.

The second series pushed the style further in an experimental direction: where the first series had a lot of dialogue and " off stage " scenes, the second focused more on the music and fantasy sequences, with additional songs and musical interludes used to move the plot forward rather than relying on dialogue as the first had done.

Although they are most remembered for the Death Wish sequels and Chuck Norris action pictures such as The Delta Force and Invasion U. S. A., and even the vigilante thriller Exterminator 2 ( the sequel to 1980 ’ s The Exterminator ), Cannon ’ s output was actually far more varied, with musical and comedy films like Breakin ’, Breakin ’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, The Last American Virgin, and the U. S. release of The Apple ; period romance pictures like Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 1981 ), Bolero, and Mata Hari ( 1985 ); science fiction and fantasy films like Hercules, Lifeforce and The Barbarians ; as well as serious pictures like John Cassavetes ’ Love Streams, Zeffirelli ’ s Otello ( a film version of the Verdi opera ), Norman Mailer ’ s Tough Guys Don ’ t Dance, Andrei Konchalovsky ’ s Runaway Train, and Shy People ; and action / adventure films such as the 3-D Treasure of the Four Crowns, King Solomon ’ s Mines, Cobra and American Ninja.

On his own, Jerry Mouse appears in a fantasy sequence in the 1945 Gene Kelly MGM musical film Anchors Aweigh.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

One of the latter was a Sondheim-Laurents musical ( now named Side Show ).

One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".

One composer who was influential in spreading the more serious style that Mozart and Haydn had formed is Muzio Clementi, a gifted virtuoso pianist who tied with Mozart in a musical " duel " before the emperor in which they each improvised and performed their compositions.

One player provides the underlying beat, or shita-byōshi, while the other builds on this rhythmical foundation with a unique and typically improvised musical composition ( ue-byōshi ).

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

In 1939, he was selected to be part of a musical revue " One for the Money " produced by the actress Katharine Cornell, who was known for finding and hiring talented young actors.

One such singer who has merged the Bhakti sangeet tradition of India with the western non-India music is Krishna Das and sells music records of his musical sadhana.

One example is Grand Pianola Music ( 1981 – 82 ), a humorous piece that purposely draws its content from musical cliches.

“ One finds in the biblical text ,” writes Alfred Sendrey, “ a sudden and unexplained upsurge of large choirs and orchestras, consisting of thoroughly organized and trained musical groups, which would be virtually inconceivable without lengthy, methodical preparation .” This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school, which taught not only prophets and holy men, but also sacred-rite musicians.

These are available for almost every musical instrument. One common way to mark progress is to have graded examinations, for example from grade 1 ( beginner ) to grade 8 ( ready to enter higher study at music school ).

* The 1954 Broadway musical The Golden Apple by librettist John Treville Latouche and composer Jerome Moross is freely adapted from the Iliad and the Odyssey, re-setting the action to the American state of Washington in the years after the Spanish-American War, with events inspired by the Iliad in Act One and events inspired by the Odyssey in Act Two.

Nash was the lyricist for the Broadway musical One Touch of Venus, collaborating with librettist S. J. Perelman and composer Kurt Weill.

One of the most influential American post-punk bands was Boston's Mission of Burma, who brought abrupt rhythmic shifts derived from hardcore into a highly experimental musical context.

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

One of the reasons for ragga's swift propagation is that it is generally easier and less expensive to produce than reggae performed on traditional musical instruments.

One of Moog's earliest musical customers was Wendy Carlos, whom he credits with providing feedback valuable to further development.

One of the oldest records of the word samba appeared in Pernambuco magazine's O Carapuceiro, dated February 1838, when Father Miguel Lopes Gama of Sacramento wrote against what he called the samba d ' almocreve – not referring to the future musical genre, but a kind of merriment ( dance drama ) popular for black people of that time.

One of the earliest explicit descriptions of the instrument, including its tuning, was in the Epitome musical by Jambe de Fer, published in Lyon in 1556.

Bernstein's score for the musical includes " Something's Coming ", " Maria ", " America ", " Somewhere ", " Tonight ", " Jet Song ", " I Feel Pretty ", " A Boy Like That ", " One Hand, One Heart ", " Gee, Officer Krupke ", and " Cool ".

One episode of the first season of Mission Impossible 1966 named " OLD MAN OUT " ( parts 1 and 2 ) makes use of a calliope as a musical instrument and also as a timing cue to the development of the story.

** Grease: You're the One that I Want !, a U. S. 2007 reality TV show casting the lead roles in revivals of the musical

In 2005, Lightstone Studios released a direct-to-DVD movie musical titled " One Smooth Stone ", which was later changed to " David and Goliath ".