Much of the musical repertoire written for harpsichord and organ from the period circa 1400 – 1800 can be played on the clavichord ; however, it does not have enough ( unamplified ) volume to participate in chamber music, with the possible exception of providing accompaniment to a soft baroque flute, recorder, or single singer.

" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Much less well-known is the musical " mimodrama " of Vittorio Monti, Noël de Pierrot a. k. a. A Clown's Christmas ( 1900 ), its score set to a pantomime by Fernand Beissier, one of the founders of the Cercle Funambulesque.

Much of the band ’ s enduring and unfashionable reputation stems from their emergence in the early 1980s as the most commercially successful band of the neo-progressive rock movement, an unexpected revival of the progressive rock musical style that had fallen out of critical favour in the mid-1970s.

In the Stratford 1976 season, and then at the Aldwych in 1977, she gave two comedy performances, first in Trevor Nunn's musical staging of The Comedy of Errors as Adriana, then partnered with Donald Sinden as Beatrice and Benedick in John Barton's " British Raj " revival of Much Ado About Nothing.

Much of the later secular music of the early Renaissance evolved from the forms, ideas, and the musical aesthetic of the troubadours, courtly poets and itinerant musicians, whose culture was largely exterminated during the Albigensian Crusade in the early 13th century.

Much later, it was reprised in the ballet " Limehouse Blues " featuring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer in the musical film Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ).

Much later, Ming dynasty ( 1300s-1600 ) scholar Chu Tsai Yu recognized 3 groups: those instruments using muscle power or used for musical accompaniment, those that are blown, and those that are rhythmic, a scheme which was probably the 1st of scholarly type, the other earlier ones being traditional, folk taxonomies.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's 1938 score for The Adventures of Robin Hood, for example, can be heard to attach particular themes and harmonies to individual characters: Robin, Will, Much, and Gisbourne are all accompanied by distinctive musical material.

Performed with a full backing band, the song's musical structure was loosely based on Chuck Berry's " Too Much Monkey Business ", while the lyrics were a dizzying array of free association rhymes, hip street-speak, and cautionary advice for the singer's own generation.

Much of the station's closing night was made up of in-house produced output including Live Like A Lord ( a music and comedy show with mainstay TWW personality Ivor Emmanuel and Clive Dunn ) and Sing Me A Fantasy ( a musical film ).

Much controversy has been put down by the " Pre-fab " ( pre-fabricated ) four as the public believed they did not play their own instruments ; but all four had musical backgrounds, with some form of previous acting experience, and within four months of their public debut, they were recording in the studio as a self-contained, fully functioning band.

Much of Velvet Acid Christ's musical composition has been produced with synthesizers and computer software ( see Computer music ).

Much of Hampshire County's cultural activity, frequently flamboyant nightlife, and musical venues are concentrated in these two small but lively cities that are separated by a mere 7 miles.

Among the memorable performances ( including some from before Papp had the Delacorte for his Shakespeare ) were George C. Scott's Obie-award winning Richard III in 1958 ; Colleen Dewhurst's Kate, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra ( opposite George C. Scott's Mark Antony ), and Gertrude ; the Prince Hamlet of Stacy Keach opposite Dewhurst's Gertrude with James Earl Jones ' King Claudius, Barnard Hughes's Polonius and Sam Waterston's Laertes ; Sam Waterston's Hamlet ( opposite the Gertrude of Ruby Dee ) with the Laertes of John Lithgow and Andrea Marcovicci's Ophelia ; the Benedick and Beatrice of Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes in Much Ado About Nothing with Barnard Hughes's Keystone Kops version of Dogberry ; the early work of Meryl Streep as Isabella in Measure for Measure ; Mary Beth Hurt as Randall Duk Kim's daughter in Pericles ; James Earl Jones as King Lear ( 1973 ) with Rosalind Cash and Ellen Holly as his wicked daughters ; Raul Julia as Edmund in Jones ' 1973 King Lear, as Osric to Keach's Hamlet, and as Proteus ( in a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona which transferred to a Broadway run ).

Much has been credited with helping to foster a vibrant Canadian music scene because of the Canadian content broadcast rules which mandated native musical acts had a secure and prominent place on the channel's play schedule.

Much like his musical career, Gass ' acting career also started at a young age.

Much of the works contributed by Pakistani musicians in the U. S. are often inspired by a fusion of contemporary and traditional American and Pakistani musical genres.

Much of the music was written and performed by Beadle Blair, who intended the series to feel like a musical.

Much of the magazine is devoted to interviews with popular musical artists.

In the stage musical Urinetown, the first song is in fact titled " Too Much Exposition " during which the Narrator and Little Sally explain about the drought that caused the water shortage, and in turn, the end of private bathrooms.

Much of her training has been in musical theater as well as dancing, and she spent two-and-a-half years in the national touring company of the Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast playing the role of Babette the Feather Duster for her second year.

Much like the fourth season finale " Restless "— which consisted almost entirely of dream sequences — and the sixth season musical " Once More, with Feeling ", Whedon was certain he would fail at attempting to present the show in such a novel way.

Much of the terrain forms a morass, with ponds, marshes and fields as common features, with small forests interspersed.

Much time may nevertheless be spent on basic physical training, such as stance training ( zhan zhuang ), stretching and strengthening of muscles, as well as on empty hand and weapon forms which can be quite demanding.

Much like the various forms of overpayment fraud detailed above, a new variant of the lottery scam involves fake or stolen checks being sent to the ' winner ' of the lottery ( these checks representing a part payment of the winnings ).

Much larger forms are found in the later rocks of the upper part of the Jurassic and the lower part of the Cretaceous, such as Titanites from the Portland Stone of Jurassic of southern England, which is often 53 centimetres ( 2 feet ) in diameter, and Parapuzosia seppenradensis of the Cretaceous period of Germany, which is one of the largest known ammonites, sometimes reaching 2 metres ( 6. 5 feet ) in diameter.

Much like Angel, he is highly proficient in various forms of martial arts, and his typical fighting style blends karate, kung fu, and others.

Much of the surviving music of the time is secular, and tends to use the formes fixes: the ballade, the virelai, the lai, the rondeau, which correspond to poetic forms of the same names.

Much of the neighborhood is now part of the incorporated city of San Jose, the rest forms the CDP

Much of the province forms part the densely populated North China Plain, an area known as the " breadbasket of China ".

Much of Gordon's work is seen as being about memory and uses repetition in various forms.

Much architecture survives on the outskirts of the Byzantine world, where the national forms of architecture came into being: in the Transcaucasian countries, in Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and other Slavic lands ; and also in Sicily ( Cappella Palatina ) and Veneto ( St Mark's Basilica, Torcello Cathedral ).

Much of what was once expressed in a madrigal in 1590, could twenty years later be expressed by an aria in the new form of opera ; however, the madrigal continued to live on into the 17th century, in several forms, including old-style madrigals for many voices ; a solo form with instrumental accompaniment ; and the concertato madrigal, of which Claudio Monteverdi was the most famous practitioner.

Much of the riverside land between Bedlington and the hall forms the Bedlington Country Park, a designated Local Nature Reserve.

Much of the music technology used in EDM has traditionally been designed to suit loop based compositional methods, which may explain why certain stylistic features of minimal techno and other forms of electronic dance music sound similar to minimal art music.

Gunn, who praised his Stanford mentor Yvor Winters for keeping " both Rule and Energy in view, / Much power in each, most in the balanced two ," found a productive tension — rather than imaginative restriction – in the technical demands of traditional poetic forms.

Much of the historical information given by Gaius is wanting in the compilations of Justinian, and, in particular, the account of the ancient forms of procedure in actions.

Much of the southern drainage divide of the watershed forms the border of Idaho and Montana, and a very short portion of the northeastern divide forms the border of British Columbia and Alberta.

Much of the original marble which formed the roof and Parthenon Frieze | frieze now forms a pile of rubble at its base.

Much has been written about a post-war feeling of distortion, distress, and of the sculptural forms at this time taking this morbid neurosis as a cue for the broken surfaces and violently contorted forms, which seemed to reflect the harrowing and immediate experience of the war.

Much of the remaining land from Belhus forms the Belhus Woods Country Park.

Much of the area along the Shankill Road forms the five wards of Court district electoral area.

Much is made about the difference between the medieval forms Svearike and Sverige.