" 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 of the musical forms innovated by these pioneers merged with the Hindu tradition, composed in the popular language of the people ( as opposed to Sanskrit ) in the work of composers like Kabir or Nanak.

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 his repertoire was recorded for the Library of Congress, also.

Much of the most widely admired piano repertoire in classical music, for example, that of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, was composed for a type of instrument ( the fortepiano ) that is rather different from modern instruments this music is normally performed on today.

Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire.

Much of the traditional klezmer repertoire was written by professional klezmer musicians in the style of their region or tradition, and a lot of co-territorial music such as non-Jewish folksongs, especially Romanian music ( mainly from Moldavia ), as well as Ukrainian music and Ottoman music, and the musics of other minorities living in the same areas as Jews in Southeastern Europe such as Crimean Tatars.

Much of the historical shanty repertoire, being by definition designed to suit work, is less attractive as entertainment listening.

) Much of the oratorio repertoire, from Handel's Messiah to Mendelssohn's Elijah, is best suited to a bass-baritone with the ability to combine a rich, dark tone with a smooth, high-lying cantabile line.

• Much of the material performed in the heralded first four shows ( 1976 – 1981 ) came from the rich repertoire of sketches and skits created in the preceding 15 years by Beyond The Fringe and the subsequent work of its alumni, and by Monty Python and its many stage, radio and TV antecedents.

Much of the unique repertoire of the kobzars idealized the legacy of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

The King's Men gave 20 performances, including seven plays by Shakespeare ( Much Ado About Nothing twice ), one by Jonson — and four by Beaumont and Fletcher, reflecting their growing popularity with audiences and dominance in the King's Men's repertoire.

" Much of this repertoire was by Reutter himself ( see Works, below ); other composers prominently represented were Bonno, Tuma, and Fux.

Much of what was presented on the Yiddish stage were translations from European repertoire, and as a result much of the earliest original writing in Yiddish owes as much to German theatre as to the classic Yiddish writers.

Much like another U. S. great, Kristi Yamaguchi, she had a higher success rate on toe-assisted jumps, which appeared to be easier for Kwiatkowski ; she frequently struggled on the edge-entrance triple loop, and only added the triple salchow back into her performance repertoire near the end of her amateur skating career.

Much of the AIX v2 kernel was written in the PL / I programming language, which proved troublesome during the migration to AIX v3.

Much of what has been written about boards of directors relates to boards of directors of business entities actively traded on public markets.

Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction.

Much has been written concerning the meaning of " head " in the New Testament.

Much is written about these topics in rabbinic literature.

Much of the written material found in these digs was later translated by Giovanni Pettinato.

Much of the written Greek that was used as the official language of the Byzantine Empire was an eclectic middle-ground variety based on the tradition of written Koine.

Much is made of how quickly Rossini's opera was written, scholarship generally agreeing upon two or three weeks.

Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is featured in the book The Groucho Letters ( 1967 ) with an introduction and commentary on the letters written by Groucho, who donated his letters to the Library of Congress.

Much of what we know about the Battle of Châlons comes from The History and Deeds of the Goths, written by Jordanes

Much of the poem could have been influenced by Coleridge's opium dream or, as his friend and fellow poet Robert Southey joked, " Coleridge had dreamed he had written a poem in a dream ".

Much of the idea of Cortés being seen as a deity can be traced back to the Florentine Codex written down some 50 years after the conquest.

Much of the music by the band The Acacia Strain is written from a nihilistic point of view.

Much of the religious history of the Puritans is written with a degree of anachronism or denominational bias, also.

) As L. C. Croft has written, " Much of Gosse's success was due to the fact that he was essentially a field naturalist who was able to impart to his readers something of the thrill of studying living animals at first hand rather than the dead disjointed ones of the museum shelf.

Much has been written about demand management.

Much modern scholarship was written without the term.

Much of the non-cartoon material such as the newspaper spoofs are written by the editorial team-Graham Dury, Simon Thorp and Davey Jones-with contributions from Robin Halstead, Jason Hazeley, Joel Morris and Alex Morris, the authors of The Framley Examiner, and by James MacDougall and Christina Martin.

Much has been written about Gretzky ’ s highly developed hockey instincts, but he once explained that what appeared to be instinct was, in large part, the effect of his relentless study of the game.

Much of the material written about her was aimed at children, and tended to focus on her childhood and early career.

Much of the recitative of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, for instance, is merely DuBose and Dorothy Heyward's play Porgy set to music as written-in prose-with the lyrics of the arias, duets, trios and choruses written in verse.

Much has been written about the unpleasant side of Hooke's personality, starting with comments by his first biographer, Richard Waller, that Hooke was " in person, but despicable " and " melancholy, mistrustful, and jealous.