1938's Violent is the Word for Curly was a quality Chase-directed short that featured the musical interlude, " Swingin ' the Alphabet ".

This musical interlude was often used in Have Gun-Will Travel and many other CBS westerns.

" Briefly, the " break " of a song is a musical fragment only seconds in length, which typically takes the form of an " interlude " in which all or most of the music stops except for the percussion.

It is edited in a humorous way by him with the introductory title " COMIC BELIEF presents ..." and has a brief spiritual guru-like " musical interlude ".

There was usually a musical interlude at some point, featuring a current recording star.

Towards the end of the 16th century innovative Florentine musicians were developing the intermedio — a long-established form of musical interlude inserted between the acts of spoken dramas — into increasingly elaborate forms.

Multiple songs, such as " Acoustic # 3 " and " All Eyes On Me ", have an extended musical interlude.

On the Beastie Boys album Check Your Head there is a musical interlude called the Blue Nun in which a narrator describes a party held in Peter Sichel's comfortable study in his New York townhouse in which the guests compliment the wine.

The show typically opened with a monologue from Gleason, followed by sketch comedy involving Gleason and a number of regular performers ( including Art Carney ) and a musical interlude featuring the June Taylor Dancers.

Most of the episodes featured a relatively ' straight ' musical interlude, sometimes performed by Milligan himself, or his collaborators Ed Welch or Alan Clare at the piano.

The insertion of Alan's dream sequence set at interstellar nightclub The Swinging Star was spearheaded by Sylvia, who expanded these scenes with a proposed musical interlude to be performed by puppet versions of Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Richard's backup band in the 1960s.

A surreal take on small-town life, the series mixed stream-of-consciousness sketches with a nod to the vivacious world of 1950's variety, including a musical interlude from spoof tea-dance band, Enrico Valdez and his Orchestra, with accordionist Micky Binelli and singer Cleo Rocos, of Kenny Everett Show fame.

Morrison begins nearly every line with the word blood, often referring to " Blood in the streets ..." blood everywhere ... A brief musical interlude is next, followed by a guitar solo, and a spoken word verse (" Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding ...").

The compensations included a short working day, which meant the later afternoon could be spent in exercising and socialising, going to the races, playing tennis, amateur dramatics and musical performances, and later at dinner parties which might include ' absurd games ', or a musical interlude.

Enya performs " I Want Tomorrow " during a musical interlude in The Celts.

A break beat is a rhythmic, musical interlude of a song that has been looped over and over again to extend that instrumental solo.

; Chapter 10: An interlude, with the arrival of Sylvie and Bruno, the discussion of wine ( which is transformed into a discussion of jam ) and an unsatisfying musical performance.

" Spotlight " features instrumentation from drums, bass synths and handclaps, accompanied by vocal echos, a piano segment and violin phrases in the musical interlude.

The opening musical introduction of the song served as a brief twenty-six seconds musical interlude on the Drowned World Tour in 2001.

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

These are then mixed by their sound engineers with the active co-operation of the musical staff and combined into the final two channels which are impressed on the record.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

While living in Venice Salieri continued his musical studies with the organist and opera composer Giovanni Battista Pescetti, then following Pescetti's sudden death he studied with the opera singer Ferdinando Pacini or Pasini.

The resulting fight between the townsfolk and Lamarr's army of thugs breaks the fourth wall, quite literally ; the fight spills out from the Warner Bros. film lot into a neighboring musical set being directed by Buddy Bizarre ( Dom DeLuise ), then into the studio commissary, where a pie fight ensues.

This could be converted into musical notation by hand and then performed by human players.

The polyphonic organization of different melodies to sound at the same time was still a relatively new invention then, and it is understandable that the mathematical or physical relationships in frequency that give rise to the musical intervals as we hear them, should be foremost among the preoccupations of Medieval musicians.

He garroted women with the strings of musical instruments and then threw the bodies into a lake.

While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola was elected president of The Green Wig ( the university's drama group ), the Kaleidoscopians, ( its musical comedy club ) and he then merged the two into The Spectrum Players.

In addition, he ordered that musical festivities be celebrated, and then told his fellow citizens to each spend a precise sum of 333 sestertia and 333 denarii.

Toscanini, then the musical director of the Met, conducted.

Its mixture of political satire and grand opera parody mimicked Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and La belle Hélène, which ( in translation ) then dominated the English musical stage.

The performance, a musical benefit at London's Royal Albert Hall in aid of the deaf, was attended by Prince Andrew's then wife, the Duchess of York.

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.

In the late 1970s, Lyon & Healy was purchased by Steinway & Sons ( then owned by CBS ), and consequently closed their retail stores in the Chicago area, that had been selling sheet music and musical instruments, and their education departments — to focus on the harp division.

Brando then took a variety of roles in the 1950s: portraying Napoleon in Désirée, Sky Masterson in the musical Guys and Dolls ; Sakini, a Japanese interpreter for the U. S. Army in postwar Japan in The Teahouse of the August Moon ; as a United States Air Force officer in Sayonara, and a German officer in The Young Lions.

When, in 1887, the French and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce, in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the Petite Messe Solennelle, " the last musical composition by Rossini ", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and " demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro ," of singing it herself in her " dear and beloved homeland ".

From the initial syllables of the first verses of the resultant setting he then took the names of the first notes of the musical scale.

These multiple revolutions spread over Europe in the next several decades, beginning in Germany and then moving to Spain, France and England somewhat later, demarcating the beginning of what we now know as the Baroque musical era.

Although the episodes were scripted, most of the music used over the two series was written in translation by Postgate in the form of " musical sketches " or graphs that he drew for Elliott, who would then convert the drawings into a musical score.

Since then, Elfman has scored every film that Tim Burton has directed except for Ed Wood ( because of a falling out that they had ) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street because the music was based on Stephen Sondheim's musical.

When the popular musical The Threepenny Opera was filmed by director Georg Pabst, he filmed the first version with a French-speaking cast ( 1930 ), then a second version with a German-speaking cast ( 1931 ).

In August 2007, Brian May, lead guitarist with the band Queen, handed in his PhD thesis Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud 36 years after starting it and then abandoning it in favour of a musical career.