The musical style of the show's score was primarily Doo-Wop as the plot revolved around Doo-Wop group singers of the 1960s.

Set primarily in the New York City subway system its score features an eclectic mix of musical genres ( including jazz, hip hop, Latin, rock, and country ).

The score for A Little Night Music has elements not often found in musical theater, presenting challenges for performers, with complex meters, pitch changes, polyphony, and high notes for both males and females.

In 1973, Lerner coaxed Fritz Loewe out of retirement to augment the Gigi score for a musical stage adaptation.

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

Andersson / Ulvaeus also won a Touring Broadway Award for the musical " Mamma Mia " ( best score ).

Haley continued to score hits throughout the 1950s such as " See You Later, Alligator " and he starred in the first rock and roll musical movies Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock, both in 1956.

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 ".

According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, " although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent.

The lines " Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot ," from the musical Camelot, were quoted by his widow Jacqueline as being from his favorite song in the score.

Hopkins later directed a film version of the stage play, to which he also wrote the musical score.

Often dialogue was changed, and the show became less " Serious " in tone compared to the Japanese version, instead featuring more jokes and added dialogue, along with a completely different musical score ( usually orchestral music ) and completely different sound effects, due to licensing issues.

Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song " Stay Gold ", which was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder.

: The Composer is responsible for writing the musical score for a film.

The musical score to Thespis was never published and is now lost, except for one song that was published separately, a chorus that was re-used in The Pirates of Penzance, and the Act II ballet music.

A new musical score for the film was composed in 2010 by Michael Penny.

The film did have a musical score and synchronized sound effects, but no dialogue.

Connick wrote the score for Susan Stroman's Broadway musical Thou Shalt Not, based on Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin, in 2000 ; it premiered in 2001.

Robert Capa did camerawork, Sidney Lumet worked on the film as a reader, Hanns Eisler wrote the musical score, and Fredric March provided the narration.

He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin.

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

Imitation often involves the copying of an observed behaviour of another individual, but memes may transmit from one individual to another through a copy recorded in an inanimate source, such as a book or a musical score.

The score for King Kong ( 1933 ) made Steiner's reputation ; it was one of the first American films to have an extensive musical score ( it was re-used in a number of RKO films, including Back to Bataan.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

All musical Paris was there.

So Prokofieff was able to cultivate his musical talents and harvest a rich reward from them.

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.

To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.

Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements in Europe before returning home to open the symphony's Golden Anniversary season, it was announced.

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed.

His singing was strong and musical ; ;

There was, therefore, more musical substance in the concert than might have been the case otherwise.

But, with all due respects and allowances, it must truthfully be said that what they heard was more syrupy than sweet, more mannered than musical.

Chaâbi music is a typically Algerian musical genre that was derived from the Andalusian music during the 1920s.

Andalusian so-called Algerian classical music is a musical style that was reported in Algeria by Andalusian refugees who fled the inquisition of the Christian Kings from the 11th century, it will develop considerably in the cities of the North of the Algeria.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

He was responsible for the destruction of the musical clock organ that Elizabeth I of England sent to the court during the reign of his father.

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter ( 1773 – 1850 ), the musical archaeologist and collector.

Through his work in Vienna, he was given leave of absence for half the year in order to let him travel the world to collect musical information to include in his History of Music book.