The melodies flow along pleasantly, as Mr. Coward's songs usually do, but his lyrics have a tired, cut-to-a-familiar-pattern quality.

These songs usually have a very punctuated rhythm precisely for this reason, along with a call-and-answer format.

) Similarly, when Jewish families and larger groups sing traditional Sabbath songs known as zemirot outside the context of formal religious services, they usually do so a cappella, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations on the Sabbath sometimes feature entertainment by a cappella ensembles.

In the swing era they were usually either arrangements of popular songs or they were entirely new compositions.

Many songs have been written to teach phonemic awareness and they are usually referred to as alphabet songs.

They were generally sentimental, narrative, strophic songs published separately or as part of an opera ( descendants perhaps of broadside ballads, but with printed music, and usually newly composed.

They would usually play 45-rpm records, featuring hit singles on one turntable while talking between songs.

The BBC Radio programme, Desert Island Discs, in which guests usually choose their favourite songs, has heard 45 participants select a Dylan Thomas recording.

The player may then be given a chance to play again, depending on the settings of the particular machine ( the limit is usually 3-5 songs per game ).

* The songs have been performed, by custom, over a long period of time, usually several generations.

The young are usually much less offended by the dilution or adaptation of songs this way.

The " patter " baritone ( or " principal comedian ", as these roles later were called ) would often assume the leading role in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and was usually allotted the speedy patter songs.

Gospel songs generally include a refrain ( or chorus ) and usually ( though not always ) a faster tempo than the hymns.

The songs are usually about Freedom, community strength, patriotism.

Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular " Peel sessions ", which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame.

There are usually two microphones, a book containing the names and artists of the songs, and a remote control for the karaoke machine.

" Even the lyrics, while occasionally demented, were usually too inchoate to be anything but curiously passionate love songs.

Bollywood dances usually follow or are choreographed to filmi songs.

In this radio format, disc-jockeys would select one of a set of the forty best-selling singles ( usually in a rack ) as rated by Billboard magazine or from the station's own chart of the local top selling songs.

Although pop music is often seen as oriented towards the singles charts it is not the sum of all chart music, which has always contained songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs, while pop music as a genre is usually seen as existing and developing separately.

The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pop's " earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience ... since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, ABBA, etc.

The ability to understand and repeat songs is usually unaffected, as these are processed by the opposite hemisphere.

Featuring songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, it was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who, with the help of the songwriters, was able to put his ideas of the integrated musical ( a musical which blends songs and dialogue so the songs advance the plot ).

Eight songs from the original score were discarded as they were not considered to advance the film's plot.

However, 1968's Once Upon A Dream was the first Rascals album designed from conception as an album, rather than as a vehicle to package their singles ( eight of Groovin's eleven songs had been released as single A-or B-sides, most in advance of the album ).

In the traditional manner of musical theater, every significant character in the stage version of Cabaret sings to express emotion and advance the plot ; but in the film version, the musical numbers are entirely diegetic, and only two of the film's major characters ( The Emcee and Sally ) sing any songs.

Although the songs throughout the film allude to and advance the narrative, every song except " Tomorrow Belongs to Me " is executed in the context of a Kit Kat Klub performance.

As David Sherwin and Malcolm McDowell developed the script, Anderson decided Price should write the score and sent him the script, indicating where he would like songs to appear ; nearly all the songs were written in advance of filming.

In the pre-war years, Legge pioneered " subscription " recordings, by which the public were invited to pay in advance for their copies of future recordings, thus making it economically possible for EMI to make such " niche " but classic recordings as the songs of Hugo Wolf ( sung by Elena Gerhardt ) and the complete piano works of Beethoven ( played by Artur Schnabel ).

By late 1994, 17 songs were ready and the band set about using their $ 200, 000 advance to record the album, again with Colin Richardson, at Rockfield studios in Monmouth, South Wales in early 1995.

At the end of March, the first review of an advance copy of the album was written, confirming several more songs.

The real advance was their ability to give strong melodies to thrash songs: ' My World ' and ' Silly Girl ' border on heavy metal but leave out the goofy excess and include way more self-pity.

To advance to the next round of competition, compets must demonstrate their mastery of the three songs, in addition to sight reading a piece.

Executive producer Randy Brazell said songs were selected in advance and stored using complicated computer software.

This 12 " white label promo record is an obscure " Greatest Hits " collection used to showcase Klaatu's " Softer " and " Harder " songs in advance of their one and only tour starting in November 1981.

In return for signing away exclusive rights to some or all the writer ’ s songs, the writer gets paid by the publisher a negotiated advance against future royalties.

It furthered the revolution begun by Show Boat, by thoroughly integrating all the aspects of musical theatre, with the songs and dances arising out of and further developing the plot and characters.

The original music is intact, although some songs have been shuffled into better positions in the revised plot.

Many musicals, such as the old Betty Grable-Don Ameche-Carmen Miranda vehicles, are largely unaffected, but this practice is especially misleading in translations of musicals like Show Boat, The Wizard of Oz, My Fair Lady or Carousel, in which the lyrics to the songs and the spoken text are often or always closely integrated, and the lyrics serve to further the plot.

What was once a collection of songs, dances and comic turns held together by a tenuous plot became an integrated masterpiece.

Initially intended to be accompanied by a 45-rpm record featuring songs referenced in the plot, this addition was shelved ostensibly to be included as an incentive with the ' Absolute Edition ', and ultimately dropped entirely — to the chagrin of the author / singer.

Some story points were built around specific songs, such as in " Legends of the Mall ", where Cyndi Lauper's " Girls Just Want to Have Fun " became a major plot point for a fantasy sequence.

In 2012 a musical version of Roman Holiday, following the plot while using the songs of Cole Porter, was presented in Minneapolis at the Guthrie Theater.

Reflecting the fact that these studio masterpieces were impossible for the group to perform live, their psychedelic mini-films illustrated the songs in an artful, impressionistic manner rather than trying to simulate an idealised performance or depict a narrative or plot.

A recurring plot device in the film has Hudson and his partner Tommy " Five-Tone " ( Aiello ) singing songs concurrently but separately, to time and synchronize their exploits.

Back in Hollywood, Merman was featured in Happy Landing, a minor comedy with Cesar Romero, Don Ameche, and Sonja Henie ; the box office hit Alexander's Ragtime Band, a pastiche of Irving Berlin songs interpolated into a plot that vaguely paralleled the composer's life ; and Straight, Place or Show, a critical and commercial flop starring the Ritz Brothers.

*" Babes in Arms songs, plot, production notes "

Gay uses the operatic norm of three acts ( as opposed to the standard in spoken drama of the time of five acts ), and tightly controls the dialogue and plot so that there are surprises in each of the forty-five fast-paced scenes and 69 short songs.

The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization allowed Hwang to significantly rework the plot, while retaining character names and songs.

For purposes of the award, a " musical " is " defined as a comedy or drama where the songs are used in place of spoken dialogue to further the plot.

A Broadway revival in 2002 starring Lea Salonga had a rewritten plot by playwright David Henry Hwang but retained the inter-generational and immigrant themes as well as most of the original songs.

This plot is based on a song that Stevens recorded in 1986 entitled " Dudley Dorite of the Highway Patrol " where a local policeman stops Stevens for speeding and afterward informs the singer that he's in a whole lot of trouble for using easily identifiable people as characters in his songs.

He also frequently interpolated Irish-style songs into his operettas which, with the exception of those in Eileen, rarely advanced the plot.

The songs were often tied into the plot of the episode, and some pieces of music were even used as running gags.

Though the plot and score is entirely based on that of the West End production, this version also adds in two Broadways songs: " Prologue " and " Someone Else's Story.