The development of musical.

The origin of musicals can be traced back to operetta, edy and minstrel performances in the19th century.

Early development history

In Europe from17th century to18th century, music became a powerful tool for people to express their thoughts and feelings.

In Europe, all kinds of music flourished, and oratorios and operas appeared.

However, gorgeous or solemn operas or oratorios can't completely satisfy the audience, so there is an art form called "living between juggling and opera".

The first musical in history was john kay's The Beggar's Opera, which premiered in London on 1728. It was called "folk opera" at that time, and the songs that were widely circulated at that time were used as the main line of the story.

American entertainment

/kloc-In the 9th century, the United States established cities and musicals flourished. Their target was the city audience, and vaudeville and its more vulgar sister drama burlesque appeared.

happy girl

From 65438 to 0893, an Englishman, Jones, who had been active for a while, finished a musical "Happy Girls" that later went down in history, which aroused enthusiastic response from the audience when it premiered at the Prince Theatre in London.

The story is vivid and coherent, and the dancers are the characters in the play. The story of how these actors tried their best to enter the aristocratic society was clearly described by using the related dance movements and the clown with dramatic style.

Early 20th century

In the 20th century, European composers brought a kind of operetta to America.

Thanks to years of European operas such as Gilbert and Sullivan's English comedies and other geniuses such as johann strauss's Viennese operas,

Influenced by offenbach's French operetta, the audience automatically has a set of standards to judge the quality of music, which also affects the audience's appreciation taste.

Meaningful plots, beautiful music and elegant lyrics have become the goals pursued by creators.

Modern Times

From the middle of1960s to1970s, the concept of avant-garde theater penetrated into mainstream works; Rock music and social changes have enriched the creative materials, and European works have been imported into the United States, and a hundred flowers have blossomed.

In 1960s, the Beatles and rock music rushed to the world from England, and music composers all over the world gradually turned to absorb this irresistible force. Weber in Britain took the lead in adopting light music and rock music in Jesus Christ Jesus Superstar, which is a musical with painful content and serious theme based on an old Bible story.

Modernization makes songs lively, popular and easy to sing.

In the orchestration, it also broke the strict restrictions of orchestral music, and introduced electroacoustic instruments into musicals, thus strengthening its sense of the times and expressiveness.

Extended data

Genre representative

Andrew Lloyd Webber 1

Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1948 was born in London, England on March 22nd, and is a music composer.

1968, Weber's musical Yue Se and the Magic Dress first appeared on the stage.

By the end of 20 13, he had composed 13 musicals, a vocal suite, a set of variations, two film scores and a requiem, and won 7 Tony awards.

Lawrence Oliver won 7 Grammy Awards and 3 Grammy Awards, and won the Oscar and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in Ai Weita for his song "You must love me".

2. george gershwin

George gershwin (1898- 1937), whose original name was Jacob Gershowitz, was born in a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn, new york. He is a famous American composer, who has created a large number of popular songs, dozens of cabaret performances and musicals, and is a famous composer on Broadway and Hollywood.

1924, he wrote rhapsody in blue for the jazz concert in paul whiteman, which was a great success.

Gershwin's outstanding contribution is to combine the styles of Debussy and Rachmaninov with the American jazz style. Although he lacks skilled writing skills, he is a great melody genius.

Gershwin died of brain cancer in the summer of 1937 at the age of 39.