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Glossary of Musical
Terms
In your own words, gives definition of the following terms
regularly used in opera/musicals:
Alto
Bass
Book
Box Office
Broadway
Cast
Chorus
Company
Composer
Crew
Director
Diva
EntrActe
Impresario
Ingenue
Musical Director
Lyricist
Libretto
Melismatic
Off-Broadway
Operetta
Orchestration
Overture
Patter Song
Reprise
Soprano
Syllabic
Tenor
Vamp (in music terms)
West End
1940s- Oklahoma
2000s- Wicked
You should include the famous NZ musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show,
brief plot summary, about the composer and a video link of one of the most
famous song in the show.