A musical argument is a means of creating tension through the relation of expressive content and musical form: Traditional dialectal music is representational:...

Closing argument, in law, the concluding statement of each party's counsel reiterating the important arguments in a court case Musical argument, a concept...

sometimes of equal musical weight to the foregoing exposition, development, and recapitulation sections and completing the musical argument. For one famous...

Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Based on the 2004...

statements of the subject, each at a distance of six beats: As the musical argument proceeds, the gap between the entries closes to two beats: In the final...

sections. Each section is felt to perform specific functions in the musical argument. It may begin with an introduction, which is, in general, slower than...

Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice. The story...

Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini...

technique: There is something fragmentary about Liszt's work; its musical argument, perhaps by its nature, is often not brought to a conclusion. But is...

American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age, the musical is based on...

The Outsiders is a 2023 coming of age musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance from the folk rock band Jamestown Revival alongside...

Central Perk on Friends. The musical argument between kids, adults and seniors is a parody of the song "Kids" from the musical Bye Bye Birdie. When Lisa...

The Great Gatsby is a 2023 stage musical with music and lyrics by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen, and a book by Kait Kerrigan. It is based on the 1925...

High School Musical is a 2006 American musical television film produced by and aired on Disney Channel as part of the network's slate of original television...

multiple other women. At lunch, Beth and Lisa are amused at the couples' argument over who gets to pay the bill. During a game of soccer, Jack bruises his...

argumentation theory. He has published several papers on the possibility of arguments in non-linguistic modes, such as visual and musical arguments....

bass aboard for public performances. Miller also famously got into a musical argument with Army purists by performing marching arrangements of jazz, including...

"development section" of a work. It can take place at any point in the musical argument. For instance, the “immensely energetic sonata movement” that forms...

prolonged musical argument, and philosophical depth". Britten's fellow composers had divided views about him. To Tippett he was "simply the most musical person...

Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical is a dramatization of the 1913 trial and imprisonment...

Evita is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. It concentrates on the life of Argentine political leader Eva Perón, the...

Kimberly Akimbo is a 2021 musical with music by Jeanine Tesori, and lyrics and book by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on Lindsay-Abaire's 2001 comedy...

Roald Dahl's Matilda, also known simply as Matilda and Matilda the Musical, is a musical with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and a book by Dennis Kelly...

Cabaret is an American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by Joe Masteroff. It is based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera...

Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc...

in his use of folk melody which becomes thoroughly infused into the musical argument. Much of the borrowed folk material is oriental in origin. When it...

The Book of Mormon is a musical comedy with music, lyrics, and book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone. The story follows two missionaries of...

The role of the sonata as an extremely important form of extended musical argument would inspire composers such as Hindemith, Prokofiev, Shostakovich...

(promoted as Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus' Mamma Mia!) is a jukebox musical written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, based on songs recorded...

organic growth through the interplay of musical themes was alien to Russian practice. The traditional argument that Tchaikovsky seemed unable to develop...