A FORMAL AND STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST PIECES FROM THE MUSICAL ‘MY FAIR LADY’
RRSS 2024 No. 26 - Romanian Review of Social Sciences
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Authors:
• Diana Ligia TUDOR -
Keywords: musical, multicultural, libretto, linguistics, phonetics, education, music education
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Abstract:
The musical is a characteristic American genre of performance, still quite little known and represented in the Romanian cultural space and it is considered the most original contribution of the Americans to the development of theatre. It is a form of performance that combines music and spoken dialogue, acting and dancing, in which the dramatic thread and the entire emotional content of the play is rendered in equal proportions through words, music, movement, scenery, in a unified whole. The musical My Fair Lady is one of the most accomplished and complex creations of the genre and our paper aims at investigating two representative pieces of this musical from a stylistic and formal perspective, by analysing the performances of four outstanding vocal artists, emblematic of the paramount importance of music education in the cultural background.