In a message dated 4/1/06 1:01:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: "Robert C L Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Finale] music literacy > ...Thus, one might reasonably say that the parlato songs in The Music Man are a form of rap ... < Nope. They came long before rap. And their origins are G&S patter songs and Noel Coward. >>
The G&S patter songs are just that, songs: the patter is a line of tones, though so fast that it may sound sometimes like rapid speech. They could be played on a (pitched) musical instrument. The little I've heard of Noel Coward songs sounded spoken, but I wonder if they were written down in-pitch, but performed in his breathy conversational delivery... The Music Man had "rap-like" passages (i.e. parts of "You've Got Trouble") which led to fully pitched-tone cadences as the climax... -Steve NYC _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
