Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "A show tune is a popular song originally written as part of the score of a “show” (or stage musical), especially if the piece in question has become a “standard,” more or less detached in most people's minds from the original context. Particular musicals that have yielded “show tunes” include: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, The Sound of Music Jerome Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach and Hammerstein's Rose-Marie Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, As Thousands Cheer, Call Me Madam Cole Porter's Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate, Can-Can George and Ira Gershwin's Girl Crazy, Oh, Kay! Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's Fiddler on the Roof Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot Meredith Willson's The Music Man Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley's Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd Jerry Herman's Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, Dear World, Mack & Mabel, La Cage aux Folles Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music and Into The Woods John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret, and Chicago Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Starlight Express, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatStephen Schwartz's Pippin, Godspell, and WickedJonathan Larson's RentClaude-Michel Schonberg's Les Misérables, Miss SaigonThough show tunes vary in style, they do tend to share common characteristics—they usually fit the context of a story being told in the original musical, they are useful in enhancing and heightening choice moments.Show tunes were a major venue for popular music before the rock and roll and television era; most of the hits of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin came from their shows. Although show tunes no longer have such a major role in popular music as they did in their heyday, they remain somewhat popular, especially among niche audiences."@en }
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- Show_tune abstract "A show tune is a popular song originally written as part of the score of a “show” (or stage musical), especially if the piece in question has become a “standard,” more or less detached in most people's minds from the original context. Particular musicals that have yielded “show tunes” include: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, The Sound of Music Jerome Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach and Hammerstein's Rose-Marie Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, As Thousands Cheer, Call Me Madam Cole Porter's Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate, Can-Can George and Ira Gershwin's Girl Crazy, Oh, Kay! Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's Fiddler on the Roof Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot Meredith Willson's The Music Man Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley's Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd Jerry Herman's Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, Dear World, Mack & Mabel, La Cage aux Folles Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music and Into The Woods John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret, and Chicago Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Starlight Express, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatStephen Schwartz's Pippin, Godspell, and WickedJonathan Larson's RentClaude-Michel Schonberg's Les Misérables, Miss SaigonThough show tunes vary in style, they do tend to share common characteristics—they usually fit the context of a story being told in the original musical, they are useful in enhancing and heightening choice moments.Show tunes were a major venue for popular music before the rock and roll and television era; most of the hits of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin came from their shows. Although show tunes no longer have such a major role in popular music as they did in their heyday, they remain somewhat popular, especially among niche audiences.".
- Q661651 abstract "A show tune is a popular song originally written as part of the score of a “show” (or stage musical), especially if the piece in question has become a “standard,” more or less detached in most people's minds from the original context. Particular musicals that have yielded “show tunes” include: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, The Sound of Music Jerome Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach and Hammerstein's Rose-Marie Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, As Thousands Cheer, Call Me Madam Cole Porter's Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate, Can-Can George and Ira Gershwin's Girl Crazy, Oh, Kay! Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's Fiddler on the Roof Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot Meredith Willson's The Music Man Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley's Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd Jerry Herman's Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, Dear World, Mack & Mabel, La Cage aux Folles Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music and Into The Woods John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret, and Chicago Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Starlight Express, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatStephen Schwartz's Pippin, Godspell, and WickedJonathan Larson's RentClaude-Michel Schonberg's Les Misérables, Miss SaigonThough show tunes vary in style, they do tend to share common characteristics—they usually fit the context of a story being told in the original musical, they are useful in enhancing and heightening choice moments.Show tunes were a major venue for popular music before the rock and roll and television era; most of the hits of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin came from their shows. Although show tunes no longer have such a major role in popular music as they did in their heyday, they remain somewhat popular, especially among niche audiences.".