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Number (music)
In music, number refers to an individual song, dance, or instrumental piece which is part of a larger work of musical theatre, opera, or oratorio. It can also refer either to an individual song in a published collection or an individual song or dance in a performance of several unrelated musical pieces as in concerts and revues. Both meanings of the term have been used in American English since the second half of the 19th century.〔''Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'', Third Edition (1970). "Number". Oxford University Press.〕〔A now archaic use of the term in the plural was as a synonym for musical sounds or notes. See ''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1970). "Number". Merriam-Webster〕
==Musical theatre and related genres==
In musical theatre, the lyrics of the individual song numbers are integrated with the narrative of the libretto (or "book"). As early as 1917, Jerome Kern wrote that "musical numbers should carry on the action of the play, and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them."〔Quoted in McMillin, Scott (2006). (''The Musical as Drama: A Study of the Principles and Conventions Behind Musical Shows from Kern To Sondheim'' ), p. 2. Princeton University Press〕 The lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, another proponent of this view, even refused to list the numbers in ''Rose-Marie'' because he thought it would detract from what he viewed as the close integration between the book and the lyrics. However, both David Horn and Scott McMillin have proposed that full integration is not completely possible. For McMillin, the start of a musical number creates a noticeably different "feel" in which the singer becomes a "performer" not simply a character.〔McMillin (2006) pp. 2-3〕 For Horn, the individual numbers can serve not only to advance the narrative but also to directly address and engage the audience in an experience which stands apart from the dramatic context of the work., and this latter function had its roots in vaudeville entertainments.〔Horn, David (2003). "Book (1)" in (''Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Part 1 Performance and Production'' ). Continuum International Publishing Group.〕 In revues, a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches, there is no overall narrative, but rather a sequence of unrelated (often lavish) musical numbers. However, as Rick Altman points out, some of the numbers in these types of shows such "This Heart of Mine" in the film ''Ziegfeld Follies'' can be narratives in miniature. That number, according to Altman, "is not just musical—its dream-like dance grows out of the Bremer/Astaire (HREF="http://www.kotoba.ne.jp/word/11/Lucille Bremer" TITLE="Lucille Bremer">Lucille Bremer and Fred Astaire ) mimed narrative which opens the selection."〔Altman, Rick (1987). (''The American Film Musical'' ), p. 102. Indiana University Press.〕
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