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第1页共5页 多学科网书城四 品牌书店·知名教辅·正版资源 b2 xxk.com○ 您身边的互联网+教辅专家 必修④Module6单元主题语篇训练 1.阅读理解 A THE HISTORY OF MUSICAL THEATRE Musical theatre is considered the most inclusive of the performing arts,combining music,song,dialogue and dance. Pre-1900 ENTER MUSICAL COMEDIES AND OPERETTAS Musical theatre can be traced back to ancient Greece.Over the centuries musicals have evolved through Roman,French and 18th century theatre. During the 19th century,musical theatre as we know it was born,with the development of musical comedies and operettas. 1900-1929 ENTER MUSICAL REVUES AND HUGE BROADWAY SHOWS The music hall and musical comedies,such as those written by Gilbert and Sullivan continued to dominate. Huge Broadway shows and musical revues featuring wonderful costumes and sets, designed to entertain but with little plot,became popular. 1930-1939 ENTER JAZZ MUSICALS AND NATURALISTIC DIALOGUE Competition for audiences from low-price movies encouraged writers to experiment with new themes,moving towards more naturalistic dialogue. Progy and Bess (1935)was Broadway's first jazz opera,using an all-black cast to explore poverty. 1940-1949 ENTER THE GOLDEN AGE Theatre in the 1940s became more wide-ranging,integrating complicated plots with song and dance. Oklahoma!dazzled audiences,marking a new direction for American musicals. Composers became dramatists,creating mood,tension and a sense of high drama through their music. 1950-1959 ENTER THE BOOK MUSICALS AND ROMANTIC COMEDIES Broadway musicals remained popular,but several non-Broadway musicals experienced great success. An explosion of romantic comedy book musicals arrived,including My Fair Lady.On Broadway,West Side Story became the first show that used dance to drive the story telling. 语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。全文按照时间顺序介绍了音乐刷的产生、发展、黄金 时期等阶段。 独家授权侵权必究· 第2页共5页 色学科网书城四 品牌书店·知名教辅·正版资源 b.zxxk.com○ 您身边的互联网+教辅专家 1.What caused musicals to move in a new direction during the 1930s? A.The development of new musical instruments B.The audience's demand for mor