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Eventhis type of theater is founded back in Ancient Greece! Back in their plays, mostly comedies, there was a lot of singing and music which was in the background. In this way, both actors and musicians were creating something unique and special. Nowadays, you can find a lot of musical theaters in the entire world. For instance, the Broadway Theater in NYC has a lot of musical theatres. The themes in the musical are mostly about everyday situations or some fictionalized stories. The background music in musical theatre plays is having a big role. Actors, singers, and dancers are using songs to tell a story. Another thing in musical theaters is the role of other people who are not on stage. We are talking about producers, choreographers, composers, etc. Speaking about the composers, they have one of the most responsible tasks. Like when a movie composite needs to know 5 tricky things, it is the same thing for theater composers. They have to be careful and focused the whole time.

We have mentioned that using the background music for theatre plays will help to better create an atmosphere on the stage, so the audience can absolutely feel it. Music can often help actors to better connect with the story and to express their feelings on the stage properly. When every person is about to start a career in acting, one of the first things that they learn is creating an atmosphere of the story they are telling. Their emotions can be more strong and unique if they have music. Also, music can help them to better understand the story, the relationship with other characters, and many other things. Simply, music in every theater play matters and it is hard to imagine a play without it.


If you are wondering where to find music for your play, there are many solutions to choose from. For example, hiring a composer or asking your team to create something special and unique. However, if you are looking to have a budget-friendly production, getting royalty free music is always a good option. It means that you can find affordable songs for which you will pay only once and use them always in your play. Mostly, royalty free music is using for multimedia projects, web pages, advertising, etc. Still, you can be sure that by doing good research, you can find royalty free music for theatre plays and use some of them for your production!


As you can see, the purpose and meaning of the background music for theatre play is essential. It is a part of the actors, play, and the whole atmosphere that the audience is experiencing. By using music, the actors can better express themselves, the audience will better connect to the story and the general feeling will be an amazing one. If you are planning to produce a show, have a lot of luck, and remember to choose suitable music for your story!


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Background: Despite the ubiquitous sounds of music playing in operating theatres (OTs) around the world, the effect that music has on intraoperative clinician stress is ill-defined. In the present scoping review the aim was to map the available evidence for the effect of background music in the OT on the experience of stress in the operating surgeon.


Methods: The present review was conducted in accordance with the PRISMA Protocols for Scoping Reviews. Using Embase, MEDLINE, and the Cochrane databases, peer-reviewed research studies reporting the effect of intraoperative background music on an outcome measure of clinician stress or respondent perceptions on this effect were included.


Results: A total of 4342 studies were screened and 15 studies met the inclusion criteria, of which 10 were interventional studies, and five were observational survey-based studies. Of the 10 interventional studies, four showed reduced anxiety and mental workload scores with music, although only two demonstrated a significant improvement in a physiological outcome. The survey-based studies generally reported a positive perception among surgeons and theatre staff towards the effect of music on OT stress.


Conclusion: While there is generally a positive perception towards intraoperative music and surgeon stress, there are few objective physiological and psychological data to support this. Studies were varied in their design. The present review can be used to guide future experimental, observational, and mixed-method research on this topic.


Background: Music finds application in almost all spheres of society due to some beneficial effects. It has been used among patients in the intensive care setting, among hypertensives with associated lowering the systolic blood pressure, among endoscopy patients with significantly improved pain score and significantly reduced anxiety, for pain relief and relaxation, and also for expectant mothers in labour.


Materials and Methods: The cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out among patients from March to June 2020 in two multispecialty tertiary healthcare facilities in Port Harcourt Nigeria. Using semi-structured questionnaires and convenience sampling method, 425 respondents were recruited. Data collected was analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0.


Results: Four hundred and two (94.6%) respondents loved listening to music at home. Two hundred and seventy-three (64.2%) respondents preferred to listen to music in operating theatre. Preference for timing of music usage in theatre was variable: before, during and after surgery. One hundred and forty-four (33.9%) respondents asserted that they would love to listen to music in theatre during surgery. Two hundred and thirty-three (55.5%) respondents asserted that there was no background music during their last surgery.


European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences (EJMED) is a peer-reviewed international journal publishes bimonthly full-length state-of-the-art research papers, reviews, case studies related to all areas of Medical and Health Sciences.


Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the film score or soundtrack.


Incidental music is often background music, and is intended to add atmosphere to the action. It may take the form of something as simple as a low, ominous tone suggesting an impending startling event or to enhance the depiction of a story-advancing sequence. It may also include pieces such as overtures, music played during scene changes, or at the end of an act, immediately preceding an interlude, as was customary with several nineteenth-century plays. It may also be required in plays that have musicians performing on-stage.


The use of incidental music dates back at least as far as Greek drama. A number of classical composers have written incidental music for various plays, with the more famous examples including Henry Purcell's Abdelazer music, George Frideric Handel's The Alchemist music, Joseph Haydn's Il distratto music,[citation needed] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Thamos, King of Egypt music, Ludwig van Beethoven's Egmont music,[1] Carl Maria von Weber's Preciosa music,[citation needed] Franz Schubert's Rosamunde music,[2] Felix Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream music, Robert Schumann's Manfred music,[1] Georges Bizet's L'Arlsienne music,[3] and Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt music.[4] Parts of all of these are often performed in concerts outside the context of the play. Vocal incidental music, which is included in the classical scores mentioned above, should never be confused with the score of a Broadway or film musical, in which the songs often reveal character and further the storyline. Since the score of a Broadway or film musical is what actually makes the work a musical, it is far more essential to the work than mere incidental music, which nearly always amounts to little more than a background score; indeed, many plays have no incidental music whatsoever.


The genre of incidental music does not extend to pieces designed for concert performance, such as overtures named after a play, for example, Beethoven's Coriolan Overture (written for Heinrich Joseph von Collin's tragedy), or Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet fantasy-overture.


Incidental music is also found in religious ceremony, often when officiants are walking from place to place. (This is distinguished from hymns, where the music is the focus of worship.) Incidental music is also used extensively in comedy shows for a similar purpose: providing mild entertainment during a dull transition. Famous comedy incidental musicians include Paul Schaffer, Max Weinberg, Patrick Burgomaster, and Jon Batiste.


An overture is incidental music that is played usually at the beginning of a film, play, opera, etc., before the action begins. It may be a complete work of music in itself or just a simple tune. In some cases it incorporates musical themes that are later repeated in other incidental music used during the performance.


A theme song is a work that represents the performance and is often played at the beginning or end of the performance. Elements of the theme may be incorporated into other incidental music used during the performance. In films, theme songs are often played during credit rolls. A love theme is a special theme song (often in various modified forms) that accompanies romantic scenes involving the protagonists of a performance.


Theme songs are among the works of incidental music that are most commonly released independently of the performance for which they were written, and occasionally become major successes in their own right.

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