Hybrid songs

[jigblob]

Posted: 2/23/10 at 4:27am

Does anyone know any showtunes that are what I'm calling, (for lack of a better word), hybrid songs? By this, I mean that several characters each kind of are singing their own unrelated song as they all come together it makes for a really cool effect.

It's kind of awkward to explain, but examples that come to mind that I really like include:

Christmas Bells --Rent

Blackout--In the Heights (also the end of 96000 and part of finale have this same thing going on).

and if anyone knows the actual term for what I'm calling a 'hybrid song,' please let me know so i don't continue to sound like an idiot, haha.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 2/23/10 at 4:49am

Now, Later Soon
Don't Do Sadness / Blue Wind

I don't think that there is an 'actual' term, besides the fact that such songs are usually contrapuntal.