Patter Songs
Patter Songs
#0Patter Songs
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:04pmWhat is the definition of a patter song?
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#1re: Patter Songs
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:15pm
In Trousers
March of the Falsettos
Falsettoland
Those are all perfect definitions of a patter song.
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#2re: Patter Songs
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:50pm
Typically, they are songs with lots of words that go very quickly. They can often sound more like speaking than singing.
'I am the very model of a Modern Major General"
"I Have a Little List"....these are patter songs....and I think "Trouble" could qualify too.
#3re: Patter Songs
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:54pm"The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie is another great example of a patter song. Heck, wasn't its movie counterpart actually called "Matter Patter"?
#4re: Patter Songs
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:55pm"Fast" from Zanna, Don't!
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#5re: Patter Songs
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:55pm
Tower of Babble * Godspell
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And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
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#6re: Patter Songs
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:55pmanother example is "therapy" from tick tick boom
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#7re: Patter Songs
Posted: 8/13/05 at 11:27pm
"Worst Pies In London" -Sweeney Todd
"Now" -A Little Night Music
"I'm Not Getting Married Today" -Company
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
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#8re: Patter Songs
Posted: 8/14/05 at 12:00amnow(its just the gas) from little shop also
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
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#10re: Patter Songs
Posted: 8/14/05 at 12:25am
coffee in a cardboard cup
bells
both are kander and ebb
hear the beat...
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