Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical? (BroadwayWorld.com)

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Phan#24601

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/29/12 at 01:05pm

What are favorite songs with more than 2 different simultaneous vocal parts?
Mine are:
"One Day More!"-Les Misérables
"Notes/ Prima Donna"-The Phantom of the Opera
"Johanna (Reprise)"- Sweeney Todd
"Finale"-Godspell
"Devil Take the Hindmost (Reprise)"- Love Never Dies

Owen22

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/29/12 at 01:10pm

"Tonight" quintet.

humbugfoto

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/29/12 at 01:44pm

"A Weekend In The Country"

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AwesomeDanny

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/29/12 at 03:43pm

The word you're looking for is "polyphonic"

My favorite is You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through

Jon

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/29/12 at 04:09pm

The Follies number is only two parts.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the last part of "Christmas Bells" from RENT.

shrekster224

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/29/12 at 06:23pm

Montage from Evita, the American Idiot Jesus of Suburbia set, and if considered as one, Now, Soon, and Later from ALNM.

AwesomeDanny

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/29/12 at 06:36pm

Whoops--I misread it and thought it was at least two. In this case, I have to add Blackout and 96,000 from In the Heights, the "trio" ending of Broadway Baby, Ah Paris, and Rain on the Roof from Follies, Poor Baby from Company, and Life is Happiness Indeed and the quartet first act finale of Candide.

Kad

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/29/12 at 06:57pm

"Why Did I Listen to That Man?" from Urinetown.

christhefish

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/29/12 at 07:06pm

Octet from The Light in the Piazza

givesmevoice

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/29/12 at 08:23pm

Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little.

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After Eight

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/30/12 at 08:51pm

"A Balloon Is Ascending" from Ben Franklin in Paris
"The Tea Party" from Dear World

justoldbill

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/30/12 at 10:14pm

The Train Is At The Station - PORGY AND BESS
Strawberry Woman/Honey Man/Crab Man - PORGY AND BESS
Prologue - GODSPELL

Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....

Updated On: 9/30/12 at 10:14 PM

darquegk

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/30/12 at 10:19pm

For sheer gleeful joy, "Hello" from Book of Mormon. Polyphonic numbers tend to be a bit serious,Mao it's fun to have one that is unapologetically fast and bouncy.

shrekster224

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 9/30/12 at 10:33pm

I guess polyphonic refers two a song where two different parts are sung simultaneously? I took it as more of a medley of songs, as did others. In that case, Carrying the Banner.

darquegk

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/1/12 at 12:32am

Yeah. I assumed we were talking about what is commonly called (at least in the internet community) Massively Multiplayer Ensemble Numbers. The line between one of those and a polyphonic song is rather slim.

I mentioned "Hello" mainly because it's rare to have an entire musical number based around polyphony and little else.

JohnyBroadway

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/1/12 at 12:45am

Man Up

tamra2

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/1/12 at 12:35pm

i really like the If Only quartet from The Little Mermaid... it is beautiful

Renart

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/1/12 at 12:48pm

Somoeone in a Tree - Pacific Overtures

Mister Matt

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/1/12 at 01:04pm

Quartet Finale - Candide
Sons - The Rothschilds
Your Work and Nothing More - Jekyll & Hyde
Goldfarb Variations - The Magic Show
Two's Company - The Magic Show
No Good Can Come From Bad - Mystery of Edwin Drood
Harvard Variations - Legally Blonde
You Don't Know/I Am the One - Next to Normal
Tradition - Fiddler on the Roof
Falling - Aspect of Love
Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility) - Chess
A Day in Falsettoland - Falsettos
Heart and Music - A New Brain

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PapaGe

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/1/12 at 01:53pm

Who Will Buy - Oliver
Not Me - Aida

And I agree with:
You Don't Know/I Am the One - Next to Normal
Johanna (Reprise) - Sweeney Todd

Updated On: 10/1/12 at 01:53 PM

qazdannywsx

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/1/12 at 08:58pm

I created a BWW account only because I felt like this had to be said: In The Heights! Definitely the Finale, but also 96000, Blackout...
And then N2N's Just Another Day and most of Spring Awakening...

Skip2

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/2/12 at 01:11am

Sunday

Thparkaly

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joined:9/11/12

Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/2/12 at 02:00am

I wouldn't say it's the best, but "Dear Old Friend" from Love Never Dies comes to mind.

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westcoast_wannabe

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/2/12 at 08:15am

Threads with titles like: what are the best *such and such* kinds of songs?Inevitably produce threads that ultimately list every single song that fits the given criteria.

That said
The Lifeboats / We'll Meet Tomorrow from Titanic is one of my favorites that hasn't been mentioned yet.

GoSmileLaughCryClap

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/2/12 at 08:22am

The Day Off from Sunday in the Park, and the Flashback in Passion. That 6 minute sequence in Passion is like a mini musical. It tells Fosca's entire backstory, which is very similar to The Heiress.

Nettik

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Best multi-part (more than 2) song from a musical?
Posted: 10/2/12 at 05:03pm

"A Step Too Far" - Aida
"Nothing to do with Me" - A Christmas Carol (Menken)
"96,000" - In the Heights
"The Harvard Variations" - Legally Blonde
"Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I'm Falling" - Next to Normal
"'Til We Reach that Day" - Ragtime
"Quartet" - The Secret Garden
"Tonight (Quintet)" - West Side Story