music hall

English

Noun

music hall (plural music halls)

  1. (music) An auditorium for concerts and musical entertainments.
  2. A vaudeville or variety theater.
  3. A style of light entertainment popular in the United Kingdom from the late-19th to early-20th centuries, especially associated with jaunty sing-along songs, comedic sketches and variety acts.
    • 1976, Roy Busby, British Music Hall: An Illustrated Who's who from 1850 to the Present Day, Conran Octopus:
      His first appearance, at the age of four, was in a music-hall comedy routine played by his father and Little Tich at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle.
    • 1983, Terence J. O'Grady, The Beatles, a Musical Evolution, Macmillan Reference USA:
      The instrumentation of two B flat clarinets, bass clarinet, piano, bass guitar and snare drum brushstrokes in and of itself evokes an antiquated music hall style.
    • 1987, The New Yorker:
      [T.S.] Eliot wrote this sixty-some years ago, and not about the performing arts (his tastes in which were adventurous - he was a big fan of music hall and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes).

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