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Common version of the motif from Mysterioso Pizzicato Play ⓘ. Mysterioso Pizzicato, also known as The Villain or The Villain's Theme, is a piece of music whose earliest known publication was in 1914, when it appeared in an early collection of incidental photoplay music aimed at accompanists for silent films.
Spring-heeled Jack is an entity in English folklore of the Victorian era.The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in 1837. [1] Later sightings were reported all over the United Kingdom and were especially prevalent in suburban London, the Midlands and Scotland.
War depictions in film and television include documentaries, TV mini-series, and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars, the films included here are films set in the period from 1775 or at the beginning of the Age of Revolution and until various Empires hit roadblock in 1914, after lengthy arms race for several years.
The Yellow Peril was a common subject for 19th-century adventure fiction, of which Dr. Fu Manchu is the representative villain, created in the likeness of the villain in the novel The Yellow Danger; Or, what Might Happen in the Division of the Chinese Empire Should Estrange all European Countries (1898), by M. P. Shiel.
Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes. Most of them were comic in nature. There are a very large number of music hall songs, and most of them have been forgotten. In London, between 1900 and 1910, a single publishing company, Francis, Day and Hunter, published between forty and fifty songs a month.
The project uses the murder ballad genre to explore American history, especially 19th-century America. In American Murder Song, Saar and Terrance play the role of roguish balladeers Mister Storm and Mister Tender who make a pact with the Bible's Cain to chronicle the tales of killers, known as Survivors, who bear The Mark, an American Mark of Cain.
Burlesque theatre became popular around the beginning of the Victorian era.The word "burlesque" is derived from the Italian burla, which means "ridicule or mockery". [2] [3] According to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Victorian burlesque was "related to and in part derived from pantomime and may be considered an extension of the introductory section of pantomime with the addition ...
Biguine (/ b ɪ ˈ ɡ ɪ n / big-IN, French:; Antillean Creole: bigin) is a rhythmic dance and music style that originated from Saint-Pierre, Martinique in the 19th century. It fuses West African traditional music genres, such as Bélé, with 19th-century French ballroom dance steps. [1]