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VAUDEVILLE , a See also:term now generally given to a musical See also:drama of a See also:light, humorous or comic description interspersed with songs and dances: In See also:English usage " vaudeville " is practically synonymous with what is more generally known as " musical See also:comedy," but in See also:America it is applied also to a See also:music-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall variety entertainment. This See also:modern sense is' See also:developed from the See also:French vaudeville of the 18th See also:century, a popular See also:form of light dramatic See also:composition, consisting of See also:pantomime, dances, songs and See also:dialogue, written in couplets. It is generally accepted that the word is to be identified with vau-de-See also:wire, the name given to the convivial songs of the 15th century. This name originated with a See also:literary association known as the "Co7npagnons Gallois," i.e. boon companions " or " See also:gay comrades " in the valley of the See also:Vire and Virene in See also:Normandy. The most famous of the authors of these songs was See also:Olivier Basselfn(q.v.) When in the 17th century the term had become applied to topical, satiric verses current in the towns, it was corrupted into its See also:present form, either from a eau le vale, or voix de vale.
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