The Six Different Types of Music Theatre Songs

This blog is my breakdown of the six most common types of songs you can expect in your favourite musical. From the beginning of music theatre writing, composers and lyricists discovered that some song types proved quite useful for particular places in a production to shape and round the story and plot. As the years have gone by, contemporary music theatre writers have left the “standard” format and explored other, flexible song forms. However, these types of songs have proved continually useful because they are so entrenched in the audiences perception and as such have become important parts of most musicals.