Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration)

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musical theatre orchestration orchestration

Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration) is Robert Russell Bennett’s celebrated orchestral scoring of Irving Berlin’s classic 1946 Broadway musical, renowned for its vibrant, idiomatic treatment of the show’s songs.

Aliases (1)

Annie Get Your Gun (original cast recording) ×1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	musical theatre orchestration → orchestration →
associatedPerson	Ethel Merman →
associatedWithPerson	Irving Berlin → Oscar Hammerstein II → Richard Rodgers →
associatedWithProduction	original 1946 Broadway production of Annie Get Your Gun →
basedOn	Annie Get Your Gun (1946 Broadway musical) →
commissionedFor	Rodgers and Hammerstein (producers of the original Broadway production) →
composerOfSourceMaterial	Irving Berlin →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
criticalReputation	celebrated example of classic Broadway orchestration →
firstPerformanceYear	1946 →
genre	Broadway musical orchestration → show music orchestration →
hasCreator	Robert Russell Bennett →
hasSubject	American Old West (as depicted in the musical) →
includesMusicBy	Irving Berlin →
includesSong	Anything You Can Do → Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly → I Got the Sun in the Mornin’ → There’s No Business Like Show Business → They Say It’s Wonderful →
influencedBy	American popular song tradition → big band jazz idioms →
language	English →
medium	orchestra →
notableFor	idiomatic treatment of songs → vibrant orchestral scoring →
orchestrator	Robert Russell Bennett →
partOf	Annie Get Your Gun (musical) →
period	20th-century American musical theatre →
publicationContext	Broadway theatre →
relatedWork	Annie Get Your Gun (original cast recording) →
style	colorful wind and brass writing → lush symphonic Broadway style → rhythmically driven dance scoring →
usedIn	revivals and touring productions of Annie Get Your Gun → stage performances of Annie Get Your Gun →
usesInstrumentation	brass → harp → percussion → piano → strings → woodwinds →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Robert Russell Bennett →	notableWork
Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration) ("Annie Get Your Gun (original cast recording)") →	relatedWork