Dictionary

music hall en · NOUN

Meanings

1. 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.
   • 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. 1983, Terence J. O'Grady, The Beatles, a Musical Evolution, Macmillan Reference USA:
   • 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. 1976, Roy Busby, British Music Hall: An Illustrated Who's who from 1850 to the Present Day, Conran Octopus:
   • [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). 1987, The New Yorker:

Forms

Translations (17)

ru мю́зик-холл (auditorium) · fi konserttisali (auditorium) · bg вариете (vaudeville or variety theatre) · ru музыка́льный зал (auditorium) · fi musiikkitalo (auditorium) · pl wodewil (vaudeville or variety theatre) · ru теа́тр варьете́ (vaudeville or variety theatre) · cmn 音樂廳 /音乐厅 (auditorium) · pl teatr rewiowy (auditorium) · fi varieteeteatteri (vaudeville or variety theatre) · bg концертна зала (auditorium) · la odeum (auditorium) · ru варьете́ (vaudeville or variety theatre) · pl rewia (vaudeville or variety theatre) · mk вариете́ (vaudeville or variety theatre) · ja 寄席 (auditorium) · cmn 雜耍劇 /杂耍剧 (vaudeville or variety theatre)