Much is done in Hamilton with the concept of "musical support"...
"Yorktown" is probably the best example. Hamilton sings "'Til the world turns upside down" and the ensemble echos it... "Take the bullets out your gun" is met - twice - with WHAT?! so Hamilton monologues at them as to why... and by the time he gives them their code word, they roar it back at him. At the top of the song, Lafayette declaims, "Freedom for America, freedom for France!" and gets no support; Hamilton's corresponding line about meeting his son *also* gets no support; Phillip will precede his father in dying in a duel. Then the cry of "We won!", started by Laurens, builds until Washington himself joins in, turning an expression of disbelief into a celebratory shout, followed by the full company's final line double forte...
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"Yorktown" is probably the best example. Hamilton sings "'Til the world turns upside down" and the ensemble echos it... "Take the bullets out your gun" is met - twice - with WHAT?! so Hamilton monologues at them as to why... and by the time he gives them their code word, they roar it back at him. At the top of the song, Lafayette declaims, "Freedom for America, freedom for France!" and gets no support; Hamilton's corresponding line about meeting his son *also* gets no support; Phillip will precede his father in dying in a duel. Then the cry of "We won!", started by Laurens, builds until Washington himself joins in, turning an expression of disbelief into a celebratory shout, followed by the full company's final line double forte...