Old school mashups - what were they called?

[SantaMan]

I was watching a couple of YouTube mash-ups and thought of interwoven songs on variety shows and Broadway musicals.
I found one or two using “mashup” and “Carol Burnett” and thought of “Lida Rose/Will I ever tell you” from Music Man and of course the counterpoint songs that Sondheim uses such as the opening song/medley “A Weekend in the Country”. I also seem to remember medleys where multiple songs were dovetailed.
Are there any terms for any of these “old school mashups”?
Do you have any favorites?

[Taomist]

@SantaMan

I was watching a couple of YouTube mash-ups and thought of interwoven songs on variety shows and Broadway musicals.
I found one or two using “mashup” and “Carol Burnett” and thought of “Lida Rose/Will I ever tell you” from Music Man and of course the counterpoint songs that Sondheim uses such as the opening song/medley “A Weekend in the Country”. I also seem to remember medleys where multiple songs were dovetailed.
Are there any terms for any of these “old school mashups”?
Do you have any favorites?

I can’t think of any examples and I don’t have an answer regarding what the interweaving of songs is called, but surely someone does! I’d like to know, too.

[SantaMan]

Here’s the one from Carol Burnett (actual mashup is in the middle)
http://youtu.be/enPEtFXh3nE

Carol and guest star Ken Berry mashup of “Sing” and “Put On a Happy Face”.

[BMax]

med·ley   [med-lee] Show IPA noun, plural med·leys, adjective
noun
1.
a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble.
2.
a piece of music combining tunes or passages from various sources: a medley of hit songs from Broadway shows.

[Bosstone]

Yup, medley.

[SantaMan]

I normally think of medley as a series of melodies segueing (sp?) from one to the next. Will the term also apply when two melodies are interwoven? Or alternate ?

[hogarth]

In the Wiki article for “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature”, Burton Cummings calls it “transwashing”. Maybe he just made that up, though.

[Ludovic]

When me and my friends did it in High School, we called it a “mix”, even though we were neither remixing the songs nor making a mixtape per se.

[RealityChuck]

Counterpoint song. Irving Berlin was renowned for this: some of include “An Old Fashioned Wedding” from Annie Get Your Gun, “You’re Just in Love” from Call Me Madam, and “Play a Simple Melody.”

[silenus]

My favorite counterpoint is the Tonight quintet from West Side Story.

[SantaMan]

Thanks all, looks like counterpoint song/counterpoint duet does it:
(caution, tvtropes) http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CounterpointDuet

[SantaMan]

this led me to “Amazing counterpoint duet: 21 year old Barbra Streisand sings “Happy Days Are Here Again” while Judy Garland blends in “Get Happy.””
http://youtu.be/oKl7K4v9AoU

[pulykamell]

Oh oh! I get to use a term I learned just last week (through this YouTube video)

Will “quodlibet” or “simultaneous quodlibet” work for you? The latter is pretty close to what we would call a mashup today.

Also, here’s a post on the Beatles’ "I’ve Got a Feeling that mentions some popular music quodlibets:

The single most notable feature here is the alternation and eventual superimposition of two separate songs. It’s more than just a medley; the fancy college board musicology term for it is a “quodlibet”. Aside from the many learned Baroque specimens of this technique, you can find two very well known examples from the Broadway show repertoire of the late fifties: "West Side Story"s dueling versions of “Tonight” (one by the rival gangs, and one by Maria), and “Music Man”'s alternation of “Goodnight My Someone” with “Seventy Six Trombones”.

[SantaMan]

cool. Thanks for the new word. I was also reminded that some of the medleys segue from one song to the next with a common word or theme. I’ll keep an eye out for examples.