Category: Alan Menken

Alan Menken’s Under The Sea is played in an almost baroque style, but the lyrics cause it to be seen as a song of anxiety and longing. Alan Menken said that he wrote this piece “in major mode.” Alan Menken also commented on the lyrics saying that he was interested in writing about “deep sea…

Alan Menken is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist. He composed the scores for various Disney movies, including The Little Mermaid , Aladdin , Hercules , Beauty And The Beast . Alan Menken’s best known work was initially a collaboration with Howard Ashman on a 1989 stage musical adaptation of a 1946…

         Alan Menken, American musical theatre and film composer, was born on 22nd January 1949. He composed the music for several Disney films, including Beauty and the Beast , Aladdin , Pocahontas , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Hercules . A Whole New World is a song from Disney’s animated feature film Aladdin .…