Broadway Musical by Joseph P Swain

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Broadway Musical by Joseph P Swain

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Summary

This survey of successful Broadway musicals examines how the great show composers, from Kern, Gershwin and Rodgers to Lloyd-Webber, have used the traditional tools of musical composition to become powerful dramatists in their own right.

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Broadway Musical by Joseph P Swain

Moving behind the anecdotes and production histories of Broadway, this survey of the most important musicals examines how the great Broadway composers used the traditional tools of composition - melody, harmony, tonal movement, rhythm and texture - to become powerful dramatists in their own right. Over 150 musical examples show how "Showboat", "Oklahoma!", and "Carousel" changed the course of the Broadway tradition, and how such diverse material as Shakesperean drama ("Kiss Me Kate"), and modern conflict ("Fiddler on the Roof") was transformed by Broadway. Covering the work of composers - Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and Frank Loesser - and songwriting teams - Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, and Rice and Lloyd-Webber - this trip down memory lane ends with a look at the future of the Broadway musical play.

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Swain, Joseph P.: - Joseph P. Swain is associate professor of music and head of the music theory curriculum at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He has written on an unusually wide range of subjects and is the author of two earlier books: Sound Judgment: Basic Ideas about Music and The Broadway Musical: A Critical Study, the 1991 winner of a Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music.
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ISBN 13 9780195054347
ISBN 10 0195054342
Title Broadway Musical
Author Joseph P Swain
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Year published 1990-05-24
Number of pages 405
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