
The Broadway Musical by Joseph P Swain
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.
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 | The Broadway Musical |
| Author | Joseph P Swain |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1990-05-24 |
| Number of pages | 405 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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