The Broadway Musical by Joseph P Swain

The Broadway Musical by Joseph P Swain

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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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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
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