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Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Amadeus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Show Tunes, 1905-1991 written by Steven Suskin and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes over 30 major composers and their work
Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195125993
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Show Tunes written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive musical theatre reference book chronicles the work of Broadway's great composers, from 1904 to 1999. Nine hundred shows and almost 9000 show tunes are included, comprising the entire theatrical output of 36 important Broadway composers along with notable musicals by others.
Author : Philip Furia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415972469
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book America's Songs written by Philip Furia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Lol Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135929467
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century written by Lol Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century is an alphabetically arranged encyclopedia of all aspects of music in various parts of the world during the 20th century. It covers the major musical styles--concert music, jazz, pop, rock, etc., and such key genres as opera, orchestral music, be-bop, blues, country, etc. Articles on individuals provide biographical information on their life and works, and explore the contribution each has made in the field. Illustrated and fully cross-referenced, the Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century also provides Suggested Listening and Further Reading information. A good first point of reference for students, librarians, and music scholars--as well as for the general reader.
Author : Rick Koster
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312254254
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Texas Music written by Rick Koster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-05-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the history of Texas music from the 1920s to the present.
Author : Helen Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135153923X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book There's a Place For Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein written by Helen Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Bernstein was the quintessential American musician. Through his careers as conductor, pianist, teacher and television personality he became known across the US and the world, his flamboyance and theatricality making him a favourite with audiences, if not with critics. However, he is perhaps best remembered as a composer, particularly of the musical West Side Story, and for songs such as 'America', 'Tonight' and 'Somewhere'. Dr Helen Smith takes an in-depth look at all eight of Bernstein's musical theatre works, from the early On the Town written by the 26-year-old composer at the start of his career, to his second and last opera A Quiet Place in 1983; in between these two pieces he composed music for Trouble in Tahiti, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. These works are analysed and considered against a background of musical and social context, as well as looking at Bernstein's other orchestral, choral and chamber works. One important aspect examined is Bernstein's use of motifs in his theatre compositions, which takes them out of the realms of Broadway and into the sphere of symphonic writing. Smith provides an indispensable overview of the musical theatre works of an eclectic composer, and shows what it is that constitutes the Bernstein 'sound'.
Author : Sheldon Patinkin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810119943
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book "No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance" written by Sheldon Patinkin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the American musical from its rich beginnings in European opera. This book talks about the infancy of the musical - the revues, operettas, and early musical comedies, as well as the groundbreaking shows like "Oklahoma!" and "Show Boat", with references to how history, literature, fashion, popular music and movies influenced musical theater.
Author : Allen Forte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691043999
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (439 download)
Download or read book The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 written by Allen Forte and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
Author : Donald J. Stubblebine
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476605602
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Early Broadway Sheet Music written by Donald J. Stubblebine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, a companion to the author's Broadway Sheet Music: A Comprehensive Listing of Published Music from Broadway and Other Stage Shows, 1918 through 1993 (McFarland 1996), provides information about all sheet music published (1843-1918) from all Broadway productions--plus music from local shows, minstrel shows, night club acts, vaudeville acts, touring companies, and shows on the road that never made it to Broadway--and all the major musicals from Chicago.
Author : Stephen Banfield
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472080830
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Sondheim's Broadway Musicals written by Stephen Banfield and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth look at the work and career of one of the most important figures in the history of musical theater
Author : Elizabeth A. Wells
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810876663
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book West Side Story written by Elizabeth A. Wells and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wells presents a scholarly study of the American musical West Side Story, viewing the work from cultural, historical, and musical perspectives. --from publisher description.
Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521454292
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (542 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Music written by David Nicholls and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of American Music, first published in 1998, celebrates the richness of America's musical life. It was the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. American music is an intricate tapestry of many cultures, and the History reveals this wide array of influences from Native, European, African, Asian, and other sources. The History begins with a survey of the music of Native Americans and then explores the social, historical, and cultural events of musical life in the period until 1900. Other contributors examine the growth and influence of popular musics, including film and stage music, jazz, rock, and immigrant, folk, and regional musics. The volume also includes valuable chapters on twentieth-century art music, including the experimental, serial, and tonal traditions.
Author : Allen Forte
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133359
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Listening to Classic American Popular Songs written by Allen Forte and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenties, thirties, and forties, now-legendary American songwriters and lyricists created a repertoire of popular songs, songs that have captured the hearts of generations of music lovers. George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and many others, along with such lyricists as Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, and Dorothy Fields, produced extraordinary songs of signal importance to the American musical heritage. In this book Allen Forte shares his love of American popular song. He discusses in detail twenty-three songs, ranging from Gershwin’s “Fascinating Rhythm” (1924) to Irving Berlin’s “Steppin’ Out with My Baby” (1947), guiding readers and listeners toward a deeper appreciation of this vital and engaging music. Forte writes for the general reader, assuming no background other than a familiarity with basic music notation. Each song is discussed individually and includes complete lyrics and simple leadsheet notation. Forte discusses the songs’ distinctive musical features and their sophisticated, often touching and witty lyrics. Readers can follow the music while they listen to the accompanying compact disc, which was specially recorded for this volume by baritone Richard Lalli and pianist-arranger Gary Chapman, with Allen Forte, pianist-arranger for “Embraceable You” and “Come Rain or Come Shine”. Learn about these favorite songs and more: “How Long Has This Been Going On?” “What Is This Thing Called Love?” “Embraceable You” “Autumn in New York” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” “The Nearness of You” “That Old Black Magic” “Come Rain or Come Shine”
Author : Stephen M. Silverman
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0762482362
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Sondheim written by Stephen M. Silverman and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway legend. "Aside from Sondheim's own exceptional books...this may be the best coffee-table volume devoted to his work."(Shelf Awareness) Brimming with insights from a veritable Who's Who of Broadway Babies and complemented by more than two hundred color and black-and-white images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy offers a witty, multidimensional look at the musical genius behind Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, and the landmark West Side Story and Gypsy. Exploring the unique bond between Sondheim and his audiences, author Stephen M. Silverman further examines the challenging Sondheim works that continue to develop devoted new followings: Anyone Can Whistle, Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, Assassins, and Passion. The result is a lavish, highly engrossing documentation of the dynamic force who reshaped twentieth-century American musical history.
Author : Dave DiMartino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317464303
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Music in the 20th Century (3 Vol Set) written by Dave DiMartino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of the crucial formative period of Chinese attitudes toward nuclear weapons, the immediate post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki period and the Korean War. It also provides an account of US actions and attitudes during this period and China's response.
Author : John Kenrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474267017
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Musical Theatre written by John Kenrick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment. As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, author John Kenrick approaches the subject with a unique appreciation of musicals as both an art form and a business. Using anecdotes, biographical profiles, clear definitions, sample scenes and select illustrations, Kenrick focuses on landmark musicals, and on the extraordinary talents and business innovators who have helped musical theatre evolve from its roots in the dramas of ancient Athens all the way to the latest hits on Broadway and London's West End. Key improvements to the second edition: · A new foreword by Oscar Hammerstein III, a critically acclaimed historian and member of a family with deep ties to the musical theatre, is included · The 28 chapters are reformatted for the typical 14 week, 28 session academic course, as well as for a two semester, once-weekly format, making it easy for educators to plan a syllabus and reading assignments. · To make the book more interactive, each chapter includes suggested listening and reading lists, designed to help readers step beyond the printed page to experience great musicals and performers for themselves. A comprehensive guide to musical theatre as an international phenomenon, Musical Theatre: A History is an ideal textbook for university and secondary school students.
Author : John H Evans
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664114297
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)
Download or read book We Sang and Whistled Then written by John H Evans and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a magic to music—a feeling created that removes one from the humdrum constraints of everyday life to a wonderful make-believe world where, as famous lyricist E. Y. (Yip) Harburg put it in ‘Over the Rainbow’, troubles melt like lemon drops and dreams really do come true. In this book, you’ll meet the men of the early twentieth century who wrote the most wonderful creative music the world has ever known. Their music was matched by the brilliance of the lyricists, who were indeed the poets of the modern age. These men created a superb anthology of popular music, a canon that today is justifiably known as the Great American Songbook.
