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Title Here for the hearing : analyzing the music in musical theater / Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker, editors.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, May 2023.
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages) : illustrations.
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online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Tracking pop
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Access Open access MiU
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discographies and index.
Contents "Was it ever real?" : tonic return via stepwise modulation in Broadway songs / Nathan Beary Blustein -- Sondheim's dissonent tonality / Drew Nobile -- Topical interpretive strategies in American musical theater : three brief case studies / Gregory J. Decker -- A phenomenological approach to music theater rhyme / Richard Plotkin -- The changing rhythms of bridges and ends / Rachel Short -- Three notions of long-range form in Guys and dolls / Michael Buchler -- Style, tonality, and sexuality in The Rocky Horror show / Nicole Biamonte -- Music, time, and memory in Jason Robert Brown's The last five years / Jonathan de Souza -- Lesbian desire in Fun home / Rachel Lumsden -- The hip-hop history of Hamilton / Robert Komaniecki -- "Isn't it queer?" : the Kinsey Sicks and the art of Broadway parody / J. Daniel Jenkins.
Summary This book offers a series of essays that show the integrated role that musical structure (including harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, form, and musical association) plays in making sense of what transpires onstage in musicals. Written by a group of music analysts who care deeply about musical theater, this collection provides new understanding of how musicals are put together, how composers and lyricists structure words and music to complement one another, and how music helps us understand the human relationships and historical and social contexts. Using a wide range of musical examples, representing the history of musical theater from the 1920s to the present day, the book explores how music interacts with dramatic elements within individual shows and other pieces within and outside of the genre. These essays invite readers to consider issues that are fundamental both to our understanding of musical theater and to the multiple ways we engage with music.
Funding Sponsored by Florida State University
Note This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Description based on information from the publisher.
Subject Musicals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Musicals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Musicology.
Music theory.
Musicologie.
Théorie musicale.
musicology.
Music theory
Musicals
Musicology
New York (State) -- New York https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRvQh7864Jh4rDGBFDWc
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Buchler, Michael Howard, 1966- editor
Decker, Gregory J. (Gregory John), editor.
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Added Title Analyzing the music in musical theater
ISBN 9780472903535 (electronic bk.)
0472903535 (electronic bk.)
9780472133314 hardcover book
9780472039302 paperback book
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.11969716 doi

 
    
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