Here for the hearing : analyzing the music in musical theater /

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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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Buchler, Michael Howard, 1966- (Editor), Decker, Gregory J. (Gregory John) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, May 2023.
Series:Tracking pop.
Subjects:
1900-2099
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.
Musicals.
New York (State) > New York.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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