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Language: en
Pages: 465
Authors: Joseph P. Swain
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-19 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

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To see a Broadway musical is to experience how a drama, using melody, harmony, and rhythm, evokes the emotion needed to perpetuate a story line. Without music,
The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Joseph P. Swain
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-19 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

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To see a Broadway musical is to experience how a drama, using melody, harmony, and rhythm, evokes the emotion needed to perpetuate a story line. Without music,
The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity
Language: en
Pages: 489
Authors: Raymond Knapp
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The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best inte
Enchanted Evenings : The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim
Language: en
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Authors: Washington Geoffrey Block Professor of Music University of Puget Sound
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10-02 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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The classic musicals of Broadway can provide us with truly enchanted evenings. But while many of us can hum the music and even recount the plot from memory, we
The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical
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This text presents keywords and critical terms that deepen analysis and interpretation of the musical. Taking into account issues of composition, performance, a