Broadway Musical - 2nd Edition by Joseph P Swain (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This new edition of Swain's classic award-winning text reveals how a musical drama achieves plot movement, character development and conflict through strategic placement of music in twenty impressive productions.
- About the Author: Joseph Peter Swain is associate professor of music at Colgate University.
- 464 Pages
- Performing Arts, Theater
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About the Book
This new edition of Swain's classic award-winning text reveals how a musical drama achieves plot movement, character development and conflict through strategic placement of music in twenty impressive productions. Included is the latest research and viewpoints of contemporary c...Book Synopsis
This new edition of Swain's classic award-winning text reveals how a musical drama achieves plot movement, character development and conflict through strategic placement of music in twenty impressive productions. Included is the latest research and viewpoints of contemporary critics, highlighting the various styles of important composers including Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Jerry Bock, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. This new edition also includes a previously unpublished essay on Les Misérables. An expanded epilogue offers insight into the phenomena behind Miss Saigon and Phantom of the Opera, "megamusicals" which seemingly popularized the Broadway tradition. For people interested in Broadway musicals, theater, popular music, American music, opera and/or twentieth-century music.Review Quotes
Swain's study should convince even the sceptic that the musical can be seriously and usefully analysed....an essential book for those concerned with drama, song and popular arts.
Swain's study should convince even the skeptic that the musical can be seriously and usefully analysed...an essential book for those concerned with drama, song, and popular arts....Swain has not only advanced the critical analysis of the Broadway musical, but has developed techniques that will enable the great composers of musicals to be given appropriate critical recognition.
Swain's valuable survey contains a great deal of perceptive musical and dramatic criticism and analysis.
About the Author
Joseph Peter Swain is associate professor of music at Colgate University. He received his Ph.D. in music at Harvard University in 1983 and has been nominated by the music department for a Lehman Fellowship.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.16 Inches (W) x 1.35 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.56 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 464
Genre: Performing Arts
Sub-Genre: Theater
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Theme: Broadway & Musicals
Format: Paperback
Author: Joseph P Swain
Language: English
Street Date: November 19, 2002
TCIN: 1004110567
UPC: 9780810843769
Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-1368
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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