Description
Book SynopsisWritten by a group of music analysts who care deeply about musical theatre, 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.
Table of Contents
- List of Examples and Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker
- Part 1: Chapters that engage multiple works
- Chapter 1. “Was It Ever Real?”: Tonic Return via Stepwise Modulation in Broadway Songs
- Nathan Beary Blustein (American University)
- Chapter 2. Sondheim’s Dissonant Tonality
- Drew Nobile (University of Oregon)
- Chapter 3. Topical Interpretive Strategies in American Musical Theatre: Three Brief Case Studies
- Gregory J. Decker (Bowling Green State University)
- Chapter 4. A Phenomenological Approach to Music Theater Rhyme
- Richard Plotkin (New York, NY)
- Chapter 5. The Changing Rhythms of Bridges and Ends
- Rachel Short (Shenandoah Conservatory)
- Part 2: Chapters that engage a single work, organized chronologically
- Chapter 6. Three Notions of Long-Range Form in Guys and Dolls
- Michael Buchler (Florida State University)
- Chapter 7. Style, Tonality, and Sexuality in The Rocky Horror Show
- Nicole Biamonte (McGill University)
- Chapter 8. Music, Time, and Memory in Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years
- Jonathan De Souza (University of Western Ontario)
- Chapter 9. Lesbian Desire in Fun Home
- Rachel Lumsden (Florida State University)
- Chapter 10. The Hip-Hop History of Hamilton
- Robert Komaniecki (University of Iowa)
- Chapter 11. “Isn’t it queer?”: The Kinsey Sicks and the Art of Broadway Parody
- J. Daniel Jenkins (University of South Carolina)
- List of Contributors
- Index
