The Musical: A Research Guide to Musical Theater and Film by William A Everett

By William A Everett

In addition to being some of the most well known and available genres, musical theatre is likely one of the such a lot collaborative arts; concerning composers, writers, visible artists, performers, directorys. choreographers, brokers, critics and audiences. e Musical is the 1st large-scale annotated bibliography of this topic and covers the 'Broadway' musical in addition to the movie musical and musical types all over the world. Sections comprise: basic histories; musical theatre surveys; movie musicals; creators and works; performers; functionality experiences; periodicals; units and sequence of revealed fabric; discographies; and recorded anthologies.

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By William A Everett

In addition to being some of the most well known and available genres, musical theatre is likely one of the such a lot collaborative arts; concerning composers, writers, visible artists, performers, directorys. choreographers, brokers, critics and audiences. e Musical is the 1st large-scale annotated bibliography of this topic and covers the 'Broadway' musical in addition to the movie musical and musical types all over the world. Sections comprise: basic histories; musical theatre surveys; movie musicals; creators and works; performers; functionality experiences; periodicals; units and sequence of revealed fabric; discographies; and recorded anthologies.

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Listening to Classic American Popular Songs. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. 219 p. ISBN 0-300-08338-6. F672 2001. This discussion of twenty-three songs, all but one from musical theater and film, is written for the general reader with a basic understanding of music. Forte begins the book with a chapter on technical aspects of music (melody, harmony, form, lyrics, rhythm). He includes lead sheets and complete lyrics for each song and looks at them as autonomous entities, focusing on their individual attributes rather than their dramatic functions or places within broader musical or dramatic contexts.

M39 1987. 30 The Musical One of the few surveys of the American musical to integrate stage and screen works, Mast offers insight into the genre as a whole, its principal issues and trends, works, and creators. 113. Mates, Julian. The American Musical Stage before 1800. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1962. 331 p. M4 (UMKC). Mates discusses eighteenth-century American musical theater by topic: (1) entertainments related to the musical stage, (2) theaters and audiences, (3) theater orchestras, (4) companies, (5) repertory, (6) librettists and composers, and (7) performance and criticism.

Broadway musical and the American business ethic, as well as America’s involvement in that ethic. He cites How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying and All That Jazz as examples in his discourse. 171. Wolf, Stacy. A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. 289 p. ISBN 0-472-09772-5. W65 2002. Taking a feminist reading of the American musical theater, Wolf looks to Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand as lesbian idols and cites The Sound of Music as a “lesbian ur-text” (p.

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