Songwriters of the American musical theatre
Subtitle: a style guide for singers
By: Nathan Hurwitz
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781138914414; 9781138914421; 9781315690841
Subjects: Composers; Vocational guidance; Singers; History and criticism; Singing; Musicals
Other titles: Style guide for singers
Description: Musical roles require the ability to adapt to a panoply of characters and vocal styles. By breaking down these styles and exploring the output of the great composers, this book offers singers and performers an essential handbook. Each composer is examined through a brief biography, a stylistic overview, and a comprehensive song list with notes on suitable voice types and further reading.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: Light opera. Jacques Offenbach; title: Johann Strauss II; title: W.S. Gilbert; title: Sir Arthur Sullivan; title: Franz Lehár; title: Victor Herbert; title: Rudolf Friml; title: and Sigmund Romberg; title: Popular musical theatre songs of the early 1900s. George M. Cohan; title: Irving Berlin; title: Jerome Kern; title: The great songwriters of Tin Pan Alley. Harry Warren; title: Jimmy McHugh; title: Buddy DeSylva; title: Lew Brown; title: Ray Henderson; title: George Gershwin; title: Ira Gershwin; title: Arthur Schwartz; title: Howard Dietz; title: Harold Arlen; title: The great wits and sophisticates. Cole Porter; title: Richard Rodgers; title: and Lorenz Hart; title: E.Y. "Yip" Harburg; title: Johnny Mercer; title: Dorothy Fields; title: Vernon Duke; title: The great jazz composers. Eubie Blake; title: Jelly Roll Morton; title: Duke Ellington; title: Hoagy Carmichael; title: Fats Waller; title: The great jazz singers; title: The Golden Age : the integrated musical. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; title: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe; title: Frank Loesser; title: Kurt Weill; title: Burton Lane; title: Leonard Bernstein; title: Betty Comden and Adolph Green; title: Jule Styne; title: The culmination of the Golden Age of the American musical. Jerry Herman; title: Charles Strouse; title: Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt; title: Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick; title: Cy Coleman; title: John Kander and Fred Ebb; title: Sui generis. Stephen Sondheim; title: New sounds : the 1970s. Galt MacDermot; title: Stephen Schwartz; title: Marvin Hamlisch; title: Maury Yeston; title: Howard Ashman and Alan Menken; title: Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire; title: William Finn; title: The mega-musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber; title: Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil; title: Musicals of the 1990s and 2000s :  the new eclecticism. Elton John; title: Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty; title: Ricky Ian Gordon; title: Frank Wildhorn; title: Jonathan Larson; title: Jason Robert Brown; title: Jeanine Tesori; title: Michael John LaChiusa; title: Andrew Lippa; title: Adam Guettel and Tom Kitt; title: Other popular styles : the jukebox musicals.