Authors: Joseph P. Swain
ISBN-13: 9780810843769, ISBN-10: 0810843765
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 2nd Edition
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 This new edition also includes a previously unpublished essay on Les MisZrables. 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.
Preface to the First Edition | ||
Preface to the Second Edition | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | First Maturity | 17 |
3 | America's Folk Opera | 55 |
4 | Second Maturity | 81 |
5 | Morality Play as Musical | 109 |
6 | Shakespeare as Musical | 139 |
7 | The Pure Love Story | 165 |
8 | Myth as Musical | 193 |
9 | Tragedy as Musical | 221 |
10 | The Ethnic Musical | 265 |
11 | Religious Experience as Musical | 295 |
12 | History as Musical | 315 |
13 | Frame Story as Musical | 333 |
14 | Thriller as Musical | 347 |
15 | Epic as Musical | 385 |
16 | Epilogue | 409 |
Endnotes | 423 | |
Index | 443 | |
About the Author | 452 |