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This book offers a series of essays that show the integrated role that musical structure (including harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, form, and musical association) plays in making sense of what transpires onstage in musicals. Written by a group of music analysts who care deeply about musical theater, 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. Using a wide range of musical examples, representing the history of musical theater from the 1920s to the present day, the book explores how music interacts with dramatic elements within individual shows and other pieces within and outside of the genre. These essays invite readers to consider issues that are fundamental both to our understanding of musical theater and to the multiple ways we engage with music.

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

About the Author :
Michael Buchler is Professor of Music Theory at Florida State University. Gregory J. Decker is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Bowling Green State University.

Review :
“This collection makes a significant contribution to the study of Anglophone musical theater by grounding discussions of meaning in the particulars of musical materials, using sophisticated methods developed by scholars of classical and popular music repertories. It touches on musicals old and new, traditional and experimental, conservative and progressive. It should inspire (if we’re lucky) even more such scholarship on this historically and culturally significant musical tradition.” “An important, timely, and engaging collection of essays on analytic approaches to the Broadway musical. The breadth of repertoire and analytical methodologies is impressive, and this reader learned something new from every essay.” "Here for the Hearing is a fine collection of essays that succeeds in its goal of demonstrating how the musical structure of songs in musicals plays an important role in telling the shows' stories and making the characters in those shows come to life."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780472039302
  • Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 310
  • Series Title: Tracking Pop
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 047203930X
  • Publisher Date: 22 May 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 310
  • Sub Title: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater


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