"Why Aren't They Talking?": The Sung-Through Musical from the 1980s to the 2010s

ISBN-13: 9781108791939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 76 str.

Alex (University of Cincinnati) Badue

Opis

This Element explores the procedures and techniques through which music communicates drama when very little is spoken in a musical.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Opera or broadway musical: The human comedy; 2. “You hear it sung . . . and the world seems different”: William Finn's sung-through; 3. Scores; 4. Nearly sung-through; 5. “Maid for broadway”: The sung-through structure of Caroline, or change; 6. “We sing it anyway”: The sung-through musical in the early twenty-first century; Epilogue: “What's this cheery singing all about?”; Bibliography.