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Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story (Paperback)
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Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story (Paperback)
Series: Landmarks in Music Since 1950
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One of the Broadway musicals that can genuinely claim to have
transformed the genre, West Side Story has been featured in many
books on Broadway, but it has yet to be the focus of a scholarly
monograph. Nigel Simeone begins by exploring the long process of
creating West Side Story, including a discussion of Bernstein's
sketches, early drafts of the score and script, as well as cut
songs. The core of the book is a commentary on the music itself.
West Side Story is one of the very few Broadway musicals for which
there is a complete published orchestral score, as well as two
different editions of the piano-vocal score. The survival of the
original copied orchestral score, and the reminiscences of Sid
Ramin and Irwin Kostal, reveal details of the orchestration
process, and the extent to which Bernstein was involved in this.
Simeone's commentary considers: musical characteristics and
compositional techniques used to mirror the drama (for example, the
various uses of the tritone), motivic development, the use and
reinvention of Broadway and other conventions, the creation of
dramatic continuity in the score through the use of motifs and
other devices, the unusual degree of dissonance and rhythmic
complexity (at least for the time), and the integration of
Latin-American dance forms (Mambo, Huapango and so on). Simeone
also considers the reception of West Side Story in the contemporary
press. The stir the show caused included the response that it was
the angular, edgy score that made it a remarkable achievement. Not
all reviews were uncritical. Finally, the book looks in detail at
the making of the original Broadway cast recording, made in just
one day, included on the accompanying downloadable resources.
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