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West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration (Hardcover)
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West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Music
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In this ground-breaking study, Paul Laird examines the process and
effect of orchestration in West Side Story and Gypsy, two musicals
that were among the most significant Broadway shows of the 1950s,
and remain important in the modern repertory. Drawing on extensive
archival research with original manuscripts, Laird provides a
detailed account of the process of orchestration for these
musicals, and their context in the history of Broadway
orchestration. He argues that the orchestration plays a vital role
in the characterization and plot development in each major musical
number, opening a new avenue for analysis that deepens our
understanding of the musical as an art form. The orchestration of
the score in Broadway musicals deeply shapes their final
soundscapes, but only recently has it begun to receive real
attention. Linked by a shared orchestrator, in other ways West Side
Story and Gypsy offer a study in contrasts. Breaking down how the
two composers, Leonard Bernstein and Jules Styne, collaborated with
orchestrators Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal, and Robert Ginzler, Laird's
study enables us to better understand both of these two iconic
shows, and the importance of orchestration within musical theatre
in general.
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