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Show Tunes - The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition) Loot Price: R2,339
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Show Tunes - The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition): Steven Suskin

Show Tunes - The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition)

Steven Suskin

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Show Tunes fully chronicles the shows, songs, and careers of the major composers of the American musical theatre, from Jerome Kern's earliest interpolations to the latest hits on Broadway. Legendary composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Porter, Berlin, Bernstein, and Sondheim have been joined by more recent songwriters like Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Flaherty, Michael John LaChiusa, and Adam Guettel. This majestic reference book covers their work, their innovations, their successes, and their failures. Show Tunes is simply the most comprehensive volume of its kind ever produced, and this newly revised and updated edition discusses almost 1,000 shows and 9,000 show tunes. The book has been called "a concise skeleton key to the Broadway musical" (Variety) and "a ground-breaking reference work with a difference" (Show Music)-or, as the Washington Post observed, "It makes you sing and dance all over your memory."
The eagerly anticipated Fourth Edition, updated through May, 2009, features the entire theatrical output of forty of Broadway's leading composers, in addition to a wide selection of work by other songwriters. The listings include essential production data and statistics, the most extensive information available on published and recorded songs, and lively commentary on the shows, songs, and diverse careers. Based on meticulous research, the book also uncovers dozens of lost musicals-including shows that either closed out of town or were never headed for Broadway-and catalogs hundreds of previously unknown songs, including a number of musical gems that have been misplaced, cut, or forgotten. Informative, insightful, and provocative, Show Tunes is an essential guide for anyone interested in the American musical.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2010
First published: March 2010
Authors: Steven Suskin
Dimensions: 259 x 187 x 49mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 624
Edition: 4th Revised edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-531407-6
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Musical theatre
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
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LSN: 0-19-531407-7
Barcode: 9780195314076

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