THE SOUND OF BROADWAY MUSIC

Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit. Steven Suskin has meticulously tracked down thousands of original orchestral scores, piecing together enigmatic notes and notations with long-forgotten documents and current interviews with dozens of composers, producers, conductors and arrangers.

VERSE On Orchestrators and Orchestration
REFRAIN Men of Notes (and a Few Women, Too)

Section I. The Dreyfus System
Section II. Twelve Major Orchestrators
Section III. Ghosts and Other Helpers
Section IV. Valued Members of the Music Department
Section V. Assessing Orchestrators

BRIDGE The Art of Orchestration
Section I. From Song to Stage
Section II. The Arrangement
Section III. Overture
Section IV. Meet the Colors
Section V. Then Comes the Orchestrator
Section VI. The Orchestration
Section VII. Putting It Together
Section VIII. Sweeney in the Pit with Steve

FINAL REFRAIN What’s the Score?
Section I. About the Listings
Section II. The Listings
Section III. Additional Shows by Other Orchestrators
CODA
Section I. Chronology
Section II. Acknowledgments
Section III. Sources and Bibliography
INDEX

Páginas : 672
Peso : 3mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2009
ISBN : 978-0195309478
Editorial : Oxford University
Autor Steven Suskin