The Sound of Broadway Music
A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 April 2009
- ISBN 9780195309478
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages672 pages
- Size 165x239x50 mm
- Weight 1097 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 halftones 0
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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. The information is separated into three main parts: a biographical section which gives a sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty arrangers and conductors; a lively discussion of the art of orchestration, written for musical theatre enthusiasts (including those who do not read music); a biographical section which gives a sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty arrangers and conductors; and an impressive show-by-show listing of more than six hundred musicals, in many cases including a song-by-song listing of precisely who orchestrated what along with relevant comments from people involved with the productions. Stocked with intriguing facts and juicy anecdotes, many of which have never before appeared in print, The Sound of Broadway Music brings fascinating and often surprising new insight into the world of musical theatre.
Steven Suskin's six hundred and fifty pages of information substantiating the contribution of orchestrators to the music of Broadway is nothing less than jaw-dropping. Their working relationship with the composers of Broadway scores and directors of Broadway shows is fascinating in its detail. There can be no comparable feat of research more meticulous than this valuable addition to the history of American musical theater.
Table of Contents:
Verse: On Orchestrators and Orchestration
Refrain: Men of Notes (And a Few Women, Too)
The Dreyfus System
Twelve Major Orchestrators
Ghosts and Other Helpers
Valued Members of the Music Department
Comparative Orchestrators
Bridge: The Art of Orchestration
From Song to Stage
The Arrangement
Overture
Meet the Colors
And Then Comes the Orchestrator
The Orchestration
Putting it Together
"Sweeney in the Pit with Steve"
Final Refrain: What's the Score?
About the Listings
The Listings
Additional Shows by Other Orchestrators
Coda
Chronology
Acknowledgements
Sources and Bibliography
Index
