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This book offers a series of essays that show the integrated role that musical structure (including harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, form, and musical association) plays in making sense of what transpires onstage in musicals. Written by a group of music analysts who care deeply about musical theater, this collection provides new understanding of how musicals are put together, how composers and lyricists structure words and music to complement one another, and how music helps us understand the human relationships and historical and social contexts. Using a wide range of musical examples, representing the history of musical theater from the 1920s to the present day, the book explores how music interacts with dramatic elements within individual shows and other pieces within and outside of the genre. These essays invite readers to consider issues that are fundamental both to our understanding of musical theater and to the multiple ways we engage with music.
Michael Buchler is Professor of Music Theory at Florida State University.Gregory J. Decker is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Bowling Green State University.
List of Examples and FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroductionMichael Buchler and Gregory J. DeckerPart 1: Chapters that engage multiple worksChapter 1. “Was It Ever Real?”: Tonic Return via Stepwise Modulation in Broadway SongsNathan Beary Blustein (American University)Chapter 2. Sondheim’s Dissonant TonalityDrew Nobile (University of Oregon)Chapter 3. Topical Interpretive Strategies in American Musical Theatre: Three Brief Case StudiesGregory J. Decker (Bowling Green State University)Chapter 4. A Phenomenological Approach to Music Theater RhymeRichard Plotkin (New York, NY)Chapter 5. The Changing Rhythms of Bridges and EndsRachel Short (Shenandoah Conservatory)Part 2: Chapters that engage a single work, organized chronologicallyChapter 6. Three Notions of Long-Range Form in Guys and DollsMichael Buchler (Florida State University)Chapter 7. Style, Tonality, and Sexuality in The Rocky Horror ShowNicole Biamonte (McGill University)Chapter 8. Music, Time, and Memory in Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five YearsJonathan De Souza (University of Western Ontario)Chapter 9. Lesbian Desire in Fun HomeRachel Lumsden (Florida State University)Chapter 10. The Hip-Hop History of HamiltonRobert Komaniecki (University of Iowa)Chapter 11. “Isn’t it queer?”: The Kinsey Sicks and the Art of Broadway ParodyJ. Daniel Jenkins (University of South Carolina)List of ContributorsIndex
2025 Kurt Weill Book Prize Honorable Mention for Drew Nobile's “Sondheim's Dissonant Tonality” from Here for the Hearing