Musical Theater

Alyson McLamore is Professor of Music History at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where she has been recognized with the university's Distinguished Teaching Award.

• Part I The Antecedents to the Genre of "Musical Theater"1 The Birth of "Staged" Music2 Developing Genres in the Eighteenth Century: Ballad Opera and Singspiel3 Developing Genres in the Eighteenth Century: Opera Buffa and Dramma Giocoso4 The Musical Stage in the American ColoniesPart II The Musical Stage in the Nineteenth Century5 France and Spain in the Nineteenth Century6 The Serious and the Not-so-Serious: Germany, Italy, and Austria in the Nineteenth Century7 England in the Nineteenth Century: Gilbert and Sullivan8 The United States in the Early Nineteenth Century9 New American Genres of the Later Nineteenth Century10 Operetta in America, 1880–1903Part III Diverging Paths in the Twentieth Century11 The Continuing Dominance of Operetta12 Challenges to Operetta13 The Princess Shows14 Increasing Drama on the Stage15 Musical Theater of the Lighter KindPart IV Beginnings of a Golden Age: Synthesis of Style and Substance16 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: Kern and Hammerstein17 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: Rodgers and Hart18 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: The Gershwins (1)19 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: The Gershwins (2)20 Great Solo Acts: Irving Berlin21 Great Solo Acts: Cole Porter and Other Efforts in the 1930s Part V A Greater Maturity 22 New Achievements from Familiar Names: Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin23 A Cole Porter Renaissance and the Rise of Recognition24 Politics and Social CommentaryPart VI New Partnerships25 Rodgers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma!26 Rodgers and Hammerstein: Carousel and South Pacific27 Rodgers and Hammerstein: The King and I and The Sound of Music28 Lerner and LoewePart VII New Faces of the 1940s and 1950s29 Leonard Bernstein30 Jule Styne and Frank Loesser31 Meredith Willson and Other Faces of the 1950sPart VIII New Faces of the 1960s and 1970s32 New Names in Lights in the 1960s33 Sondheim in the 1960s: Flash in the Pan?34 New Partnerships: Bock and Harnick 35 New Partnerships: Kander and Ebb36 New Partnerships: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice37 Wunderkinder of the 1970s38 Sondheim in the 1970s: The Endless ExperimentsPart IX The Late Twentieth Century—and Beyond39 Andrew Lloyd Webber Without Tim Rice: Cats and Starlight Express40 The Luxuriant Lloyd Webber41 The New Team in Town: Schönberg and Boublil42 New Names, New Teams in the 1980s43 Stephen Sondheim: Never a Formula44 A Surge of "Soloists"45 Team Efforts—The 1990s and Beyond46 Whither Musical Theater?