The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist
eBook - ePub

The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist

A Handbook for Collaboration

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist

A Handbook for Collaboration

About this book

Dramaturgy is at the heart of any musical theatre score, proving that song and music combined can collectively act as drama. The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist: A Handbook for Collaboration offers techniques for approaching a musical with the drama at the centre of the music. Written by a working composer of British musical theatre, this original and highly practical book is intended for composers, students of musical theatre and performing arts and their collaborators. Through detailed case studies, conceptual frameworks and frank analysis, this book encourages the collaboration between the languages of music and drama. It offers a shared language for talking about music in the creation of musical theatre, as well as practical exercises for both composers and their collaborators and ways of analysing existing musical theatre scores for those who are versed in musical terminology, and those who are not. Speaking directly to the contemporary artist, working examples are drawn from a wide range of musicals throughout Part One, before a full case study analysis of Everybody's Talking About Jamie brings all the ideas together in Part Two. Part Three offers a range of practical exercises for anyone creating new musicals, particularly composers and their collaborators.

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Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781350229402
eBook ISBN
9781350229433
Edition
1
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Part One: Section one The first shared language: Theme
  7. Section two The second shared language: Shape
  8. Part Two Piecing it together in analysis
  9. Part Three Piecing it together in the creative process
  10. References
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index
  13. Imprint