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Stephen Banfield - Sondheim's Broadway Musicals - 9780472080830 - V9780472080830
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Sondheim's Broadway Musicals

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Description for Sondheim's Broadway Musicals Paperback. The first book to take an in-depth look at Sondheim's work. Stephen Banfield examines each of Sondheim's musicals for Broadway, from West Side Story and Gypsy to the 1987 musical Into the Woods . Banfield also discusses Sondheim's other work, such as the 1991 show Assassins and his music for the 1990 film Dick Tracy . Series: The Michigan American Music S. Num Pages: 472 pages, Musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 33. Weight in Grams: 724.

With thirteen Broadway musicals to his credit, Stephen Sondheim's career in the musical theater has outdistanced those of most of his contemporaries. Each of his shows has presented new challenges to audiences, and each has cast fresh perspectives on the nature and potential of the American musical, as well as probing deeply, often painfully, into the nature of our culture.
Sondheim's Broadway Musicals is the first book to take an in-depth look at Sondheim's work. Stephen Banfield examines each of Sondheim's musicals for Broadway, from West Side Story and Gypsy to the 1987 musical Into the Woods, and includes A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, Anyone Can Whistle, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, Sweeney Todd, and Sunday in the Park with George. Banfield also discusses Sondheim's other work, such as the 1991 show Assassins and his music for the 1990 film Dick Tracy--for which "Sooner or Later" won him an Academy Award for Best Song.
"Banfield seems almost to hear Sondheim's music with Sondheim's ears. This extremely valuable work discusses Sondheim's early training and subsequent career, his general compositional concerns, and his style. The meat of the book is a musical-dramatic analysis of his musicals . . . . For each musical, Banfield places the work and its components in a historical and typological text. He also treats in welcome detail the musical profile or universe of each show: Sondheim's use of generative intervals or interval complexes as source material, motifs that reappear in various guises in various songs, the sound world that defines the musical's emotional mind. The book will be as useful to those who are cool to Sondheim's work as to his fans." --Choice

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Series
The Michigan American Music S.
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472080830
SKU
V9780472080830
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Stephen Banfield
Stephen Banfield is Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music, University of Bristol, England. His other books include: Sensibility and English Song: Critical Studies of the Early Twentieth Century, Gerald Finzi: An English Composer, and the forthcoming book Jerome Kern. Sondheim's Broadway Musicals has been awarded the Kurt Weill Prize, for a best book on musical theatre, and the Lowens Award.

Reviews for Sondheim's Broadway Musicals
This book—the first in-depth investigation of Sondheim's work—treats its subject with intellectual rigor and ardent appreciation." - American Theatre

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