[audiobook] Hands-On Guide to Windows Media (Hands-On Guide Series) by Joe Follansbee at Arts-Photography

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To see a Broadway musical is to experience how a drama; using melody; harmony; and rhythm; evokes the emotion needed to perpetuate a story line. Without music; many of these plays would not succeed; failing to convey the intended message. This new edition of Swains classic text; winner of the 1991 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award; reveals how a musical drama achieves plot movement; character development and conflict through strategic placement of song and music in 20 musical plays. Unlike critical literature that has simply explored theatrical style and production histories; this survey focuses mainly on the power of music. Illustrated with more than 150 musical excerpts and essays; Swain includes the latest research and viewpoints of contemporary critics; offering insight into dramatic expression and how renowned composers including Jerome Kern; George Gershwin; Jerry Bock; Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber influenced the Broadway musical.This provides insights into the many impressive musicals to hit the stage between the years of 1927 and 1987; illuminating how specific revisions to productions such as Showboat and; Oklahoma! forever changed their popularity. Learn how music is used as a symbol for psychological or emotional action from Shakespearean dramas such as Kiss Me; Kate and West Side Story; to more current dramas including Godspell; A Chorus Line; and Jesus Christ Superstar.Replete with a never seen before essay on Les Miseacute;rables; this edition also includes an expanded epilogue highlighting the phenomena behind Miss Saigon and Phantom of the Opera; "megamusicals" that changed the direction of the Broadway tradition. For professors of dramatic arts and people interested in Broadway musicals; theater; popular music and opera.