Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a textbook designed to demystify music theory and analysis to make it more accessible to the musical theatre student. It aims to equip the student with a basic skill set that he or she can directly apply to the art form. John Bell and Steven R. Chicurel explore how musical theatre composers use basic principles of music theory to help illuminate characters and tell stories; while helping the student understand the form; structure; and dramatic power of musical theatre repertoire.The material is presented in three parts. Part I breaks down key concepts in the rudiments of music theory; including melody; rhythm; harmony; and form; while using excerpts from musical theatre literature to illustrate these ideas. Part II offers full analyses of musical theatre songs; presenting a model for singing actors on how to use musical analysis as an aid in performance. The workbook in Part III provides hands-on drills and exercises that the reader can use to facilitate skill development of the ideas presented in part one. Published with a lay-flat binding for easy use in the classroom and concluding with a glossary that reinforces important terminology; this textbook fills a long-neglected need in musical theatre study that will be beneficial to beginning and advanced students alike.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Millikin professors excellence in printBy David C. GregoryProfessor Guillorys pictorial review of Decatur perfectly compliments his other work. "Images of America: Decatur."Having had parents who grew up during WWII. this book instantly took them back to that time. The images of the now-gone businesses. the names of people they remembered. and the story told through this wonderful compilation was moving. My father particularly enjoyed the section devoted to the Civil War. It was encouraging for me to see how patriotic and devoted our ancestors truly were regardless of the era or why the country called them to service. It was also interesting to see names of people in our community whose relatives were war heroes.For anyone who has ever called Decatur. Illinois home. Guillorys books on Decatur should definitely be in your library.
