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<p><P><b>Show Tunes</b> fully chronicles the shows, songs, and careers of the major composers of the American musical theatre, from Jerome Kern's earliest interpolations to the latest hits on Broadway. Legendary composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Porter, Berlin, Bernstein, and Sondheim have been joined by more recent songwriters like Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Flaherty, Michael John LaChiusa, and Adam Guettel. This majestic reference book covers their work, their innovations, their successes, and their failures. <b>Show Tunes</b> is simply the most comprehensive volume of its kind ever produced, and this newly revised and updated edition discusses almost 1,000 shows and 9,000 show tunes. The book has been called "a concise skeleton key to the Broadway musical" (<b>Variety</b>) and "a ground-breaking reference work with a difference" (<b>Show Music</b>)-or, as the <b>Washington Post </b>observed, "It makes you sing and dance all over your memory."<br> The eagerly anticipated Fourth Edition, updated through May, 2009, features the entire theatrical output of forty of Broadway's leading composers, in addition to a wide selection of work by other songwriters. The listings include essenti

Author

Suskin, Steven; Suskin, Steven. Show tunes, 1905-1991

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199742097

Subjects

Music, Arts