Here for the Hearing : Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater.
- 1st ed.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Examples -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction | Michael Buchler and Gregory J . Decker -- Part 1: Chapters That Engage Multiple Works -- Chapter 1. "Was It Ever Real?" Tonic Return via Stepwise Modulation in Broadway Songs | Nathan Beary Blustein -- Chapter 2. Sondheim's Dissonant Tonality | Drew Nobile -- Chapter 3. Topical Interpretive Strategies in American Musical Theater: Three Brief Case Studies | Gregory J. Decker -- Chapter 4. A Phenomenological Approach to Music Theater Rhyme | Richard Plotkin -- Chapter 5. The Changing Rhythms of Bridges and Ends | Rachel Short -- Part 2: Chapters That Engage a Single Work -- Chapter 6. Three Notions of Long-Range Form in Guys and Dolls | Michael Buchler -- Chapter 7. Style, Tonality, and Sexuality in The Rocky Horror Show | Nicole Biamonte -- Chapter 8. Music, Time, and Memory in Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years | Jonathan De Souza -- Chapter 9. Lesbian Desire in Fun Home | Rachel Lumsden -- Chapter 10. The Hip-Hop History of Hamilton | Robert Komaniecki -- Chapter 11. "Isn't It Queer?" The Kinsey Sicks and the Art of Broadway Parody | J. Daniel Jenkins -- Contributors -- Index.