Description: Sound of Broadway Music : A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations, Paperback by Suskin, Steven, ISBN 0199790841, ISBN-13 9780199790845, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Broadways top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about these unsung stars
of the Broadway musical whose work is so vital to each shows success. Th examines the careers of Broadways major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composers piano to the orchestra pit. Steven Suskin has meticulously tracked down thousands of original orchestral
scores, piecing together enigmatic notes and notations with long-forgotten documents and current interviews with dozens of composers, producers, conductors and arrangers. The information is separated into three main parts: a biographical section which gives a sense of the life and world of twelve
major theatre orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty arrangers and conductors; a lively discussion of the art of orchestration, written for musical theatre enthusiasts (including those who do not read music); a biographical section which gives a sense of the life
and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty arrangers and conductors; and an impressive show-by-show listing of more than seven hundred musicals, in many cases including a song-by-song listing of precisely who orchestrated what along
with relevant comments from people involved with the productions. Stocked with intriguing facts and juicy anecdotes, many of which have never before appeared in print, The Sound of Broadway Music brings fascinating and often surprising new insight into the world of musical theatre.
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Book Title: Sound of Broadway Music : a Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations
Number of Pages: 672 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 1.4 in
Topic: Genres & Styles / Musicals, Theater / Broadway & Musicals, General, Instruction & Study / Techniques
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Performing Arts
Item Weight: 32.8 Oz
Item Length: 6.1 in
Author: Steven Suskin
Item Width: 9.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback