The sound of Broadway music : a book of orchestrators and orchestrations / Steven Suskin.
- 作者： Suskin, Steven.
- 出版： Oxford ;New York : Oxford University Press 2009.
- 主題： Instrumentation and orchestration--History. , Orchestrators. , Musicals--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.
- URL：
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0811/2008005333.htm
- ISBN： 9780195309478 :: NT1435 、 0195309472
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號： 005092860 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Broadway's 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 show's success. The book examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's 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.
內容註
Verse : on orchestrators and orchestration -- Refrain : men of notes (and a few women, too) -- Section I. The Dreyfus system -- Section II. Twelve major orchestrators. Russell Bennett ; Ralph Burns ; Robert "Red" Ginzler ; Hershy Kay ; Irwin "Irv" Kostal ; Philip J. Lang ; Sid Ramin ; Ted Royal ; Eddie Sauter ; Hans Spialek ; Don Walker ; Larry Wilcox -- Section III. Ghosts and other helpers -- Section IV. Valued members of the music department. Roger Adams ; Franz Allers ; Jack Andrews ; David Baker ; Jay Blackton ; Pembroke Davenport ; Buster Davis ; Frederick Dvonch ; Lehman Engel ; Marion Evans ; Dorothea Freitag ; Joe Glover ; Max Goberman ; Herbert Greene ; Hal Hastings ; Luther Henderson ; Peter Howard ; Elliot Lawrence ; Stanley Lebowsky ; Hugh Martin ; Jack Mason ; Peter Matz ; John Morris ; Robert H. Noeltner ; Walter Paul ; Mathilde Pincus ; Donald Pippin ; Genevieve Pitot ; Trude Rittman ; Milton Rosenstock ; Menotti Salta ; William Stegmeyer ; Jim Tyler ; Betty Walberg -- Section V. Assessing orchestrators -- Bridge : The art of orchestration -- Section I. From song to stage -- Section II. The arrangement -- Section III. Overture -- Section IV. Meet the colors -- Section V. Then comes the orchestrator -- Section VI. The orchestration -- Section VII. Putting it together -- Section VIII. Sweeney in the pit with Steve -- Final refrain: What's the score? -- Section I. About the listings -- Section II. The listings -- Section III. Additional shows by other orchestrators -- Coda -- Section I. Chronology -- Section II. Acknowledgements -- Section III. Sources and bibliography -- Index.