Bibliograph

Great American music, Broadway musicals, taught by Bill Messenger

Type

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Great American music, Broadway musicals, taught by Bill Messenger

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Guidebook includes bibliographical references (p. 154-161)

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Great American music

Oclc number

276426602

Responsibility statement

taught by Bill Messenger

Runtime

720

Series statement

The great courses. Music & fine arts

Sub title

Broadway musicals

Summary

This course covers the 200-year evolution of American music theater, including the minstrel era, the vaudeville era, the age of ragtime, the revue, and the book musical. Because recorded examples of music from recent Broadway musicals are readily available in retail stores, these are used less frequently here than the older, rarer recordings, without which most listeners would have little knowledge of the sound of the early musicals. The shows chosen to be discussed in this course are each important links in musical theater's evolution

Table Of Contents

Pt. 1. Disc 1. The essence of the musical ; The minstrel era (1828 to c. 1900) ; Evolution of the verse/chorus song ; The ragtime years (c.1890-1917) -- Disc 2. The vaudeville era (1881 to c. 1935) ; Tin Pan Alley ; Broadway in its infancy ; The revue versus the book musicalPt. 2. Disc 3. Superstars on the horizon ; Transition into the Jazz Age (1916-20) ; Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern : contrasts ; George Gershwin's legacy (1919 to c. 1935) -- Disc 4. Rodgers and Hammerstein era (1940s) ; Golden age of musical theater (1950s) ; Rock 'n' roll reaches Broadway (1960s) ; Big bucks and long runs (1970s-present)

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Broadway musicals

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