Structural coherence

Huebner, Steven

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“…works cited Atkinson, Brooks. 1950 Lawton (1982), Stephen Huebner (2004), Edward Latham (2008), and David Easley (2020. In musicals, the association of characters with particular keys or harmonic patterns has been explored by Trudi Wright (2020), Nathan Blustein (this volume), and Michael Buchler (this volume), and the association of characters with particular musical styles has been considered by Paul Laird (2011), Nina Penner (2020), and Elizabeth Sallinger (2016.…”

Section: Duets As Formal Markersmentioning

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Here for the Hearing

2023

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This book offers a series of essays that show the integrated role that musical structure (including harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, form, and musical association) plays in making sense of what transpires onstage in musicals. Written by a group of music analysts who care deeply about musical theater, this collection provides new understanding of how musicals are put together, how composers and lyricists structure words and music to complement one another, and how music helps us understand the human relationships and historical and social contexts. Using a wide range of musical examples, representing the history of musical theater from the 1920s to the present day, the book explores how music interacts with dramatic elements within individual shows and other pieces within and outside of the genre. These essays invite readers to consider issues that are fundamental both to our understanding of musical theater and to the multiple ways we engage with music.

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The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859

Rothstein

2022

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Opera comprises words, action, and music, but music is central. This book examines operatic music by five Italian composers—Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante, Donizetti, and Verdi—and one non-Italian, Meyerbeer, during the period from Rossini’s first international successes to Italian unification. Detailed analyses of form, rhythm, melody, and harmony reveal concepts of musical structure different from those usually discussed by music theorists, calling into question the notion of a common practice. An eclectic analytical approach is taken, using ideas originating in several centuries, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first. Music is analyzed at the level of the movement, the operatic number, the act, and the opera. Although no single theory accounts for all of the music examined, certain recurring principles define a distinctively Italian practice, one that left its mark on the German repertoire more familiar to music theorists.

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The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859

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