Musical Theatre as a Viable Genre of Music
I’ve begun work on a topic of interest of mine regarding musical theatre. Here’s a quick overview of the paper.
Musicals have a very distinct style of writing. Each composer has a different way of going about writing the music. I’m interested in if there are any similarities between the composers. I will be looking at Rodgers and Hammerstein, Steven Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Jason Robert Brown and Steven Schwartz. I want to see if there is a typical harmonic trend in musical theatre and if there is I would like to figure out what it is and how it affects music.
That’s the basic idea of it…of course it will be better developed as I study it more but for right now its an idea.
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