The sound of Broadway music : a book of orchestrators and orchestrations / / Steven Suskin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825134703321
• Autore: Suskin Steven
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-19-026838-7; 0-19-983107-6; 1-282-05356-6; 9786612053566; 0-19-971882-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (672 pages)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online.
• Disciplina: 782.141374097471
• Soggetti: Instrumentation and orchestration - History; Orchestrators; Musicals - New York (State) - New York - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2009.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick, etc. are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. This 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.