Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater

Contents

• List of Examples and Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker
• Part 1: Chapters that engage multiple works
• Chapter 1. "Was It Ever Real?": Tonic Return via Stepwise Modulation in Broadway Songs
• Nathan Beary Blustein (American University)
• Chapter 2. Sondheim's Dissonant Tonality
• Drew Nobile (University of Oregon)
• Chapter 3. Topical Interpretive Strategies in American Musical Theatre: Three Brief Case Studies
• Gregory J. Decker (Bowling Green State University)
• Chapter 4. A Phenomenological Approach to Music Theater Rhyme
• Richard Plotkin (New York, NY)
• Chapter 5. The Changing Rhythms of Bridges and Ends
• Rachel Short (Shenandoah Conservatory)
• Part 2: Chapters that engage a single work, organized chronologically
• Chapter 6. Three Notions of Long-Range Form in Guys and Dolls
• Michael Buchler (Florida State University)
• Chapter 7. Style, Tonality, and Sexuality in The Rocky Horror Show
• Nicole Biamonte (McGill University)
• Chapter 8. Music, Time, and Memory in Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years
• Jonathan De Souza (University of Western Ontario)
• Chapter 9. Lesbian Desire in Fun Home
• Rachel Lumsden (Florida State University)
• Chapter 10. The Hip-Hop History of Hamilton
• Robert Komaniecki (University of Iowa)
• Chapter 11. "Isn't it queer?": The Kinsey Sicks and the Art of Broadway Parody
• J. Daniel Jenkins (University of South Carolina)
• List of Contributors
• Index