The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist av Rebecca (Urdang Academy UK) Applin Warner

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Dramaturgy is at the heart of any musical theatre score, proving that song and music combined can collectively act as drama. <i>The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist: A Handbook for Collaboration</i> offers techniques for approaching a musical with the <i>drama</i> at the centre of the music. Written by a working composer of British musical theatre, this original and highly practical book is intended for composers, students of musical theatre and performing arts and their collaborators. Through detailed case studies, conceptual frameworks and frank analysis, this book encourages the collaboration between the languages of music and drama. It offers a shared language for talking about music in the creation of musical theatre, as well as practical exercises for both composers and their collaborators and ways of analysing existing musical theatre scores for those who are versed in musical terminology, and those who are not.Speaking directly to the contemporary artist, working examples