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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Stephen Sondheim"”.
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An Introduction to the Works of Stephen Sondheim: An Adult Education Enrichment Course
… enrichment course introducing the works of Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930), the dominant composer/lyricist of American musical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. As such, it is divided into three sections. The first section is an overview of musical theatre in America, beginning …
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Transformations: A Folkloric Exploration of the Musical Comedy Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
… thesis is to examine the use of folktales in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 1987 award-winning musical Into the Woods. In doing so, I hope to accomplish several directives. First, to enrich understanding of the musical for all audience members, especially those with a folklore or theater …
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Graduate Recital, Voice
… Brahms, Franz Schubert, John Dowland as well as Stephen Sondheim. By focusing on Major languages and changing stylistic periods this recital fulfills the requirements of the Graduate Recital as dictated by Duquesne University.
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Motivic, rhythmic, and harmonic procedures of unification in Stephen Sondheim's Company and A little night music
… study was to examine the musical methods used by Stephen Sondheim to create a sense of internal unity in scores that, because of the nature of musical theater, required diverse styles of composition and often involved extended periods of time between the occurrence of musical selections. This …
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Stephen Sondheim's Gesamtkunstwerk: The Concept Musical As Wagnerian Total Theatre
Stephen Sondheim, famous for writing such musicals as Company, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and Assassins, is often referred to as the originator of the modern concept musical. Despite varying definitions of the concept musical, it is generally agreed that the form embodies a specific identity or …
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Harmony, voice leading, and drama in three Sondheim musicals
… by American musical theater composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim: Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins—each of which Sondheim developed largely at the Playwrights Horizons theater in New York. Using an eclectic, neo-Schenkerian approach that draws upon recent work by …
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"I've a Voice, I've a Voice": Determining Stephen Sondheim's Compositional Style Through a Music-theoretic Analysis of His Theater Works
… music-theoretic analysis of the musical style of Stephen Sondheim, as surveyed through his fourteen musicals that have appeared on Broadway. The analysis begins with dramatic concerns, where musico-dramatic intensity analysis graphs show the relationship between music and drama, and how one may …
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An analysis of the effectiveness of individual dramatic and musical elements in the 1956, 1973 and 1988 versions of Leonard Bernstein's Candide
Voltaire’s Candide is a classic in the realm of satire. The title character learns from his tutor, Dr. Pangloss, the philosophy that all is for the best in this world. That philosophy is tested when he is expelled from his home; and has to make his own way in the world. The story is one of love, …