Item Detail
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Bloom, Ken
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American song : the complete musical theatre companion
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Book
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2nd ed.
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2 vols.
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New York, N.Y.
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c1996
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Schirmer Books
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2 v. (xiii, 2093 p.) ; 29 cm.
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English
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0028704843 (set); 0028645731 (v. 1); 0028645723 (v. 2)
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Musicals--United States--Bibliography.
Songs, English--United States--Indexes. -
Musicals; Musical Theater; United States
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ML 128 .M78 B56 1996
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Bloom, Ken. American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion, 2d ed, 2 vols. New York: Schirmer Books, and London: Prentice Hall International, 1996.
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A dictionary of artists, performers, composers, shows, and songs from the American Musical theater repertoire in standard dictionary format. Useful to historians, theater buffs, or the casual audience member.
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Data on over 4,800 American Musicals. Attempts to include all Broadway, off- Broadway, and off-off-Broadway productions 1877-1995. Also includes resident theater productions of shows by major artists, shows that closed out of town prior to Broadway, touring shows that never went to New York, selected night club shows, strait plays with original songs, Vaudeville and Burlesque shows, and English and French productions of shows by major American song writers.
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Part 1 arranged alphabetically by show title and includes opening dates, theaters where performed, genre, composer, lyricist, librettist, director, etc. Part 2 includes indexes of 70,000 songs, 27,000 personnel, and a chronological listing of titles.
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Clear and consistent typographical layout. Relatively current.
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No publishing information.
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Glazier, Ed. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 43 (December 1986): 301-3.http://www.jstor.org/stable/897379
Southern, Eileen. The Black Perspective in Music 13 (Spring 1985): 124-26.http://www.jstor.org/stable/1214800 -
BYU Mus Ref
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2749