| Description |
xvi, 392 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-385) and index. |
| Contents |
Music direction today and yesterday. What a music director does ; Historical survey of music direction ; Technology and the shrinking orchestra ; Looking to the future -- Musical stage production. Songs, musicals, and opera ; A (very) brief history of music for the stage ; Production in the twenty-first century -- Job opportunities for music directors. Broadway and Off-Broadway ; National tours ; Regional (local), repertory, and stock theater ; Nightclubs, cabarets, and concerts ; Revues, special events, and industrials ; Academic theaters and events ; Amateur and community performances and talent shows ; Workshops and developmental productions -- The production team. Producers ; Stage managers ; General managers, company managers, house managers, and production managers -- The creative team. Composers and lyricists ; Directors ; Choreographers ; Designers and technicians -- The music team. Conductors, associates, and assistants ; Contractors and music coordinators ; Orchestrators and copyists ; Vocal and dance arrangers ; Synthesizer programmers ; The orchestra -- The performers. Singers and dancers ; Singers and actors ; Star performers and nontraditional casting ; Casting directors -- Mounting a production. Meetings and agendas, planning and scheduling ; Casting ; Determining the orchestration : three scenarios (Scenario 1: voice and piano, or maybe more; Scenario 2: small ensembles; Scenario 3: orchestra reductions) -- The music : assessment and analysis. Learning and practicing scores ; Preparing scores for rehearsal ; Transcribing ; Practical analysis for music direction -- Arranging for music directors. Starting an arrangement : approaches and rightness ; Technical fundamentals of arranging (Distribution, registration, and voicing; Dynamics and articulation; Key; Feel and style; Tempo; Structure; Notating arrangements) ; Arranging for voices ; Arranging for movement -- Overview of rehearsal process -- Individual vocal rehearsals. Coaching singers (Rehearsal process and conduct; Background, analysis, and style; Key; Tempo; Vocal technique; Accompanying and the accompaniment) ; Text and singing ; Acting and singing -- Ensemble vocal rehearsals. Ensemble rehearsal process ; Choral techniques for the stage (Dynamics and articulation; Breathing and phrasing; Vocal production and technique; Intonation; Text and diction; Acting and characterization; Movement; Choral conducting for the stage -- Rehearsals with directors and choreographers. Staging and dramatic rehearsals ; Movement and dance rehearsals -- Adapting music to the production. Cueing ; Underscoring, transitions, and incidental music ; Overtures, bows, and exit music -- Orchestras and orchestrations. Organizing the musicians ; The orchestra : sections and setup (Rhythm sections : keyboards, drums, bass, and guitar; Woodwinds and brass; Strings) ; Orchestration : notation and parts -- Instrumental conducting for the stage. Rehearsal process ; Conducting styles ; Visibility and the "field" ; Baton, head, and hands ; Conducting techniques (Meter, beat patterns, and subdivisions; Preparatory beats and cutoffs; Rests and holds; Safeties and vamps; Free tempo, recitative, and following singers; Tempo and tempo changes; Feels, grooves, and syncopations; Dynamics and articulations; Cueing and the stage) -- From the studio to the stage. Run-throughs, dress rehearsals, and the Sitzprobe ; Load-ins, seatings, and sound checks ; The podium ; Technical rehearsals, previews, and brush-ups ; Giving and receiving notes -- Conducting in performance. The pre-show routine ; Showtime ; Repeated performances : variations on a theme ; When things go wrong -- Maintaining a production and preserving a show. A day in the life ; Keeping the performance fresh ; Rehearsing after opening ; Subbing in the orchestra ; Subbing on the podium ; Disputes ; Original cast and other recordings ; Repeatability and the rehearsal score -- Working as a music director. Starting out ; Career philosophy ; Maintaining a career ; How to get a gig -- Appendix A. Putting it together. In the Heights #1 : "In the Heights" ; The Lion King #1 : "Circle of life" -- Appendix B. Bibliography, suggested reading, and list of musical works cited. |
| Language |
English text. |
| Subject |
Musicals -- Production and direction.
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Musicals -- Production and direction. |
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Musicals. |
| ISBN |
9780199993406 (alkaline paper) |
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9780199993413 (alkaline paper) |
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0199993416 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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0199993408 (hardback alkaline paper) |
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