The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations

by Steven Suskin

Book Overview

Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199790841
• ISBN13: 9780199790845
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"