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The world of musical comedy; the story of the American musical stage as told through the careers of its foremost composers and lyricists.

Title
The world of musical comedy; the story of the American musical stage as told through the careers of its foremost composers and lyricists. Foreword by Deems Taylor.
Author
Green, Stanley.
Publication
South Brunswick, A.S. Barnes [©1974]

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Description
xvi, 556 pages illustrations; 26 cm
Subject
  • Musicals > United States > History and criticism
  • Composers > United States
  • Librettists > United States
  • Composers
  • Librettists
  • Musicals
  • Composers > United States > 20th century
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Musicals.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Comédies musicales.
Bibliography (note)
  • Lists of records.-Includes index.
Contents
1. Prologue -- 2. Victor Herbert -- 3. George M. Cohan -- 4. Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach -- 5. Sigmund Romberg -- 6. Jerome Kern -- 7. Irving Berlin -- 8. George and Ira Gershwin -- 9. Vincent Youmans -- 10. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart -- 11. B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson -- 12. Cole Porter -- 13. Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, Dorothy Fields -- 14. E.Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen, Burton Lane -- 15. Harold Rome -- 16. Kurt Weill -- 17. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- 18. Leonard Bernstein -- 19. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe -- 20. Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green -- 21. Frank Loesser, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Meredith Willson -- 22. Bob Merrill, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt -- 23. Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh, Jerry Herman, Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion, John Kander and Fred Ebb.
ISBN
  • 0498014096
  • 9780498014093
LCCN
73005777
OCLC
  • ocm00990203
  • 990203
  • SCSB-14513608
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library