| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-05-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 449 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 27.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
At long last Stubblebine, an avid sheet music collector, follows up his excellent Cinema Sheet Music (McFarland, 1991) with this counterpart on American theater music. Covering 75 years, the book lists thousands of individual published songs from 2562 Broadway shows by all variety of composers, great and small. Each cover design is described, and the original song publisher noted. Although Stubblebine provides no publishers' addresses, he does give the addresses of four national collecting groups. Concluding song title and lyricist/composer indexes are welcome and useful additions. This unique, inexpensive resource complements Ken Bloom's expansive American Song (Prentice-Hall, 1995. 2d ed.) and will find a place in both music and theater collections. Highly recommended for academic and public libraries. Anthony J. Adam, Prairie View A&M Univ., Tex.
Breitman
Stubblebine, also the author of Cinema Sheet Music (1991), provides a comprehensive listing of the published songs from every composer in all Broadway shows, 1918 through 1993. Each of the 2,562 entries include the show's title, year the show opened, a listing of all songs in the production with composers and lyricists, and the show's leading players. The sheet music cover is also described, along with a one-line synopsis of the show. A limited number of shows that closed before reaching Broadway are also included. Indexed by song and by composer/lyricist. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Reference & Research Book News (08/01/1996)
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