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Music fundamentals for musical theatre / Christine Riley.

By: Riley, Christine (Music director) [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2020Description: 304 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350001756 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Acting in musical theater | Musical theater -- Instruction and study | Singing | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 792.6'028 Summary: Musical theatre students and performers are frequently asked to learn musical material in a short space of time; sight-read pieces in auditions; collaborate with accompanists; and communicate musically with peers, directors, music directors and choreographers. Many of these students and performers will have had no formal musical training. This book offers a series of lessons in music fundamentals, including theory, sight-singing and aural tests, giving readers the necessary skills to navigate music and all that is demanded of them, without having had a formal music training. It focuses on the skills required of the musical theatre performer and draws on musical theatre repertoire in order to connect theory with practice.
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Musical theatre students and performers are frequently asked to learn musical material in a short space of time; sight-read pieces in auditions; collaborate with accompanists; and communicate musically with peers, directors, music directors and choreographers. Many of these students and performers will have had no formal musical training. This book offers a series of lessons in music fundamentals, including theory, sight-singing and aural tests, giving readers the necessary skills to navigate music and all that is demanded of them, without having had a formal music training. It focuses on the skills required of the musical theatre performer and draws on musical theatre repertoire in order to connect theory with practice.

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