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Geoffrey Block

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Average rating: 3.83 · 76 ratings · 5 reviews · 17 distinct works
Enchanted Evenings: The Bro...

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The Richard Rodgers Reader

4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions
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Ives: Concord Sonata: Piano...

3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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Charles Ives and the Classi...

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Guide to the Season Plays 2...

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Richard Rodgers (Yale Broad...

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Experiencing Beethoven: A L...

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Charles Ives: A Bio-Bibliog...

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“The former are given musical characteristics loosely associated with music of the Italian Renaissance. Bianca and her suitors are given an a cappella pseudo-madrigal in “Tom, Dick or Harry,” the bluesy “Why Can’t You Behave?” is transformed into a Renaissance dance (the pavane), and several of the Shrew songs display the long-short-short figure () characteristic of the sixteenth-century Italian canzona”
Geoffrey Block, Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber

“Although the degree to which Kiss Me, Kate employs the major-minor juxtapositions is perhaps unprecedented in a Porter show, the roots of this idea can be found in Porter’s pre–Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Anything Goes (and many other songs;”
Geoffrey Block, Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber

“the extant manuscript evidence reveals that from the time he began work on Kiss Me, Kate Porter was greatly concerned with creating a musical that integrated music with the book.”
Geoffrey Block, Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber



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