Foreign Musical Solo Tutorial (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Guo Peng, Zhang Xu (editors)
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: With over a century of historical development, musical theater has captivated audiences of different skin colors and nationalities with its unique charm. As one of the vocal textbooks for the Musical Theater Department of Beijing Dance Academy, this "Foreign Musical Theater Solo Song Tutorial" provides students who study and love musical theater with a broader range of song choices, maximizing the expansion of their artistic horizons. This textbook is divided into two volumes in chronological order of the works' creation, selecting and compiling a total of 102 solo songs. To help singers better understand and master these works, we have added plot summaries for 42 musicals in the book and annotations and explanations for the emotional expressions of each song in its dramatic context. Through the performance of these works, students will gain a deeper understanding of foreign musical theater pieces and receive inspiration and improvement in grasping the artistic style, musical connotations, diction, and vocal techniques of the works.