Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: The Lead Sheet
Unit 1: Basic Concepts for Reading, Writing, and Appreciating Music
Unit 2: Major and Minor Scales
Unit 3: Modes and Other Scales
Unit 4: Intervals

Part 2: The Arrangement
Unit 5: Triads, Seventh Chords, and Nonharmonic Tones
Unit 6: Chord Progressions and Sixth Chords
Unit 7: Singing Counterpoint 1
Unit 8: Singing Counterpoint 2
Unit 9: Chromatically Altered Chords
Unit 10: Song Form and Cadences
Unit 11: Modulation and Tonicization
Unit 12: Upper-Embellished Chords

Part 3: The Performance
Unit 13: Analysis -- George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers
Unit 14: Analysis -- Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Unit 15: Analysis -- Andrew Lloyd Webber, William Finn, and Jason Robert Brown

Acknowledgements
Alphabetical List of Musical Theatre Examples
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

John Franceschina began composing and arranging music at the age of five and has written symphonies, chamber music, incidental music, and film scores. He has acted as musical director for productions in New York City and on national and international tours and the stage director of operas, musicals, and plays. As a pianist/arranger, he has accompanied Angela Lansbury, Elke Sommer, Nell Carter, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Lotte Lenya, Paige O'Hara, Chita Rivera, and
Gwen Verdon. An educator with thirty years of college teaching experience, he has written fifteen books about the theatre and musical theatre.