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In the 1920s, a new genre of modern music theatre emerged on New York’s Broadway, combining various popular forms, consisting of songs, dialog, drama, dance and music: the musical.
The true origins of the musical however, go back much, much further. Traces can be seen in opéra comique, Komödie, operetta, revue and vaudeville. The first “classic” musicals followed a very traditional, classical style and form, like “Lady, Be Good” (1924) by George Gershwin, and “Show Boat” (1927) by Jerome Kern, and Cole Porter (“Anything Goes” 1934,“ Kiss Me, Kate” 1948, “Can-Can 1953) and Irving Berlin (“Annie Get Your Gun” 1946) were among the first generation of musical composers. The next wave of musical composers included Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein (“Oklahoma! ” 1943,“ Carousel” 1945, “The Sound of Music” 1959), as well as Frederick Loewe (“My Fair Lady” 1956) and Jerry Herman (“Hello Dolly!” 1964, “La Cage aux Folles” 1983).
With “West Side Story” (1957) by Leonard Bernstein, and the subsequent film in 1961, musicals became more and more popular, and the musical “Grease” (1971) by Warren Casey & Jim Jacobs was also adapted into a huge blockbuster film in 1978.
Among the many different styles of musicals, Galt McDermot’s “Hair” (1967) and Richard O’Brien’s “Rocky Horror Show” (1973) were highly successful rock musicals.
Moving into the modern era of musicals, Andrew Lloyd Webber (“Jesus Christ Superstar” 1971,“ Evita” 1978, “Cats” 1980,“ The Phantom of the Opera” 1986 ) is considered one of the most influential composers to this day. Modern musicals are now often through composed, like operas, the spoken dialogue largely disappears, and characters sing throughout. Moving into the 1980s, musicals by Claude-Michel Schönberg (“Les Misérables” 1980,“ Miss Saigon”1989) and by Stephen Sondheim (“Sweeney Todd” 1979,“ Sunday in the Park with George” 1983, “Into the Woods” 1986) were extremely popular.
At the end of the 1990s, ’tribute musicals’ became increasingly popular, which showcase songs by a particular artist or band, and weave the story and drama around the music. A few good examples include “Saturday Night Fever” 1998 (Bee Gees), “Mamma Mia!” 1999 (ABBA), and “We Will Rock You” 2002 (Queen).
The 2010s were shaped by huge hits like “The Book of Mormon” (2011) by Robert Lopez, Disney’s “Frozen” (2013), and the straight to film musical “La la Land” (2016) by Justin Hurwitz.
for solo voice (instrument) and concert band
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 649941
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices); drums ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 634098
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 576581
for: Trumpet
Item no.: 147906
for: Flexible ensemble
CD
Item no.: 604993
for: Flexible Septet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1113103
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1112735
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 630741
23 Disney Favorites for two Alto Saxophones
Easy Instrumental Duets
for: 2 alto saxophones (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 682571
for: Voice, piano [guitar/keyboard]
Songbook
Item no.: 565263
Nine Songs from the movie for Cello
Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along
for: Cello
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 678547
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Audio-CD
Item no.: 684522
for: Children's choir, piano
Score, CD
Item no.: 1705619
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score
Item no.: 809644
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 802868
Familiar melodies from the outstanding Broadway musical
Discovery Plus Band Series – A Series for Developing Bands
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 673417
Hal Leonard Flex-Band Series
for brass, woodwind or strings / includes percussion
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices); drums ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 655153
for: Trumpet
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 691997
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 154288
for: Kinderchor, Flöte, Klarinette, Violine, Cello, Klavier (Keyboard)
Partitur, Klavierauszug vokal
Item no.: 141945
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 421359
Bb
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049200
12 Famous Melodies from the Stage
With online audio of piano accompaniments
for: Violin; piano ad lib.
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback) (anthology)
Item no.: 696978
Nine songs from the successful musical film for viola solo
Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along
for: Viola
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 678558
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 172604
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 630624
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 471608
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 634428
20 songs carefully arranged for easy classical guitar in standard notation and tablature
for: Classical guitar
Songbook (with guitar Tabs – without standard notation)
Item no.: 631615
for: Trombone
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 621219
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 462415
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 176631
for: Piano
Item no.: 372416
for: für Gesang und Klavier
Item no.: 124516
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 632817
for: Flexible ensemble (5 parts), piano (school orchestra)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 347356
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 328696
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 694466
for: Piano
Songbook
Item no.: 659269
for: für Tenor, Bariton, Männerchor (oder drei Männerstimmen) und Blasorchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124520
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124454
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 156733
aus dem Musical "West-Side-Story"
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 271920
for: Voice, euphonium, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588594
Spectacle musical éducatif
for: Voice
Music score, CD
Item no.: 834321
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 579238
for: Cello
Item no.: 296772
D
for: Guitar
Classical Guitar Score
Item no.: 1638791
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