Musical Theater

"Part I The Antecedents to the Genre of ""Musical Theater"" 1 The Birth of ""Staged"" Music 2 Developing Genres in the Eighteenth Century: Ballad Opera and Singspiel 3 Developing Genres in the Eighteenth Century: Opera Buffa and Dramma Giocoso 4 The Musical Stage in the American Colonies Part II The Musical Stage in the Nineteenth Century 5 France and Spain in the Nineteenth Century 6 The Serious and the Not-so-Serious: Germany, Italy, and Austria in the Nineteenth Century 7 England in the Nineteenth Century: Gilbert and Sullivan 8 The United States in the Early Nineteenth Century 9 New American Genres of the Later Nineteenth Century 10 Operetta in America, 1880–1903 Part III Diverging Paths in the Twentieth Century 11 The Continuing Dominance of Operetta 12 Challenges to Operetta 13 The Princess Shows 14 Increasing Drama on the Stage 15 Musical Theater of the Lighter Kind Part IV Beginnings of a Golden Age: Synthesis of Style and Substance 16 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: Kern and Hammerstein 17 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: Rodgers and Hart 18 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: The Gershwins (1) 19 Great Partnerships of the Early Book Musical: The Gershwins (2) 20 Great Solo Acts: Irving Berlin 21 Great Solo Acts: Cole Porter and Other Efforts in the 1930s Part V A Greater Maturity 22 New Achievements from Familiar Names: Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin 23 A Cole Porter Renaissance and the Rise of Recognition 24 Politics and Social Commentary Part VI New Partnerships 25 Rodgers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma! 26 Rodgers and Hammerstein: Carousel and South Pacific 27 Rodgers and Hammerstein: The King and I and The Sound of Music 28 Lerner and Loewe Part VII New Faces of the 1940s and 1950s 29 Leonard Bernstein 30 Jule Styne and Frank Loesser 31 Meredith Willson and Other Faces of the 1950s Part VIII New Faces of the 1960s and 1970s 32 New Names in Lights in the 1960s 33 Sondheim in the 1960s: Flash in the Pan? 34 New Partnerships: Bock and Harnick 35 New Partnerships: Kander and Ebb 36 New Partnerships: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice 37 Wunderkinder of the 1970s 38 Sondheim in the 1970s: The Endless Experiments Part IX The Late Twentieth Century—and Beyond 39 Andrew Lloyd Webber Without Tim Rice: Cats and Starlight Express 40 The Luxuriant Lloyd Webber 41 The New Team in Town: Schönberg and Boublil 42 New Names, New Teams in the 1980s 43 Stephen Sondheim: Never a Formula 44 A Surge of ""Soloists"" 45 Team Efforts—The 1990s and Beyond 46 Whither Musical Theater?"