Mattie H. Long
Text Books
Reimer, Bennett, Hoffman, Mary and McNeil, Albert,
Music
(Morristown, N.J.: Silver Burdett Company, 1982).
The field hollers and street cries are found in the Satellite,
Afro-American Music and its Roots
, Grade 7. The Salellite,
Spanish
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American Music and its Roots
, Grade 8, contains articles on many different styles of Spanish music. Both satellites have accompanying recorded illustrations.
Recordings of Musicals
American Musical Theater
(Chicago: Time-Life Books, 1982).
A series of boxed sets of selected musicals. Each box contains three musicals, with an illustrated booklet, and cassettes or records for each of the musicals.
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnic,
Fiddler on the Roof
, RCA LSD 1093, Stereo.
The original Broadway cast recording.
Frank Loesser,
Guys and Dolls
, MCA Records 37094.
The original Broadway cast recording of highlights.
Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Lowe,
My Fair Lady
, Columbia Masterworks, PS 2015
The original Broadway cast recording.
George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward,
Porgy and Bess
, MCA 37098.
Recording of highlights by the original cast, 1935 production.
Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Leonard Berstein,
West Side Story
, Columbia Masterworks OS 2070.
The original sound track recording of the film.
Other Recordings
Prokofiev, Serge,
Romeo and Juliet
, Suite 1, No. 6.
From Music, Grade 8 (Morristown, N.J.: Silver Burdett Company, 1982).
Tchaikovky, Peter,
Romeo and Juliet
: Overture, Sun Times Concert Library of Recorded Masterpieces, LRM 108 (Mono).
Filmstrips
The American Musical Theater, (Chicago, Ill.: Gamble Music Company).
An excellent chronicle of musical theater developments from the early 1800’s to 1960’s. All of the visual materials is contemporary to the theater of the time being discussed. The music is, whenever possible, taken from original recordings. Contains 4 filmstrips and 4 cassettes.
