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Author Zinsser, William, 1922-2015.

Title Easy to remember : the great American songwriters and their songs / William Zinsser.

Publication Info. Jaffrey, N.H. : David R. Godine, 2001.
©2000

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  782.42 ZIN    Storage
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  782.42 ZINSSER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  782.4216 ZINSSER    Check Shelf
Description 279 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and indexes.
Contents Introduction -- Sigmund Romberg and the Europeans -- Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein and "Show Boat" -- George and Ira Gershwin -- Early Rodgers & Hart -- Anatomy of the popular song : The verse ; The chorus ; The lyric -- Vincent Youmans -- DeSylva, Brown and Henderson -- Harold Arlen (and Ted Koehler) -- Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz -- Andy Razaf and the African connection -- Sheet music -- Cole Porter -- "Porgy and Bess" -- Writing for Fred Astair : Irving Berlin ; Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern ; George and Ira Gershwin -- Duke Ellington (and Billy Strayhorn) -- Hoagy Carmichael (and Mitchell Parish) -- Late Rodgers & Hart -- Harry Warren (and Al Dubin and Mack Gordon) -- E.Y. Harburg and "The wizard of Oz" -- The songs of World War II -- Johnny Mercer -- Made in Hollywood : "As time goes by" and "Laura" -- Kurt Weill (and Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke) -- Rodgers & Hammerstein -- Singers of the song -- Irving Berlin : the theater songs -- Jule Styne (and Sammy Cahn) -- Frank Loesser -- Betty Comden and Adolph Green -- Stephen Sondheim (and Leonard Bernstein) -- Jimmy Van Heusen (and Johnny Burke and Sammy Cahn) -- Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loew -- John Kander and Fred Ebb (and Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick) -- Songs by category.
Subject Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
ISBN 1567921477 hardcover alkaline paper
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