Musicals! We all Love Them!

 
This month, the Library is exploring the world of musicals. We're also looking at vocal health and injury prevention - important for any singer!
 

Musical Theatre eResources

DIGITAL THEATRE PLUS has musical productions and interviews. Below is a sample of what you can watch.
 

 

 

 

 
This is by no means everything!  How about Practitioners on Practice, with Tarek Merchant, or A Musical Director's Perspective, with Tom Attwood?
 
Meanwhile, Drama Online has eBooks about Musical Theatre.  Try these:-

• British Musical Theatre since 1950 / Robert Gordon et al
• Broadway Swings: Covering the Ensemble in Musical Theatre / J Austin Eyer and Lyndy Franklin Smith
• The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen : Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen'by George Rodosthenous
• Musical Theatre, a History / John Kenrick

- you'll find all these by searching Catalogue Plus.  (Click the Catalogue Plus button before doing this search!)

 
Trouble accessing offsite? Try looking at our guides on the portal.
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Vocal Health & Injury Prevention eResources

Articles and book chapters available include these:-

•  Vocal Health and Singing Pedagogy: Considerations from Biology and Motor Learning
• Top 10 Exercises for Vocal Health
• Promoting Vocal Health in the Choral Rehearsal
• Teaching healthy musicianship: the music educator's guide to injury prevention and wellness
• PLAYING Healthy STAYING Healthy: What Every Musician Needs To Know

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Try these e-books, too!

 

 

 

 
 
 

Colour and Sound combine in the Red Poppy Ladies Percussion Group

We've just been sent a poster promoting concerts in Inverness (28th February), Edinburgh (1st March) and Glasgow (3rd March).  The Red Poppy Ladies Percussion Group presents ....
 

... Mulan, the Musical.

 

• Find out more about the concerts (Eden Court - Queen's Hall - Glasgow City Halls)
• Find out more about the group HERE

Libretto! An app for reading musicals on e-book readers

Developed by New York Public Library, this app looks well-worth investigating.  One for our Musical Theatre students, maybe. 

LIBRETTO! press release about prototype

Google Play Android apps link

Practice-based Research in Musical Theatre - CFP

Central School of Speech and Drama

 
CALL FOR PAPERS

(Submission of abstracts – extended deadline – 26 November 2012)

• Title:  ‘Practice-based Research in Musical Theatre: Process and Performance’
• Special Issue of Studies in Musical Theatre (January 2014), guest edited by Zachary Dunbar
• Proposal Deadline for Abstracts: 26 November 2012
• We encourage the submission of abstracts of 300 words or (preferred) articles of 4000-6000 words for issue 8.1, to be published in January 2014.   The deadline for submission of abstracts or articles is 26 November 2012, with a view to full drafts being completed by 15 April 2013. Material should be submitted directly to Zachary Dunbar at zachary.dunbar@cssd.ac.uk.

"Current scholarly research and publications in musical theatre studies predominantly fall into three categories: historiography, musicology and applications of postmodern theory. This issue proposes to kick start a discourse in practice-based research."