Award-winning musical dramatist and teacher David Spencer provides a guide-to-the-game that helps you negotiate aspects of the musical theatre business and more.

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History 'Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here' Evening Standard 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. 66 million years ago came the first melody. 40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument. Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet it is an overlooked part of our origin story. The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages – from Bach to BTS and back – to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, from global history to our everyday lives, from insects to apes, humans to artificial intelligence. 'Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music' Daniel Levitin 'A thrilling exploration of what music has meant and means to humankind' Ian Bostridge

Excerpt from The Musical Review and Musical World, 1861, Vol. 12: A Journal of Secular and Sacred Music On the second floor there is in the center the assembly or study room of the Normal department, capable of containing with ample room, more than 200 desks, and from it, entrance to six recitation rooms adapted to the various departments of their work. On the third floor are the large Hall or Chapel, Society rooms, Cabinet, Museum, and, I believe, the Library. It will be re membered that all these rooms are very spacious, and perfectly appointed, and the whole building heated by steam. Some idea may be had of the magnitude of the enterprise when it is stated that the costof the building and appoint ments, exclusive of land, was over one hundred and forty thousand dollars The people at the east must look to their laurels; at this rate Illinois will stride away from them in facilities for education as fast as she has gone ahead in building cities and raising wheat. I was at the Institution for a few days to give some instruction in singing, and teaching singing, and enjoyed it well, although every night found me ready to rest, for Western men, if they don't brush their boots, keep the cobwebs out of their eyes and minds, and he who expects to influence them must know what he has to do, and must be able to do it well. Let no teacher of music (and I may add of any thing clse)go tothe west to teach because he cannot succeed at home. In my opinion, he will meet with disappointment if he does. Mr. Hovey, the prime mover in getting up this Institution, and the present Principal, is a man of extraordinary abilities, and the associate pro fessors are all men of high standing in their various departments. I cannot see why the Normal University of the State of Illinois should not in a short time be in the very foremost rank. G. F. R. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

(Vocal Selections). Six has received rave reviews around the world for its modern take on the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII and it's finally opening on Broadway! From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of 21st century girl power! Songs include: All You Wanna Do * Don't Lose Ur Head * Ex-Wives * Get Down * Haus of Holbein * Heart of Stone * I Don't Need Your Love * No Way * Six.

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(Vocal Selections). "This show has guts!" proclaimed Richard Zoglin of Time magazine about this 2012 revival, which won the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical Revival. It features music by Michael Gore, lyrics by Dean Pitchford, and book by Lawrence D. Cohen (based on the novel by Stephen King). Our folio features vocal selections for 18 songs from that revival, including: Alma Mater * And Eve Was Weak * Carrie * Carrie (Reprise) * Do Me a Favor * Dreamer in Disguise * Epilogue * Evening Prayers * I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance * In * A Night We'll Never Forget * Once You See * Open Your Heart * Unsuspecting Hearts * When There's No One * Why Not Me? * The World According to Chris * You Shine.