MTO 19.3 Examples: Callahan, Sentential Lyric-Types in the Great American Songbook
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Example 1. From Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, “You Took Advantage of Me.”
1 of 24 Figure 1. Corpus Distribution by Composer
2 of 24 Figure 2. Sentential Lyric-Types
3 of 24 Example 2. From George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.”
4 of 24 Example 3. From Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man.”
5 of 24 Example 4. From Cole Porter, “All of You.”
6 of 24 Example 5. From Cole Porter, “You’re the Top.”
7 of 24 Example 6. From Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?”
8 of 24 Example 7. From Cole Porter, “Blow, Gabriel, Blow.”
Example 8. From Jerome Kern and Anne Caldwell, “Ka-lu-a” (lyrics only).
9 of 24 Example 9. From Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Otto Harbach, “Sunny.”
10 of 24 Example 10. From George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “Delishious.”
11 of 24 Example 11. From Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “Something Wonderful.”
12 of 24 Example 12. From Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, “I Loved You Once in Silence.”
13 of 24 Example 13. From George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “Love Walked In” and “Nice Work if You Can Get It”; and George Gershwin and B. G. DeSylva, “Do It Again” (lyrics only).
14 of 24 Example 14. From George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “Nice Work if You Can Get It.”
15 of 24 Example 15. From Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, “I Dream Too Much.”
16 of 24 Example 16. From George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “Funny Face” (lyrics and music) and “But Not For Me” (lyrics only).
17 of 24 Example 17. From Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, “I Could Have Danced All Night.”
18 of 24 Example 18. From Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, “With a Little Bit of Luck.”
19 of 24 Example 19. Recomposed opening of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, “With a Little Bit of Luck.”
20 of 24 Example 20. From Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “I Have Dreamed” (measures 1 �16 only).
21 of 24 Example 21. From Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “I Have Dreamed.”
22 of 24 Example 22. Recomposed continuation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “I Have Dreamed.”
23 of 24 Example 23. From Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, “Isn’t it Romantic?”.
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