University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Masters Theses Dissertations and Theses August 2014 From Rage (and Love) to Stage: Musical Reinforcement of Narrative Themes in the Stage Musical American Idiot James M. Delorey University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2 Recommended Citation Delorey, James M., "From Rage (and Love) to Stage: Musical Reinforcement of Narrative Themes in the Stage Musical American Idiot" (2014). Masters Theses. 10. https://doi.org/10.7275/5448034 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/10 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. From Rage (and Love) to Stage: Musical Reinforcement of Narrative Themes in the Stage Musical American Idiot A Thesis Presented by JAMES M. DELOREY Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF MUSIC May 2014 Music Music History From Rage (and Love) to Stage: Musical Reinforcement of Narrative Themes in the Stage Musical American Idiot A Thesis Presented by JAMES M. DELOREY Approved as to style and content by: _______________________________________ Mitchell Morris, Chair _______________________________________ Erinn Knyt, Member ________________________________________ Ernest May, Member ____________________________________ Jeff Cox, Chair Department of Music and Dance ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The idea to write about American Idiot originally came from a music theory class with Rob Schultz in 2013.