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Musical Stages is Richard Rodgers’ colorful autobiography and a great place to start in studying the composer’s life and career. It is full of backstage anecdotes, inside stories of successes from Oklahoma! to The Sound of Music, portraits of his contemporaries, comments on the art of composing and lyric writing, all exuding the charm of the man himself. Despite being written mainly for musical theater, dozens of Richard Rodgers’ songs have become jazz standards. With regard to musical analysis, The Richard Rodgers Reader by Geoffrey Block or Richard Rodgers by William G. Hyland are better choices. Musical Stages contains no table of contents but the general index includes song titles.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore
provides you with a catalog of over 120 books associated
with the jazz standards. Organized by category,
each entry has an editorial comment to aid you in
your research and guide you in your recreational
reading.
The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com
are listed at the right and the listing may be considered
the site bibliography.
The primary focus of these books is not always
the jazz standards per se, so each entry is annotated
indicating the book's relevance to the subject.
If there is a book you feel we have overlooked,
please let us know the title and how it supports
the research or recreational study of the jazz standards.
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