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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 having been written mainly for musical theater, dozens of 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 200 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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