Music: An Appreciation, 10th Edition (Kamien)

American Musical Theater Reference Library

http://www.americanmusicals.com/

A web resource dedicated to providing information on historic and contemporary aspects of American Musical Theater. It includes links to productions, performers, directors, organizations and much more.

American Theatre: Musicals

http://www.theatrehistory.com/american/musicals.html

This site includes synopses of major American musicals and a historical overview of American Musical Theatre.

American Sheet Music

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html

A fantastic resource of classic American Music, from the American Memory series at the Library of Congress. Site provides access to 47,000 diverse pieces of American sheet music registered for publication in the 1800s. Pages of each publication have been scanned, and can be viewed and printed from the screen.

Using the websites provided above, answer the following questions.

1			Describe the origins of American Musical Theater.
2			Describe the stylistic and structural elements of the Musical.
3			In what way was Show Boat revolutionary?