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Changes And Developments In The Use Of Tonality In Musicals From Showboat To Sondheim Tonality, although a simple fundamental aspect in all pieces of music, can have considerable influence on music in numerous ways. Major tonality can be used to convey a mood of happiness. Minor tonality can be well used for setting a melancholy tone. Atonal or chromatic music conveys moods of extremity, such as tension and chaos. In the world of musical theatre, these moods are an essential part of the music to really enhance the book in a way that cannot be matched by words alone. The use of tonality, though, like many other aspects of musical theatre has developed and matured greatly over time to become a mightily useful tool in the creation of musical theatre mastery. This is most obvious in the works of Jerome Kern, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. Jerome Kern's Showboat is the masterpiece...

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