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MTO 19.3 Examples: Callahan, Sentential Lyric-Types in the Great American Songbook
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Example 1. From Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, “You Took Advantage of Me.”
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Figure 1. Corpus Distribution by Composer
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Figure 2. Sentential Lyric-Types
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Example 2. From George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.”
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Example 3. From Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man.”
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Example 4. From Cole Porter, “All of You.”
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Example 5. From Cole Porter, “You’re the Top.”
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Example 6. From Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?”
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Example 7. From Cole Porter, “Blow, Gabriel, Blow.”
Example 8. From Jerome Kern and Anne Caldwell, “Ka-lu-a” (lyrics only).
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Example 9. From Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Otto Harbach, “Sunny.”
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Example 10. From George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “Delishious.”
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Example 11. From Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “Something Wonderful.”
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Example 12. From Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, “I Loved You Once in Silence.”
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Example 13. From George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “Love Walked In” and “Nice Work if You Can Get It”; and George
Gershwin and B. G. DeSylva, “Do It Again” (lyrics only).
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Example 14. From George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “Nice Work if You Can Get It.”
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Example 15. From Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, “I Dream Too Much.”
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Example 16. From George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “Funny Face” (lyrics and music) and “But Not For Me” (lyrics only).
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Example 17. From Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, “I Could Have Danced All Night.”
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Example 18. From Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, “With a Little Bit of Luck.”
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Example 19. Recomposed opening of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, “With a Little Bit of Luck.”
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Example 20. From Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “I Have Dreamed” (measures 1�16 only).
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Example 21. From Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “I Have Dreamed.”
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Example 22. Recomposed continuation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, “I Have Dreamed.”
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Example 23. From Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, “Isn’t it Romantic?”.
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