Don't live in Los Angeles? You can still be part of our Writers' Workshop with our online courses in lyric writing, book writing, outlining and many more. email us at academy@anmt.org and ask us how to get involved from anywhere in the world!
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Preparing a professional piano-vocal score; how is a musical theatre score different from standard sheet music, or an opera score, or a lead sheet? How to handle cues? Incidental music? Study swing notation. Vocal ranges. An invaluable course of study for the serious musical theatre composer. Taught online by Columbia College professor Philip Seward. Visit www.writingmusicaltheatre.com to enroll.
In the Outlining Lab, you will be lead step-by-step through the process of developing a musical idea from concept through to a working outline, with detailed constructive feedback along the way from your evaluator. By the end of this ten-unit online course, you should have a well-developed and detailed outline that will solidly prepare you for the collaborative task of writing your new musical. Visit www.writingmusicaltheatre.com to enroll.
Studies in 'Finishing the Hat' is an ambitious series of online video lectures, one on each and every lyric in Sondheim's masterful book. In this series, we put Sondheim's lyrics on the screen and analyze rhyme, structure, character diction, vocabulary, progressions and other lyrical tricks of the trade, as well as studying each of Sondheim's own footnotes. Click here to enroll or view a sample video.
ANMT's internet channel devoted to musicals written for the web. Home of 'Guerrilla Musicals' and '15 Second Musicals'. Also interviews, documentaries, and links to national and international musical theatre online shorts.
Are you a musical theatre performer who would like to get involved in the development of new musicals? Then the Talent Bank is a place for you to enter your resume information and upload a picture so that you can join our community of performers. ANMT writers often use the Talent Bank as a casting resource, and it is quickly becoming a resource for other musical theatre developers.
A self-contained unit focuses on metaphor and simile in musical theatre lyrics, and continues with advanced metaphorical concepts such as synecdoche, allegory, metonymy, periphrasis, apostrophe, mixed metaphor and parable. Currently offered as part of the Online Advanced Lyric Lab, this unit is offered as a stand-alone for the very first time. Because it's online, you can write at home, or wherever you have a workstation.
The foundation of lyric writing: Prosody, or matching the stresses of music with stresses in the lyric. Topics include Bad Prosody, Repairing Prosody, Linear Prosody, Euphony, and Poetic Meter versus Spoken and Musical Meter. Currently offered as part of the Online Advanced Lyric Lab, this unit is offered as a stand-alone for the very first time. Because it's online, you can write at home, or wherever you have a workstation.
The Advanced Lyric Lab is offered online only for graduates of the Lyric Lab, and covers additional topics such as Character Through Diction, Linear Prosody, Conversational Prosody, Additional Progressions, Metaphor, Simile, List Songs and Twist Songs. It concludes with a powerful unit on Metaphor and Simile in musical theatre lyrics, and continues with advanced metaphorical concepts such as synecdoche, allegory, metonymy, periphrasis, apostrophe, mixed metaphor and parable.
A comprehensive study of the Verse, the Chorus and the Refrain, and how they're used in musical theatre. Trace each structure historically, examine them in contemporary literature, and write your own examples of each. Currently offered as part of the Online Lyric Lab, this unit is offered as a stand-alone for the very first time. Because it's online, you can write at home, or wherever you have a workstation.
Want to write an online musical? Check out the guerrilla musicals on www.anmt.tv -- spontaneous musicals bursting out in unexpected places. Write a guerrilla musical and send it to us for posting!
