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In this graduate-level music theory seminar, students will acquire and apply the analytical techniques necessary to understand the broad musical language of the 20th-century American stage, from Tin Pan Alley to the Met. Stage works composed by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Gian Carlo Menotti, Vernon Duke, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, John Adams, Alan Menken, and several others will be examined using a variety of methods including an expanded approach to functional harmonic analysis (including tritone substitutions and extended tertian sonorities), post-tonal techniques, motivic analysis, structural analysis, and textual analysis.