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Abstract
A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatre explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. In addition to insightful essays by a stellar group of international contributors, this volume also includes interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | FC | ||
| Half-title | 1 | ||
| Title | 3 | ||
| Copyright | 4 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 7 | ||
| Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context | 9 | ||
| PART I: History and Methodology | 15 | ||
| Chapter 1: Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field | 17 | ||
| Chapter 2: Composition and Theatre | 53 | ||
| Chapter 3: 'Happy New Ears': Creating Hearing and the Hearable | 81 | ||
| PART II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections | 109 | ||
| Chapter 4: 'It's all part of one concern': A 'Keynote' to Composition as Staging | 111 | ||
| Chapter 5: 'Theatre in small quantities': On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects | 121 | ||
| Chapter 6: ... To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State ... | 133 | ||
| Chapter 7: From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge | 155 | ||
| Chapter 8: 'Let's stop talking about it and just do it!': Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process | 169 | ||
| Chapter 9: Hearing Voices – Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media | 183 | ||
| Chapter 10: Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance | 201 | ||
| PART III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses | 221 | ||
| Chapter 11: 'Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique': The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis | 223 | ||
| Chapter 12: Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann's Theatre Work(s) | 243 | ||
| Chapter 13: Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott's Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes | 257 | ||
| Chapter 14: Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris | 279 | ||
| PART IV: Discussion and Debate | 293 | ||
| Chapter 15: Composed Theatre - Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication | 295 | ||
| PART V: Discourse and Analysis | 317 | ||
| Chapter 16: 'It is not about labelling, it's about understanding what we do': Composed Theatre as Discourse | 319 | ||
| Contributors | 363 | ||
| Back Cover | BC |