Composed Theatre (eBook)

lt;p>David Roesner is a senior lecturer in drama at the University of Exeter.

Matthias Rebstock is junior professor of scenic music at the University of Hildesheim in Germany.

Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context – David Roesner

PART I: History and Methodology

Chapter 1: Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field – Matthias Rebstock

Chapter 2: Composition and Theatre – Roland Quitt

Chapter 3: ‘Happy New Ears’: Creating Hearing and the Hearable – Petra Maria Meyer

PART II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections

Chapter 4: ‘It’s all part of one concern’: A ‘Keynote’ to Composition as Staging – Heiner Goebbels

Chapter 5: ‘ Theatre in small quantities’: On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects – Michael Hirsch

Chapter 6: … To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State … – Jörg Laue

Chapter 7: From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge – Jörg U. Lensing

Chapter 8: ‘ Let’s stop talking about it and just do it!’: Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process – George Rodosthenous

Chapter 9: Hearing Voices – Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media – Nicholas Till

Chapter 10: Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance – Demetris Zavros

PART III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses 

Chapter 11: ‘Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique’: The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis – Matthias Rebstock

Chapter 12: Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann’s Theatre Work(s) – Judith Gerstenberg

Chapter 13: Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott’s Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes – Christa Brüstle

Chapter 14: Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris – Jörn Peter Hiekel

PART IV: Discussion and Debate

Chapter 15: Composed Theatre – Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication – Edited by Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner

PART V: Discourse and Analysis

Chapter 16: ‘ It is not about labelling, it’s about understanding what we do’: Composed Theatre as Discourse – David Roesner