{"product_id":"composed-theatre-aesthetics-practices-processes-9781841504568","title":"Composed Theatre: Aesthetics, Practices,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA unique contribution to an emerging field, \u003cem\u003eComposed Theatre\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A significant, stimulating introduction to a strand of theatre that is bound to move more centre-field.'\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e -- Adam Somerset for Theatre in Wales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Brings together a diverse range of voices and perspectives, appropriately conveying the sense of scholars and artists engaged in ongoing debate about a developing form. ... It is a style of performance I ahve had little direct experience with but the book made me want to hear and see more.'\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e -- Jackie Smart for Theatre Research International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'The volume is accompanied by many beautiful full-colour illustrations (some being major works in art history), photographs and diagrams, making it an appealing choice as a textbook for a number of University courses and programmes, as well as a delight for researchers'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Studies in Theatre and Performance, Pamela Karantonis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e: Composed Theatre in Context – David Roesner\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: History and Methodology \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field – Matthias Rebstock\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Composition and Theatre – Roland Quitt\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: ‘Happy New Ears’: Creating Hearing and the Hearable – Petra Maria Meyer\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: ‘It’s all part of one concern’: A ‘Keynote’ to Composition as Staging – Heiner Goebbels\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: ‘ Theatre in small quantities’: On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects – Michael Hirsch\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: … To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State … – Jörg Laue\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge – Jörg U. Lensing\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: ‘ Let’s stop talking about it and just do it!’: Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process – George Rodosthenous\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Hearing Voices – Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media – Nicholas Till\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance – Demetris Zavros\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: ‘Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique’: The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis – Matthias Rebstock\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann’s Theatre Work(s) – Judith Gerstenberg\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott’s Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes – Christa Brüstle\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris – Jörn Peter Hiekel\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: Discussion and Debate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 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\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART V: Discourse and Analysis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 16: ‘ It is not about labelling, it’s about understanding what we do’: Composed Theatre as Discourse – David Roesner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042924036439,"sku":"9781841504568","price":47.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781841504568.jpg?v=1750956243","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/composed-theatre-aesthetics-practices-processes-9781841504568","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}