Matthias Rebstock & David Roesner 
Composed Theatre [EPUB ebook] 
Aesthetics, Practices, Processes

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

David Roesner is professor of theatre and music theatre at the LMU Munich. He previously worked at the universities of Hildesheim, Exeter and Kent. Recent publications include Theatre Noise: The Sound of Performance (with Lynne Kendrick, CSP, 2011), Composed Theatre: Aesthetics, Practices, Processes (with Matthias Rebstock, Intellect, 2012) and his latest monograph Musicality in Theatre: Music as Model, Method and Metaphor in Theatre-Making (Ashgate 2014). For a full list of publications and projects, see http://mhn.academia.edu/David Roesner.