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.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context
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
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 …
Chapter 7: From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge
Chapter 8: ‘Let's stop talking about it and just do it!’: Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process
Chapter 9: Hearing Voices - Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media
Chapter 10: Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance
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
Chapter 12: Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann's Theatre Work(s)
Chapter 13: Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott's Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes
Chapter 14: Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris
PART IV: Discussion and Debate
Chapter 15: Composed Theatre - Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication
PART V: Discourse and Analysis
Chapter 16: ‘It is not about labelling, it's about understanding what we do’: Composed Theatre as Discourse
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