Contents
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
Jörg U. Lensing
George Rodosthenous
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
Edited by Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner
PART V: Discourse and Analysis
David Roesner