Composed theatre : aesthetics, practices, processes / edited by Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner.

Introduction : composed theatre in context / David Roesner -- Part I. History and methodology. Composed theatre : mapping the field / Matthias Rebstock ; Composition and theatre / Roland Quitt ; Happy new ears : creating hearing and the hearable / Petra Maria Meyer -- Part II. Processes and practices : work reports and reflections. It’s all part of one concern : a ’keynote’ to composition as staging / Heiner Goebbels ; Theatre in small quantities : on composition for speech, sounds and objects / Michael Hirsch ; --to gather together what exists in a dispersed state-- / Jörg Laue ; From interdisciplinary improvisation to integrative composition : working processes at the Theatre der Klänge / Jörg U. Lensing ; Let’s stop talking about it and just do it! Improvisation as the beginning of the compositional process / George Rodosthenous ; Hearing voices : transcriptions of the phonogram of a schizophrenic : music-theatre for performer and audio-visual media / Nicholas Till ; Composing theatre on a diagonal : Metaxi ALogon, a music-centric performance / Demetris Zavros -- Part III. Processes and practices : portraits and analyses. Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique : the music theatre of Georges Aperghis / Matthias Rebstock ; Musical conquest and settlement : on Ruedi Häusermann’s theatre work(s) / Judith Gerstenberg ; Composing with raw materials : Daniel Ott’s music-theatre portraits and landscapes / Christa Brüstle ; Permanent quest : the processional theatre of Manos Tsangaris / Jörn Peter Hiekel -- Part IV. Discussion and debate. 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. It is not about labelling, it’s about understanding what we do : composed theatre as discourse / David Roesner.

'Composed Theatre' explores musical strategies of organisation as viable alternative means of organising theatrical work. In addition to essays by a group of international contributors, this volume also includes reports and interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on the historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre.