Music and Sound in European Theatre: Practices, Performances, Perspectives [Hardcover]

The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident.??This volume unites experts from different disciplines and backgrounds to make a significant contribution to the much-needed discourse on theatre music.

Part 1 Setting the Scene  1. What Is Theatre Music?  2. More Connecting Than Dividing Features? On Historical Precedents of Contemporary Theatre Music  Part 2 Theatre Music and Musical Heritages in Transition  3. For Your Time Draweth Fast, If Ye Will Saved Be: Ephemerality, Materiality, and the Challenges of Archiving the Theatre Music of the Play Jedermann  4. Kilam as Theatre Music in Kurdish Theatre in Turkey  5. Ways of Listening: Maqam Music on the Contemporary Stage  6. Mixtape Dramaturgy: The Case of Jan Klata  Part 3 Theatre Music and/as Performance  7. Theatre Music as Theatrical Scene: Reflections on a Disciplinary Dilemma  8. Staging (Theatre) Music Reception: Voicing Unacoustics in Sophocles Trackers  9. More Than Unseen Sounds: Foley on Stage. Performing Live Sound Effects as Musico-Theatrical Practice  Part 4 Theatre Music and/as Experience  10. Overwhelmed by Sound? Staged Effects of Sound and Music on the Audience  11. The Tempest (2016) at the Royal Shakespeare Company: Music and Sound in a Literary Theatre  12. At the Interface of Theatre Music and Music Theatre: Monika Roschers Music for Ulrich Rasches Stagings in the Mirror of Reviews  13. The Relationship between Storytelling and Sound Experience in Theatre for Young Audiences  Part 5 Theatre Music Between and Beyond Genres  14. Performance Worlds? Reflections on Music Theatre Scenes Formerly Called l!