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Music and Sound in European Theatre: Practices, Performances, Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Music and Sound in European Theatre Practices, Performances, Perspectives

Edited By David Roesner, Tamara Yasmin Quick Copyright 2025
338 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident. Musical and sonic practices have been an integral part of theatre ever since the artform was first established 2,500 years ago: not just in subsequent genres that are explicitly driven by music, such as opera, operetta, ballet, or musical theatre, but in all kinds of theatrical forms and conventions.... Read more

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Ross Brown

 

Introduction 

Tamara Yasmin Quick and David Roesner 

Part 1 Setting the Scene

1. What Is Theatre Music?

David Roesner

2. More Connecting Than Dividing Features? On Historical Precedents of Contemporary Theatre Music

Ursula Kramer

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

Natalie Stadler

4. Kilam as Theatre Music in Kurdish Theatre in Turkey

Duygu Celik

5. Ways of Listening: Maqam Music on the Contemporary Stage

Deniz Başar

6. Mixtape Dramaturgy: The Case of Jan Klata

Anna R. Burzyńska

Part 3 Theatre Music and/as Performance

7. Theatre Music as Theatrical Scene: Reflections on a ‘Disciplinary Dilemma’

Tamara Yasmin Quick

8. Staging (Theatre) Music Reception: Voicing Unacoustics in Sophocles’ Trackers

Konstantinos Thomaidis

9. More Than Unseen Sounds: Foley on Stage. Performing Live Sound Effects as Musico-Theatrical Practice

Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka

Part 4 Theatre Music and/as Experience

10. Overwhelmed by Sound? Staged Effects of Sound and Music on the Audience

Julia H. Schroder

11. The Tempest (2016) at the Royal Shakespeare Company: Music and Sound in a Literary Theatre

Millie Taylor

12. At the Interface of ‘Theatre Music’ and ‘Music Theatre’: Monika Roscher’s Music for Ulrich Rasche’s Stagings in the Mirror of Reviews

Helena Langewitz

13. The Relationship between Storytelling and Sound Experience in Theatre for Young Audiences

Christiane Plank-Baldauf

Part 5 Theatre Music Between and Beyond Genres

14. Performance Worlds? Reflections on Music Theatre Scenes Formerly Called Diegetic

Christine Fischer

15. Inside Yellow Sound and the Vibrations of the Audience’s Soul

Maria Kapsali

16. Narrating Exilic Stories Through Composed Atmospheres: A Cognitive-Narratological Investigation of Music and Dance in Singulière Odyssée

Pieter Verstraete

Part 6 Theatre Music and Training

17. An Ethnographic Account of Learning and Training Theatre Music in the Czech and Slovak Independent Theatre Scene

Elia Moretti

18. The Shaping of "Good Sound" in Handbooks for Theatre Sound Creation

Katharina Rost

Index

Biography

David Roesner is Professor for Theatre and Music Theatre at the LMU Munich, Germany.

Tamara Yasmin Quick works as a Munich-based dramaturg, lecturer, associate researcher, and project coordinator at various academic and artistic institutions.

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