
Playing by Ear
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'Listen!'
In this collection of new essays, the world-renowned director Peter Brook offers unique and personal insights into sound and music - from the surprising impact of Broadway musicals on his famous Midsummer Night's Dream, to the allure of applause, and on to the ultimate empty space: silence.
It is studded throughout with episodes from the author's own life and career in opera, theatre and film - including working on many of his most notable productions, and intimate first-hand accounts of collaborating with leading figures including Truman Capote, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh - and ranges across musical styles and cultures from around the world.
Playing by Ear is full of Brook's shafts of insight and perception, and written with his customary wit and wisdom. It is a rich companion to his earlier reflections on Shakespeare in The Quality of Mercy and on language and meaning in Tip of the Tongue.
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- Intro
- Title page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Part One
- The Birth of Form
- My First Teacher
- Tradition
- Field of Battles
- Fat Paunches
- A Long Phrase
- Hit or Miss
- Quarter-ear Music
- Life is In Between
- Incidental Music
- Two for One and One for All
- Part Two
- The Speed of Thought
- No Business Like Show Business
- House of Flowers
- Irma la Douce
- The Beggar's Opera
- Words and Music
- Don Giovanni
- A Magic Flute
- The Prisoner
- Labour of Love
- The Sound of Silence
- Keep Silence
- About the Author
- Copyright Information
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