
Sound: A Reader in Theatre Practice
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Content
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface
- List of Readings
- Introduction: The Theatre of Sound I
- Immersivity
- Critical Perspective
- Theatrum Mundi
- Part I Dramaturgically Organized Noise
- 1 Defining Theatre Sound Design
- Design
- The Somewhat Reluctant Discourse of Theatre Sound
- Conclusion
- 2 What the Textbooks Say
- Stage Sound in 1904
- The 'Business of Making Noises'
- The Scope and Limitations of Theatre Sound
- The Use of Sound
- Sound Design and Craft
- Art and Craft in Theatre Sound Design
- Sound versus Music, and Peter Sellers on the Ontological Aurality of Theatre
- Conclusion
- 3 The Pre-History of Sound Design
- Introduction
- Sound 'Within the Wooden O'
- Music 'In Production' at the Blackfriars Theatre
- Music and Melodrama
- The Picturesque of Sound
- The Duke of Rhubarb
- The Dramaturgy of Pause, Quietness and Silence
- Aural Dramaturgy and Symbolism
- Conclusion
- 4 Alternative Takes
- Sound and Ritual Practices
- Magic through Sound: Illusion, Reception and Agreed Pretence
- The Dramaturgy of Silence
- The Relationship between Sound and Theatre
- 5 Five Sound Designers in Their Own Words
- Napier beyond Realism
- Paul Arditti on Theatre Sound Design in the Digital Age
- Hans Peter Kuhn on Theatre and Sonic Art
- John Collins on Devising Sound with the Wooster Group and ERS
- An Interview with Jonathan Deans
- Part II Theatrically Organized Hearing
- 6 Problems with Sound as Scenography
- Showing
- Recording
- Outside the Empire of Signs
- Auditory Engagement/Aural Distraction
- 7 Live Listening: The Aural Phenomenology of Theatre
- The Phenomenology of Auditory Experience
- Atmo-sphere
- Liveness
- 8 Resounding Theatres
- Stone Age Sound Design
- Vitruvius on Architecture
- Privileging the Aural: Shakespearian Acoustics
- 9 Alternative Realities
- The Sonic Scene
- Surround Sound
- Designing Surround Sound at the Manchester Royal Exchange
- Richard K. Thomas on The Sounds of Time
- 10 John Levack Drever on Sound Effect - Object - Event
- Introduction
- The Umbilical Sound Effect
- Inauguration: The Judge (1890)
- The Operation of Sound Effects Today
- Sound Object: A Return to the 'Innocent Ear'
- 'Fright Effect'
- Sound Event: Contextual Listenings
- Acoustemology
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: The Theatre of Sound II
- How to Think about Theatre Sound Design
- How-to-Do Theatre Sound Design
- Bibliography
- Index
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