Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context - David Roesner
PART I: History and Methodology
Chapter 1: Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field - Matthias Rebstock
Chapter 2: Composition and Theatre - Roland Quitt
Chapter 3: 'Happy New Ears': Creating Hearing and the Hearable - Petra Maria Meyer
PART II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections
Chapter 4: 'It's all part of one concern': A 'Keynote' to Composition as Staging - Heiner Goebbels
Chapter 5: ' Theatre in small quantities': On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects - Michael Hirsch
Chapter 6: ... To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State ... - Jorg Laue
Chapter 7: From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klange - Jorg U. Lensing
Chapter 8: ' Let's stop talking about it and just do it!': Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process - George Rodosthenous
Chapter 9: Hearing Voices - Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media - Nicholas Till
Chapter 10: Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance - Demetris Zavros
PART III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses
Chapter 11: 'Ça devient du theâtre, mais ça vient de la musique': The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis - Matthias Rebstock
Chapter 12: Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Hausermann's Theatre Work(s) - Judith Gerstenberg
Chapter 13: Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott's Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes - Christa Bru?stle
Chapter 14: Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris - Jorn Peter Hiekel
PART IV: Discussion and Debate
Chapter 15: 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
Chapter 16: ' It is not about labelling, it's about understanding what we do': Composed Theatre as Discourse - David Roesner
