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Sound : a reader in theatre practice /

By: Brown, Ross, 1963-.
Series: Readers in theatre practices: Publisher: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: xvi, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780230551879 (hardback); 9780230551879:; 0230551874 (hardback); 9780230551886 (pbk.); 0230551882 (pbk.).Subject(s): Theaters -- Sound effects | Theater -- Production and directionDDC classification: 792.024
Contents:
Defining theatre sound design -- What the textbooks say -- The pre-history of sound design -- Alternative takes -- Five sound designers in their own words -- Problems with sound as scenography -- Live listening : the aural phenomenology of theatre -- Resounding theatres -- Alternative realities -- John Levack Drever on sound effect, object, event -- Conclusion : the theatre of sound II.
Summary: Brown explores relationships between sound and theatre, focusing on sound's interdependence and interaction with human performance and drama. Suggesting different ways in which sound may be interpreted to create meaning, it includes key writings on sound design, as well as perspectives from beyond the discipline.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defining theatre sound design -- What the textbooks say -- The pre-history of sound design -- Alternative takes -- Five sound designers in their own words -- Problems with sound as scenography -- Live listening : the aural phenomenology of theatre -- Resounding theatres -- Alternative realities -- John Levack Drever on sound effect, object, event -- Conclusion : the theatre of sound II.

Brown explores relationships between sound and theatre, focusing on sound's interdependence and interaction with human performance and drama. Suggesting different ways in which sound may be interpreted to create meaning, it includes key writings on sound design, as well as perspectives from beyond the discipline.

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