Staging Scores: Musical composition as strategy and structure of performance

Abstract

In this article, we deploy overlapping conceptual frameworks to address contemporary performance work we were involved in devising, which explored the representation and utilisation of classical music from a theatrical and structural perspective. It combines Postdramatic Theatre (Lehmann, 2006), Composed Theatre (Rebstock and Roesner, 2012) and Score Theatre (Spagnolo, 2017) in order to expose how our performance practices are invested in the language, etiquettes, and compositional principles of classical music.