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The definitive guide to writing music for the stage, by the
Composer-in-Residence at the Donmar Warehouse. Music has played a
vital part in drama since the earliest days of theatre. For
composers, writing music for the stage is an opportunity to
exercise their utmost creativity and versatility: a good musical
score will both support and enhance the play it serves, and can
lift a prosaic moment into something quite extraordinary. In this
book, Michael Bruce takes you through the entire process - from
initial preparation, through composition, rehearsals and recording,
and finally to performance. He covers everything a composer needs
to know, including: * Getting started - spotting when and how music
might be used in a play, doing research, considering form and
content * Building a 'sound world' - finding and using source
music, creating incidental music, choosing the best
instrumentation, scoring, utilising technology, writing music to
accompany song lyrics * Working on the production - understanding
the composer's role in rehearsals, collaborating with key
creatives, employing actor-musicians, getting the show on *
Recording - knowing when to record, booking and working with
musicians - and the studio engineer, running a recording session
Throughout the book, the author draws on his own experience of
creating music for a wide variety of plays at the Donmar Warehouse,
the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway, including
detailed case studies of his work on The Recruiting Officer,
Coriolanus, Privacy, The Winslow Boy, Noises Off and Strange
Interlude. The book is accompanied by online excerpts from his
scores. An essential companion for all composers - amateur, student
or professional - Writing Music for the Stage is also invaluable
reading for other theatre professionals, including directors,
playwrights, producers, actors, designers and sound designers - in
fact, for anyone seeking to understand how music helps to create
worlds and tell stories on stage. 'This fascinating book - like its
author (with whom I've had the good fortune to work on three
productions) - is bursting with practical advice, good sense and
invention. A must-read for all those with an interest in how music
works on stage.' Mark Gatiss 'A good score makes a world of
difference to an actor. Read Michael Bruce's book and you'll
understand why. He is a genius.' Judi Dench 'Michael's music is
wonderful: inclusive, original, respectful and - in its rightness -
sheer joy.' Josie Rourke, from her Foreword
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William Cowper (Paperback)
William Cowper; Volume editing by Michael Bruce
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R217
Discovery Miles 2 170
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A selection of poems by William Cowper, edited by Michael Bruce
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Works (Hardcover)
Michael Bruce
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R977
Discovery Miles 9 770
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Some people say that "gay" people are born that way; it's in their
genes. Some people say it's because of an overbearing or absent
father. Others blame a dominating mother, or being dressed as the
opposite sex as a child. What about emotional issues like abuse,
trauma, or rejection? What do you think? This book is a true story
of a lonely boy, growing up. His mother died and he spent ten years
in boarding school. By age sixteen, he realised he was "gay". After
several one-sided relationships, he met someone and shared mutual
affection. They lived together as a couple. This story could have
ended: "And they both lived happily ever after." Then God showed
up! Both guys became Christians the same day. Would anything
change?
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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Greatlander (Paperback)
Donna Casey; Michael Bruce-Lockhart
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R491
Discovery Miles 4 910
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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"Yer hewmn " Damon Ryan, wakes in the wreckage of his ship, to the
sight of Nicodemus, harper, unwilling mystic, outcast, staring down
at him in disbelief. The amazement is mutual. Deep in uncharted
space, his ship out of power, Damon hadn't expected to survive,
much less find another member of his own species. So begins the
partnership that threatens the very premise on which the Land was
founded. Two very different people from unimaginably different
cultures, one technological and wholly egalitarian, the other
medieval, hierarchical, reflexively distrustful of change. But, in
the irrevocably stranded spacer, Nicodemus recognizes a man more
exiled than himself. All they can salvage from the wreckage is a
little gold Damon carried for currency and his infocom, a wrist
computer he dismisses as a toy. Although the spacer thinks of his
accident as no more than the downside of random chance, Nicodemus
believes he discerns the hand of the god. Damon will masquerade as
his servant, while they seek how to fit him in to a society that
frowns upon a masterless man. Yet as they travel the Land and the
power of the infocom becomes apparent, Nicodemus begins to wonder:
is it the man the god sent, or his machine?
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