Front Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context -- PART I: History and Methodology -- Chapter 1: Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field -- Chapter 2: Composition and Theatre -- Chapter 3: 'Happy New Ears': Creating Hearing and the Hearable -- PART II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections -- Chapter 4: 'It's all part of one concern': A 'Keynote' to Composition as Staging -- Chapter 5: 'Theatre in small quantities': On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects -- Chapter 6: ... To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State ... -- Chapter 7: From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge -- Chapter 8: 'Let's stop talking about it and just do it!': Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process -- Chapter 9: Hearing Voices - Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media -- Chapter 10: Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance -- PART III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses -- Chapter 11: 'Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique': The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis -- Chapter 12: Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann's Theatre Work(s) -- Chapter 13: Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott's Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes -- Chapter 14: Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris -- PART IV: Discussion and Debate -- Chapter 15: Composed Theatre - Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication -- PART V: Discourse and Analysis.

Chapter 16: 'It is not about labelling, it's about understanding what we do': Composed Theatre as Discourse -- Contributors -- Back Cover.