Theatrimusicality

Situated at the interstices of music and theatre studies, Theatrimusicality: Spectauralising Performance reframes the dynamic interplay of theatricality and musicality and theorises theatrimusicality as a conceptual consequent of analysing contemporary performance practices that lie in the intersection between theatre and music. The book establishes theatrimusicality as a hermeneutic apparatus and a dramaturgical approach to examining these works of the in-between that defy neat taxonomies. Examining the co-transformative inter-workings, where the musical frames the theatrical even as the theatrical fashions the musical, Tan demonstrates how theatrimusicality allows new ways of meaning-making and analysis. The book also introduces an accompanying concept of spectaurality, a mode of reception that involves seeing musicality and listening to theatricality. Encountering performance spectaurally engenders alternative interpretive and affective experiences. Through deep analyses of a range of performances from varying cultures and contexts, Theatrimusicality encourages an appreciation of the co-presence of listening and seeing where perception becomes intertwined and relational.

1. Introduction: Theatricality, Musicality, Theatrimusicality. - 2. Theatrimusicality as Otobiography: Seeing the Music of Margaret Leng Tan. - 3. Theatricalising (String) Music: Choreographic Musicality. - 4. Reflexive Theatrimusicality:
The Encounter
as Sonic Theatre. - 5. Conclusion.