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Sound and Music for the Theatre, 4th Edition
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Sound and Music for the Theatre, 4th Edition

by Deena Kaye, James LeBrecht
September 2015
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
13h 14m
English
Routledge
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Introduction to the Third Edition

Sound design. The very words sound odd. Who designs sound? And why would you need to? Orators from the past apparently designed it in the way they spoke, or listeners were far keener than they are today: Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address to 9000 people. Without a microphone. Outdoors. Long before that there was Epidaurus. Thousands of spectator-listeners listening to, occasionally, whispers from the masked actors. Catharsis ensued, by all accounts.

What has changed? In terms of listening, in terms of hearing—almost everything. We hear differently now. And the sound designer helps us hear the insides of a play, from the way a door is opened offstage to the breeze we hear outside an onstage window. The sound ...

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ISBN: 9781317690573