In the past weeks I have been reading very eclectically on theatre theories, individual practitioners and theories of music and music aesthetic. It is that phase where everything is possible but also far too complex and slightly daunting.
Yesterday, I had a very interesting conversation with Sven Bjerstedt from Sweden, who works as a jazz musician and theatre facilitator and is also very interested in the metaphor of "musicality" in theatre. For those who read Swedish (sadly, I don't) his MA thesis on the topic is online: http://www.iac.lu.se/projects.aspx#150
We discussed how notions of what practitioners refer to when they say "music" varies - culturally, but also historically. I am sure this will be a key challenge of the book: to explore what notions of music underlie the respective metaphors (or actual "techniques") employed by (or promoted by) theatre practitioners across different times.
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