Radio play music

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Radio play music is a generic term for music that is used in radio plays . In terms of its dramaturgical means, it is related to the older stage music and the film music that was created around the same time . Your composers are often stage and film music composers at the same time.

history

When radio was first created in the 1920s, thought was given to media-specific music that led to the genre of radio music, for example . New mixed forms of music and dialogue, such as in the radio play Leben in this Zeit (1929) by Erich Kästner with the music by Edmund Nick , achieved widespread public success. By the sound film since 1930 and then especially by television since the 1950s, the radio play has been pushed back into a niche.

The radio play often uses the possibilities of collage to set itself apart from an older theatrical dramaturgy. Various forms of sound art have developed from this. Like film music, radio play music can have tectonic and syntactic functions, i.e. structure the radio play by insertions, create arcs of tension, but also indicate locations as background music or clarify moods (as extra- diegetic music). At the beginning often, from 1950 on, singing interludes like in the radio opera are less common .

At times, larger ensembles such as the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne were available for the recording of radio play music . Traditionally, the chamber play character of the more modern radio play corresponds more to the smaller ensembles. More recently, the composition of radio play music has merged with sound design , and post-dramatic mixtures of language and music have emerged.

Radio play music has always been understood as the medium of a musical avant-garde , more than film music, which is aimed at a wider impact . For example, Pierre Boulez , Hans Werner Henze , Hans Jönsson , Mauricio Kagel and Bernd Alois Zimmermann have composed music for radio plays.

literature

  • Siegfried Goslich: Music on the radio. Tutzing: Schneider 1971.
  • Mechtild Hobl-Friedrich, Mechtild: The dramaturgical function of music in radio plays. Basics - analyzes. Diss. Univ. Erlangen / Nuremberg 1991.
  • Mauricio Kagel: The book of radio plays , ed. v. Klaus Schöning. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1982.
  • Hermann Naber , Hans-Burkhard Schlichting (Ed.) Acoustic forms of play. From radio play music to radio art. The Karl Sczuka Prize 1955-2005 , Baden-Baden: Nomos 2005.
  • Christoph Reinecke: Montage and collage in tape music with special consideration of the radio play. A typological consideration. Diss. Univ. Hamburg 1986.
  • Kurt Blaukopf, Siegfried Goslich, Wilfried Scheib (eds.): 50 years of music on radio. Reports and contributions , Vienna: Jugend und Volk 1973.
  • Christiane Timper: Radio Play Music in German Radio History . Original compositions in the German radio play 1923-1986 , Berlin: Spiess 1990.