ABSTRACT
Musicality's interplay with (in) theatre has given rise to a number of different and at times even contradictory practices and aesthetics. Musicality is not only influential on the level of aesthetic effect, transforming ways of staging, addressing text or serving as a catalyst or organizing principle between the different arts and media on the theatrical stage. The musicality dispositif in opera and other music-theatrical genres describes this wider field of activity, process and discourse, including but not limited to, the musical characteristics of the score. Aesthetic dispositifs can be understood as epistemological models for complex systems and interactions. Equally, a wide range of therapeutic methods contains musical and rhythmical stimuli to support recovery, and in sport, music is used to affect the motivation and organization of physical performance. Beyond the realm of sports and medicine, deNora highlights the significance of music in a psychological and sociological sense for both individual constructions of self and social interactions.
