Use of music and sound in drama AQA/OCR It offers a balance between

It offers a balance between ‘theatre in the making’ and ‘theatre in the world’

ideas about the design should be related to the material on which the piece is based

especially

and also reflect more modern

Use of music and sound in drama AQA/OCR It offers a balance betweenFrom the very beginnings of drama, there has always been a close, even symbiotic, relationship between drama and music. Music was an essential component of ancient Greek theatre: the word melodrama literally means melody drama. Film and television drama would be not be the same without a music soundtrack, yet the use of music and sound is often neglected in drama lessons. This neglect was probably understandable when the only source of recorded music