Samuel Beckett and Music

Name: Samuel Beckett and Music
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ISBN: 9780198184270

ISBN-10: 0198184271

ISBN-13: 9780198184270

Edition: 1998

Authors: Mary Bryden, Edward Beckett

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Much has been written about the importance of the viewing eye in Samuel Beckett's writing. Less attention has been paid to the place of sound and musicality. Yet Beckett once told a friend that he had always written for a voice. As well as being an accomplished pianist, Beckett was a passionate listener to music. In this study - the first full-length work to deal exclusively with Beckett and music - Mary Bryden brings together academics and composers in a wide-ranging collection of essays. Divided into two main sections, entitled 'Words' and 'Music', the book not only analyses a number of specific musical settings of Beckett's texts, but also considers the wider issue of sound and music…

Book details

List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/9/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 286
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction


Words


Words for Music Perhaps


Beckett and the Sound of Silence


The Note Man on the Word Man: Morton Feldman on Composing the Music for Samuel Beckett's Words and Music in The Beckett Festival of Radio Plays


Morton Feldman's Neither: A Musical Translation of Beckett's Text


Beckett and Holliger


End Games


Marcel Mihalovici and Samuel Beckett: Musicians of Return


That Time: Samuel Beckett and Wolfgang Fortner


'Something is Taking its Course': Dramatic Exactitude and the Paradigm of Serialism in Samuel Beckett


Proust and Schopenhauer: Music and Shadows


Interlude: Memories


Music in the Works of Samuel Beckett


Beckett's Involvement with Music


Music


Two interviews: Luciano Berio


The Indifference of the Broiler to the Broiled


Towards Parole da Beckett


Songs Within Words: The Programme TXMS and the Performance of Ping on the Piano


Between Word and Silence: Bing


Working with Beckett Texts


A Note: Dead Calm


Notes on Contributors


Select Bibliography


Index