Samuel Beckett and Music
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 29 January 1998
- ISBN 9780198184270
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 243x162x21 mm
- Weight 574 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, line figures, music examples 0
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Short description:
Samuel Beckett, one of the century's most original playwrights and novelists, was also passionately interested in music. He once told a friend that all his work had been written for a voice. Samuel Beckett and Music is a collection of essays, most written especially for the volume, which consider this aspect of his work. In it, Mary Bryden brings together a number of leading composers and academics who analyse their response to Beckett's intense musicality.
MoreLong description:
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 within the author's work. Whether interviews, personal recollections by friends or relatives, or more formal essays, all the material in this collection has either been written specially for this volume, or is appearing for the first time in English.
A book on the subject was long overdue, and Mary Bryden's collection of essays elegantly fills the gap ... in these vaporously postmodern times it is refreshing to encounter a volume with as well defined and well-researched a subject as this ... These essays enhance our understanding of music in Beckett and our sense of its mystery, too.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: 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
Part II: Music
Two interviews: Luciano Berio, Philip Glass
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
