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Samuel Beckett and Music

Edited by Mary Bryden

Price: £59.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818427-0
Publication date: 29 January 1998
288 pages, 61 halftones & line illus., 234x156 mm

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Reviews

'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.' - David Wheatley, The Irish Times (Dublin)
'..this book is the first to move beyond analogy to a sustained consideration of the relation between his words and music other than the music of words. ... Bryden's own essay, 'Beckett and the Sound of Silence'. provides a stimulating synthesis of materials. ... making telling reference to pronouncements on music by philosophers and musicians. This piece takes its place as the authoriative statement on the subject./Paul Lawley/Irish Studies Review 6/3' -

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.

Readership: Students and scholars of Irish literature, twentieth-century literature, and literary criticism.

Contents

Foreword , Edward Beckett

Introduction , Mary Bryden

Part I: Words

1. Words for Music Perhaps , Katharine Worth

2. Beckett and the Sound of Silence , Mary Bryden

3. 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 , Everett Frost

4. Morton Feldman's Neither : A Musical Translation of Beckett's Text , Catherine Laws

5. Beckett and Holliger , Philippe Albèra (trans. Mary Bryden)

6. End Games , Peter Szendy (trans. Veronica Heath)

7. Marcel Mihalovici and Samuel Beckett: Musicians of Return , Edith Fournier (trans. Mary Bryden)

8. That Time : Samuel Beckett and Wolfgang Fortner , Brigitta Weber (trans. Julian Garforth)

9. 'Something is Taking its Course': Dramatic Exactitude and the Paradigm of Serialism in Samuel Beckett , Harry White

10. Proust and Schopenhauer: Music and Shadows , John Pilling

Interlude: Memories

1. Music in the Works of Samuel Beckett , Walter Beckett

2. Beckett's Involvement with Music , Miron Grindea

Part II: Music

1. Two interviews: Luciano Berio, Philip Glass

2. The Indifference of the Broiler to the Broiled , Roger Reynolds

3. Towards Parole da Beckett , Giacomo Manzoni (trans. Walter Redfern)

4. Songs Within Words: The Programme TXMS and the Performance of Ping on the Piano , Clarence Barlow

5. Between Word and Silence: Bing , Jean-Yves Bosseur (trans. Mary Bryden)

6. Working with Beckett Texts , Melanie Daiken

7. A Note: Dead Calm , Earl Kim

Notes on Contributors

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Index

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Mary Bryden, Senior Lecturer in French; Joint Director of the Beckett International Foundation, University of Reading

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Music

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