Samuel Beckett and Music [Hardcover]

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 Musicis the first full-length work to deal exclusively with Beckett and music. This collection of essays, most written especially for the volume, brings together a number of leading composers and academics who analyze their response to Beckett's intense musicality.

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'sWords and MusicinThe Beckett Festival of Radio Plays,Everett Frost
4. Morton Feldman'sNeither: A Musical Translation of Beckett's Text,Catherine Laws
5. Beckett and Holliger,Philippe Alb?ra (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.Proustand 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. TowardsParole da Beckett,Giacomo Manzoni (trans. Walter Redfern)
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