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Zusatztext ..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 Klappentext 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 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. Zusammenfassung The importance of the viewing eye in Samuel Beckett's writing has been noted. Less attention has been paid to the place of sound and musicality. This collection of essays consists of two main sections, which analyze musical settings, and consider sound and music in the author's work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Introduction Part I: Words 1: Katharine Worth: Words for Music Perhaps 2: Mary Bryden: Beckett and the Sound of Silence 3: Everett Frost: 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 4: Catherine Laws: Morton Feldman's Neither: A Musical Translation of Beckett's Text 5: Philippe Albèra (trans. Mary Bryden): Beckett and Holliger 6: Peter Szendy (trans. Veronica Heath): End Games 7: Edith Fournier (trans. Mary Bryden): Marcel Mihalovici and Samuel Beckett: Musicians of Return 8: Brigitta Weber (trans. Julian Garforth): That Time: Samuel Beckett and Wolfgang Fortner 9: Harry White: 'Something is Taking its Course': Dramatic Exactitude and the Paradigm of Serialism in Samuel Beckett 10: John Pilling: Proust and Schopenhauer: Music and Shadows Interlude: Memories 1: Walter Beckett: Music in the Works of Samuel Beckett 2: Miron Grindea: Beckett's Involvement with Music Part II: Music 1: Two interviews: Luciano Berio, Philip Glass 2: Roger Reynolds: The Indifference of the Broiler to the Broiled 3: Giacomo Manzoni (trans. Walter Redfern): Towards Parole da Beckett 4: Clarence Barlow: Songs Within Words: The Programme TXMS and the Performance of Ping on the Piano 5: Jean-Yves Bosseur (trans. Mary Bryden): Between Word and Silence: Bing 6: Melanie Daiken: Working with Beckett Texts 7: Earl Kim: A Note: Dead Calm Notes on Contributors Select Bibliography Index ...