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      Beckett and Musicality

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      Beckett and Musicality book

      BySara Jane Bailes, Nicholas Till
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 12 April 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315568812
      Pages 302
      eBook ISBN 9781315568812
      Subjects Arts, Language & Literature
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      Bailes, S.J., & Till, N. (2014). Beckett and Musicality (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315568812

      ABSTRACT

      Discussion concerning the ’musicality’ of Samuel Beckett’s writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett’s engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by the ongoing interest of musicians in Beckett’s work. In Beckett’s drama and prose writings, the relationship with music plays out in implicit and explicit ways. Several of his works incorporate canonical music by composers such as Schubert and Beethoven. Other works integrate music as a compositional element, in dialogue or tension with text and image, while others adopt rhythm, repetition and pause to the extent that the texts themselves appear to be ’scored’. But what, precisely, does it mean to say that a piece of prose or writing for theatre, radio or screen, is ’musical’? The essays included in this book explore a number of ways in which Beckett’s writings engage with and are engaged by musicality, discussing familiar and less familiar works by Beckett in detail. Ranging from the scholarly to the personal in their respective modes of response, and informed by approaches from performance and musicology, literary studies, philosophy, musical composition and creative practice, these essays provide a critical examination of the ways we might comprehend musicality as a definitive and often overlooked attribute throughout Beckett’s work.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |8 pages

      Introduction: Beckett and Musicality

      chapter 1|18 pages

      ‘Shades of Lessing’: Beckett and the Aesthetics of the Modern Novel

      chapter 2|20 pages

      Beckett’s Proust, Schopenhauer, and the Musical Art of Pastiche

      ByCéline Surprenant

      chapter 3|16 pages

      Music and Metamusic in Beckett’s Early Plays for Radio

      ByKatarzyna Ojrzyńska

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Tuning In/Tuning Up: The Communicative Efforts of Words and Music in Samuel Beckett’s Words and Music

      chapter 5|22 pages

      Atonality and Eternity: The Musical Language of Comédie

      ByDavid Foster

      chapter 6|12 pages

      Richard Rijnvos and Rough for Radio I: Towards the Enrichment of an Impoverished Text

      chapter 7|18 pages

      Articulated Arrhythmia: Samuel Beckett’s Shorter Plays

      chapter 8|18 pages

      Describing Arabesques: Beckett and Dance

      ByThomas Mansell

      chapter 9|16 pages

      Not I for Solo Piano: Beckett’s Text as Music

      ByPaul Rhys

      chapter 10|16 pages

      The Next Ten Minutes: Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett

      ByMatthew Goulish

      chapter 11|12 pages

      Beckett’s Apertures and Overtures

      ByMary Bryden

      chapter 12|16 pages

      Ohio Impromptu: Reading Blanchot, Hearing Beckett

      BySara Jane Bailes

      chapter 13|18 pages

      FOURSOME

      ByChristof Migone

      chapter 14|22 pages

      Music in Beckett’s Nacht und Träume: Vocality and Imagination

      ByCatherine Laws
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