Samuel Beckett and Music - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198184271 ISBN 13: 9780198184270

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Bryden is at University of Paris.

Review:

`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

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0198184271
• ISBN 13: 9780198184270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Bryden Mary