Bryden, Mary - Samuel Beckett and Music

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 a collection of essays, most written especially for the volume, which consider this aspect of his work. In it, Mary Bryden brings together a number of leading composers and academics who analyse their response to Beckett's intense musicality.

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CONTENTS

Edward Beckett: Foreword
Mary Bryden: 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 Albera (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