Beckett And Musicality
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Beckett And Musicality
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Author : Sara Jane Bailes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Beckett And Musicality written by Sara Jane Bailes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Music categories.
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.
Beckett And Musicality
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Author : Sara Jane Bailes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Beckett And Musicality written by Sara Jane Bailes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Music and literature categories.
Radio Beckett
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Author : Kevin Branigan
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
Radio Beckett written by Kevin Branigan and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Music in literature categories.
In the decade following the success of Waiting for Godot (1952), Samuel Beckett wrote some of his most absorbing work for radio. These plays display the author's appreciation of the essential properties of radio broadcasting. They also highlight a profound musicality which, while evident in his novels, poetry and plays, is particularly noteworthy in this medium. This book is an analysis of the contribution made to radio drama by Beckett. In these plays, he is concerned with themes of human isolation and the frailty of memory and communication. He identified radio as an ideal medium for the presentation of these themes and the development of drama which could transcend the limitations of realism. Beckett used music as an essential component of his radio output for a variety of purposes. In this study, the author argues that, while Beckett's radio plays are suffused with a bleak sense of disintegration of language, music offers a sense of optimism. A variety of musical and performance perspectives is utilised to gain a greater appreciation of these radio plays.
Headaches Among The Overtones
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Author : Catherine Laws
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2013-12-10
Headaches Among The Overtones written by Catherine Laws and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Samuel Beckett produced some of the most powerful writing – some of the funniest but most devastating – of the twentieth century. He described his plays, prose and poetry as ‘an unnecessary stain on the silence’, but the extraordinary combination of concision and richness in his writing stems from his peculiar sensitivity to the sounds and rhythms of words. Moreover, music forms a part of Beckett’s comic aesthetics of failure: it plays a role in his exploration of the possibilities and failures of the imagination, and the ever-failing attempt to forge a sense of self. No wonder, then, that so many composers have taken inspiration from Beckett, setting his words to music or translating into music the dramatic themes or contexts of his work. Headaches Among the Overtones considers both music in Beckett and Beckett’s significance in contemporary music. In doing so, it explores the relationship between words, music and meaning, examining how comparable philosophical concerns and artistic effects appear in literature and music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Samuel Beckett And The Arts
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Author : Lois Oppenheim
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-18
Samuel Beckett And The Arts written by Lois Oppenheim and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with Art categories.
This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett’s visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and film, when his medium was the written word. The first section of the book focuses on music; the second part analyses the visual arts; and the third part examines film, radio and television. This book uncovers aspects of his thinking on, and use of the arts that have been little studied, including the nonfigurative function of music and art in Beckett’s work; the ‘collaborations’ undertaken by composers, painters and choreographers with his texts; the relation of his literary to his visual and musical artistry; and his use of film, radio and television as innovative means and celebration of artistic process.
Samuel Beckett And Music
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Author : Mary Bryden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Samuel Beckett And Music written by Mary Bryden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Music, Influence of in literature categories.
Here Bryden merges academics and composers in a wide-ranging collection of essays. The book not only analyses a number of specific musical settings of Beckett's texts, but also considers the wider issue of sound and music within Beckett's work.
Samuel Beckett Repetition And Modern Music
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Author : John McGrath
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-13
Samuel Beckett Repetition And Modern Music written by John McGrath and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-13 with Music categories.
Music abounds in twentieth- century Irish literature. Whether it be the "thought-tormented" music of Joyce’s "The Dead", the folk tunes and opera that resound throughout Ulysses, or the four- part threnody in Beckett’s Watt, it is clear that the influence of music on the written word in Ireland is deeply significant. Samuel Beckett arguably went further than any other writer in the incorporation of musical ideas into his work. Musical quotations inhabit his texts, and structural devices such as the da capo are metaphorically employed. Perhaps most striking is the erosion of explicit meaning in Beckett’s later prose brought about through an extensive use of repetition, influenced by his reading of Schopenhauer’s philosophy of music. Exploring this notion of "semantic fluidity", John McGrath discusses the ways in which Beckett utilised extreme repetition to create texts that operate and are received more like music. Beckett’s writing has attracted the attention of numerous contemporary composers and an investigation into how this Beckettian "musicalized fiction" has been retranslated into contemporary music forms the second half of the book. Close analyses of the Beckett- inspired music of experimental composer Morton Feldman and the structured improvisations of avantjazz guitarist Scott Fields illustrate the cross- genre appeal of Beckett to musicians, but also demonstrate how repetition operates in diverse ways. Through the examination of the pivotal role of repetition in both music and literature of the twentieth century and beyond, John McGrath’s book is a significant contribution to the field of Word and Music Studies.
Words And Music
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Author : Deborah Fillerup Weagel
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Words And Music written by Deborah Fillerup Weagel and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with European fiction categories.
Introduction -- Musical contrast in Albert Camus' L'étranger -- Musical counterpoint in Albert Camus' L'étranger -- Musical qualities in Samuel Beckett's En attendant Godot -- Silence in John Cage and Samuel Beckett : 4' 33" and En attendant Godot -- John Cage's collaboration of words and music in the song books -- The edited performance : Glenn Gould's solitude trilogy -- Musical and verbal counterpoint in two short films about Glenn Gould.
Samuel Beckett Repetition And Modern Music
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Author : John McGrath (Guitarist)
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018
Samuel Beckett Repetition And Modern Music written by John McGrath (Guitarist) and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Music categories.
Music abounds in twentieth-century Irish literature. Whether it be the 'thought-tormented' music of Joyce's 'The Dead', or the four-part threnody in Beckett's Watt, it is clear that the influence of music on the written word in Ireland is deeply significant. Samuel Beckett arguably went further than any other in the incorporation of musical ideas into his work. John McGrath discusses the ways in which Beckett utilized extreme repetition to create texts that operate and are received more like music. An investigation into how this Beckettian 'musicalized fiction' has been retranslated into contemporary music forms the second half of the book.
Listening In
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Author : Eric Prieto
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Listening In written by Eric Prieto and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Music categories.
What can music teach a novelist, autobiographer, or playwright about the art of telling stories? The musical play of forms and sounds seems initially to have little to do with the representational function of the traditional narrative genres. Yet throughout the modernist era, music has been invoked as a model for narrative in its specifically mimetic dimension. Although modernist writers may conceive of musical communication in widely divergent ways, they have tended to agree on one crucial point: that music can help transform narrative into a medium better adapted to the representation of consciousness. Eric Prieto studies the twentieth-century evolution of this use of music, with particular emphasis on the postwar Parisian avant-garde. For such writers as Samuel Beckett, Michel Leiris, and Robert Pinget, music provides a number of guiding metaphors for the inwardly directed mode of mimesis that Prieto calls "listening in," where the object of representation is not the outside world but the subtly modulating relations between consciousness and world. This kind of semiotic boundary crossing between music and literature is inherently metaphorical, but, as Prieto's analyses of Beckett, Leiris, and Pinget show, these interart analogies provide valuable clues for bringing to light the unspoken assumptions, obscurely understood principles, and extra-literary aspirations that gave such urgency to the modernist quest to better represent the mind in action.