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Beckett and Musicality This page has been left blank intentionally Beckett and Musicality Edited by sara Jane Bailes and nicholas till University of Sussex, UK © sara Jane Bailes and nicholas till 2014 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. sara Jane Bailes and nicholas till have asserted their right under the copyright, designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Bach musicological font © yo tomita Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing company Wey court east 110 cherry street union road suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, Vt 05401-3818 surrey, Gu9 7Pt usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Beckett and musicality / edited by sara Jane Bailes and nicholas till. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-1-4724-0963-8 (hardcover) – isBn 978-1-4724-0964-5 (ebook) – isBn 978-1-4724-0965-2 (ebook) 1. Beckett, samuel, 1906-1989 – criticism and interpretation. 2. Music and literature. 3. Music in the theater. i. Bailes, sara Jane. ii. till, nicholas, 1955- Ml80.B42B43 2014 780.92–dc23 2014015547 isBn 9781472409638 (hbk) isBn 9781472409645 (ebk – PdF) isBn 9781472409652 (ebk – ePuB) V Contents List of Figures vii List of Music Examples ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xv Introduction: Beckett and Musicality 1 Sara Jane Bailes and Nicholas Till 1 ‘Shades of Lessing’: Beckett and the Aesthetics of the Modern Novel 9 Franz Michael Maier 2 Beckett’s Proust, Schopenhauer, and the Musical Art of Pastiche 27 Céline Surprenant 3 Music and Metamusic in Beckett’s Early Plays for Radio 47 Katarzyna Ojrzyńska 4 Tuning In/Tuning Up: The Communicative Efforts of Words and Music in Samuel Beckett’s Words and Music 63 Brynhildur Boyce 5 Atonality and Eternity: The Musical Language of Comédie 85 David Foster 6 Richard Rijnvos and Rough for Radio I: Towards the Enrichment of an Impoverished Text 107 Kevin Branigan 7 Articulated Arrhythmia: Samuel Beckett’s Shorter Plays 119 Maria Ristani 8 Describing Arabesques: Beckett and Dance 137 Thomas Mansell 9 Not I for Solo Piano: Beckett’s Text as Music 155 Paul Rhys vi Contents 10 The Next Ten Minutes: Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett 171 Matthew Goulish 11 Beckett’s Apertures and Overtures 187 Mary Bryden 12 Ohio Impromptu: Reading Blanchot, Hearing Beckett 199 Sara Jane Bailes 13 FOURSOME 215 Christof Migone 14 Music in Beckett’s Nacht und Träume: Vocality and Imagination 233 Catherine Laws Select Bibliography 255 Select Discography 273 Index 275 List of Figures 5.1 Still from Samuel Beckett and Marin Karmitz, Comédie, 1966. 35mm film transferred to DVD; 18.43 mins. Courtesy Marin Karmitz. 90 5.2 Still from Samuel Beckett and Marin Karmitz, Comédie, 1966. 35mm film transferred to DVD;18.43 mins. Courtesy Marin Karmitz. 95 9.1 Interpretation of a section of Beckett’s text for Not I 158 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Music Examples 9.1 Paul Rhys, Not I, bars 335–6 160 9.2 Paul Rhys, Not I, bar 303 160 9.3 Paul Rhys, Not I, bar 367 160 9.4 Paul Rhys, Not I, bar 31 161 9.5 Paul Rhys, Not I, bars 108–9 162 9.6 The all-interval series 163 9.7 Twelve trichords drawn from the series 163 9.8 Progressions of twelve-note chords 163 9.9 Paul Rhys, Not I, bars 337–40 163 9.10 Harmony for memory flashbacks 165 14.1 Schubert, ‘Nacht und Träume’, melody 247 14.2 Schubert, ‘Nacht und Träume’, bars 21–7 (excerpt used by Beckett without accompaniment) 248 14.3 Schubert, ‘Nacht und Träume’, bars 15–19 249
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