Headaches among the overtones : music in Beckett / Beckett in music / Catheriane Laws.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laws, Catherine, author.

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Faux titre ; 391.

Faux titre ; 391

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Songs and music.

Beckett, Samuel.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Aesthetics.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Harmonics (Music).

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

508 pages : music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction : why Beckett and music?

Music in Beckett

Beckett, proust, and music

Ideas of music in dream of fair to middling women : Beckett and Beethoven 1

Musical haunting in Beckett's ghost trio : Beckett and Beethoven 2

'The fable of one with you in the dark' : the company of schubert in all that fall; Beckett and Schubert 1

Vocality and imagination in Beckett's Nacht und Träume : Beckett and Schubert 2

Beckett in music

Beckett and contemporary music

'Doing it one way and doing it another way' : Morton Feldman's Neither

'Together, dogs!' : Feldman's music for words and music

Beckett in music translation : embodiment and subjectivity in Richard Barrett's : ne songe plus à fuir

Step by step : Beckett and Kurtág

Beckett sources and abbreviations

References

Image credits

Index of works by Beckett

General index.

Notes:

Includes index.

References; pages [461]-494.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9789042037786

9042037784

OCLC:

866937859

Publisher Number:

99956760242