Music in Words and Music
| Autor: | Catherine Laws |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui. 11:279-290 |
| ISSN: | 1875-7405 0927-3131 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/18757405-01101034 |
| Popis: | In Words and Music, as in Cascando, Beckett deploys music as an actual 'char acter', cast against "Words" in an exploration of their different capacities for generating significance either separately or when working together. The radio play was originally commissioned by the BBC, and this 1962 production used music especially composed by the author's cousin John Beckett. However, the score was then withdrawn. A later production by Katharine Worth (recorded in 1973) commissioned music from Humphrey Searle, but the most publicly avail able versions - there are currently two different recordings available - use music written by Morton Feldman in 1986-87 at the request of Everett Frost. The concerns of Words and Music are clearly related to Beckett's general preoccupation with the limitations of the expressive powers of language. However, the fact that the music could not be composed by Beckett and therefore changes with the individual composer involved in each produc tion has always rendered the word-music opposition, and hence the play as a whole, somewhat problematic. Beckett gives some instructions to the |
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