Words and Music: Camus, Beckett, Cage, Gould
- ISBN-10
- 1433108364
- ISBN-13
- 9781433108365
- Series
- Words and Music
- Category
- European fiction
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Author
- Deborah Fillerup Weagel
Description
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.
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