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This essay explores the freedom that Beckett allowed for musical collaborations, a consideration that often surprises scholars given the notorious degree of control that he exerted on the stage. Specifically, it addresses the concept of a 'text-music tandem' in the 1987 composition that Morton Feldman wrote for Beckett's 'Words and Music' (1961).
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This essay offers an in-depth musicological and literary-critical analysis of the collaboration of two major artists of the twentieth century.
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This page is a summary of: Samuel Beckett and Morton Feldman's ‘Text-Music Tandem’ in Words and Music, Modernist Cultures, May 2013, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/mod.2013.0053.
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