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Words and Music (play), the Glossary

Samuel Beckett wrote the radio play, Words and Music between November and December 1961.^[1]

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1962 plays
Plays by Samuel Beckett
Works originally published in Evergreen Review

Al Alvarez

Alfred Alvarez (5 August 1929 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.

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In music, an aria (arie,; arias in common usage; diminutive form: arietta,;: ariette; in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment, normally part of a larger work.

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Ariel (The Tempest)

Ariel is a spirit who appears in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Third Programme

The BBC Third Programme was a national radio station produced and broadcast from 1946 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 3.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Caliban

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

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Cascando

Cascando is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. Words and Music (play) and Cascando are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Châtelain

Châtelain (from castellanus, derived from castellum; pertaining to a castle, fortress. Middle English: castellan from Anglo-Norman: castellain and Old French: castelain) was originally the French title for the keeper of a castle.

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Club (weapon)

A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or impact weapon) is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon since prehistory.

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Deirdre Bair

Deirdre Bair (June 21, 1935 – April 17, 2020) was an American literary scholar and biographer.

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Embers

Embers is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. Words and Music (play) and Embers are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.

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Endgame (play)

Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. Words and Music (play) and Endgame (play) are plays by Samuel Beckett.

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Euphemism

A euphemism is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant.

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Evergreen Review

The Evergreen Review is a U.S.-based literary magazine.

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Existence

Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a family of views and forms of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.

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Feudalism

Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.

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Folly

In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.

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Fugue

In classical music, a fugue is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches), which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition.

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Ghost Trio (play)

Ghost Trio is a television play, written in English by Samuel Beckett. Words and Music (play) and Ghost Trio (play) are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.

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Humphrey Searle

Humphrey Searle (26 August 1915 – 12 May 1982) was an English composer and writer on music.

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Improvisation

Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found.

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Jester

A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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John S. Beckett

John Stewart Beckett (5 February 1927 – 5 February 2007) was an Irish musician, composer and conductor; cousin of the famous writer and playwright Samuel Beckett.

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Katharine Worth

Katharine Worth (4 August 192228 January 2015) was a British academic, Professor of Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape is a 1958 one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. Words and Music (play) and Krapp's Last Tape are plays by Samuel Beckett, theatre of the Absurd and works originally published in Evergreen Review.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist.

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Les Éditions de Minuit

Les Éditions de Minuit (Midnight Press) is a French publishing house.

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Lilium

Lilium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large and often prominent flowers.

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Malvolio

Malvolio is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, or What You Will.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Melody

A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Mind

The mind is what thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills, encompassing the totality of mental phenomena.

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Minstrel

A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe.

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Monologue

In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.

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Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer.

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Motif (narrative)

A motif is any distinctive feature or idea that recurs across a story; often, it helps develop other narrative elements such as theme or mood.

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Ohio Impromptu

Ohio Impromptu is a "playlet" by Samuel Beckett. Words and Music (play) and Ohio Impromptu are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.

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Old King Cole

"Old King Cole" is a British nursery rhyme first attested in 1708.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Orgasm

Orgasm (from Greek ὀργασμός,; "excitement, swelling") or sexual climax (or simply climax) is the sudden discharge of accumulated sexual excitement during the sexual response cycle, resulting in rhythmic, involuntary muscular contractions in the pelvic region characterized by sexual pleasure.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Patrick Magee (actor)

Patrick George Magee (né McGee, 31 March 1922 – 14 August 1982) was a Northern Irish actor.

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Person

A person (people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.

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Phrase (music)

In music theory, a phrase (φράση) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections.

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Plainsong

Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French plain-chant; cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church.

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Polonius

Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

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Prospero

Prospero is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

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Psychology of self

The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive, conative or affective representation of one's identity, or the subject of experience.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.

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Rough for Radio II

Rough for Radio II is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. Words and Music (play) and Rough for Radio II are plays by Samuel Beckett and theatre of the Absurd.

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Rye

Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.

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Serialism

In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.

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Sloth (deadly sin)

Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins in Catholic teachings.

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Sprechgesang

Sprechgesang ("spoken singing") and Sprechstimme ("spoken voice"), more commonly known as speak-singing in English, are expressionist musical vocal techniques between singing and speaking.

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Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rome Opera House) is an opera house in Rome, Italy.

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Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist.

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Tragic hero

A tragic hero (or tragic heroine if they are female) is the protagonist of a tragedy.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.

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Uterus

The uterus (from Latin uterus,: uteri) or womb is the organ in the reproductive system of most female mammals, including humans, that accommodates the embryonic and fetal development of one or more embryos until birth.

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Vivian Mercier

Vivian Mercier (1919 – 4 November 1989) was an Irish literary critic.

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Voice (grammar)

In grammar, the voice (aka diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.). When the subject is the agent or doer of the action, the verb is in the active voice.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_and_Music_(play)

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Words and Music (play), the Glossary

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1962 plays

Plays by Samuel Beckett

Works originally published in Evergreen Review

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