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This thesis aims to make clear how elaborately Samuel Beckett utilizes the qualities of music in his plays. His interest in music at an early age results from the feeling that the expressiveness of language is quite restrictive and limited. Such an interest is well established in the transformational structure of his works. Especially, as a solution to this linguistic crisis, his plays tend to employ musical qualities in the pursuit of structural accuracy. This quest is illustrated in his serial music works using these features and indicates a new direction of our musical understanding. His early novels, poems, and plays serve as the evidence of my point. Beckett's later plays, highlighted by silence, pause, and linguistic compression, show his greater interest in visual images as well as auditive qualities. Ghost Trio, in particular, a successful embodiment of Beethoven's musical piece, explores how music can function in a dramatic work to bring about desirable effect.