A Clockwork Counterpoint The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess

by Phillips, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780719072048
• ISBN10: 0719072042
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

A Clockwork Counterpoint is the first book to examine the musical side of Anthony Burgess, an astonishingly prolific and talented composer, revealing how his lifelong involvement in music is an essential key toward understanding his life and work. Whether explaining the sonata form structure of A Clockwork Orange and the musical underpinnings of dozens of his other novels, his distinctive views on the interrelationship between music and literature, music's role in his ties to his father and wives, or what his compositions tell us about his troubled relationship with his son, A Clockwork Counterpoint illuminates Burgess's dual creative life, providing the first complete portrait of a prodigious artist whose musical accomplishments have remained largely unknown until now.

Author Biography

Paul Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Music and Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music at Brown University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xii
Notes on the Text	p. xiv
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Prologue	p. 1
The Truly Great Artistic Moment	p. 3
Beginnings	p. 7
Boyhood (1917-35)	p. 9
Burgeoning Composer (1935-40)	p. 23
Emergent Author	p. 33
War: Britain and Gibraltar (1940-46)	p. 35
Peace: Brinsford Lodge, Bamber Bridge, and Banbury (1946-54)	p. 49
Malaya (1954-57)	p. 63
Brunei (1958-59)	p. 68
"Terminal" Year (1959-60)	p. 74
Nasty Little Shockers	p. 80
Eschatological Escapades	p. 95
Shakespeare in Love	p. 107
Pure Music	p. 114
Celebrity Novelist	p. 123
Family Affairs	p. 125
Kubrick the Sinny Veck	p. 143
Ancient Evenings	p. 151
Bonaparte Con Brio	p. 159
Resurgent Composer	p. 183
Symphonic Shakespeare	p. 185
The Old Joanna	p. 198
The Love Song of F. X. Enderby	p. 214
Roman Carnival	p. 228
Knickerbocker Holiday	p. 237
Poetic License	p. 247
Grace Notes	p. 254
Odes to Joyce	p. 264
Nuns and Lovers	p. 283
Blest Pair of Sirens	p. 292
Alex in Eden	p. 302
The Sad Suck-and-Blow	p. 314
One-Handed Clavichord	p. 322
Wind and Son	p. 331
Commemorations	p. 345
Manchester and Mozart United	p. 355
Endings	p. 363
Confessions and Conclusions	p. 365
Epilogue	p. 375
Opus Posthumous (1993-2009)	p. 377
List of Music Compositions	p. 385
Song Texts and Poems	p. 403
Prologue to A Clockwork Orange	p. 409
Bibliography	p. 413
Discography	p. 429
Filmography	p. 431
Acknowledgments	p. 433
Music Index	p. 437
Literature Index	p. 442
General Index	p. 446
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