This Man & Music

by Burgess, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781557834898
• ISBN10: 155783489X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Summary

Anthony Burgess was the author of over 50 books, including his best known novel, "A Clockwork Orange." But Burgess always emphasized music as the ruling passion in his creative life. Largely self-taught in music, Burgess composed his first symphony before he was twenty, many years before his first novel, and he was the composer of over 65 musical works. In these deeply insightful meditations, the renowned writer explores the meaning of music, the intention of the composer and the process of composition, and the seemingly elusive relationships between literature and music. Burgess shows how "the process of literary composition are revealed by the writers themselves" and then gathers evidence to understand the "inexplicable magic" of the details of the operation of music - what is music's "intelligibility"? From Shakespeare to the lyric verse of Gerard Manley Hopkins, from the modernists T.S. Eliot and James Joyce to the modern lyricists Lorenz Hart and Stephen Sondheim, Burgess reveals how prose writers have struggled to tap the inherent musicality of their material. This treasured classic, at last back in print, provides a fascinating perspective on the mutually enriching relationship of these two creative arts by a man who mastered them both.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(2)
Biographia Musicalis	11	(30)
A Matter of Time and Space	41	(9)
Let's Write a Symphony	50	(23)
Music and Meaning	73	(11)
Meaning Means Language	84	(12)
Under the Bam	96	(21)
Nothing is so Beautiful as Sprung	117	(17)
Re Joyce	134	(16)
Contrary Tugs	150	(12)
Oedipus Wrecks	162	(18)
Bonaparte in E Flat	180