A clockwork counterpoint
Subtitle: the music and literature of Anthony Burgess
By: Paul Phillips
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester [UK]; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780719072048
Subjects: Werk; Tonträger; Criticism and interpretation; Film; Music and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-428) and indexes.

"Discography": p. [429]-430.

"Filmography": p. [431]-432.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. The truly great artistic moment; title: Beginnings. Boyhood (1917-35) ; Burgeoning composer (1935-40); title: Emergent author. War : Britain and Gibraltar (1940-46) ; Peace : Brinsford Lodge, Bamber Bridge, and Banbury (1946-54) ; Malaya (1954-57) ; Brunei (1958-59) ; "Terminal" year (1959-60) ; Nasty little shockers ; Eschatological escapades ; Shakespeare in love ; Pure music; title: Celebrity novelist. Family affairs ; Kubrick the sinny vick ; Ancient evenings ; Bonaparte con brio; title: Resurgent composer. Symphonic Shakespeare ; The old Joanna ; The love song of F.X. Enderby ; Roman carnival ; Knickerbocker holiday ; Poetic license ; Grace notes ; Ode to Joyce ; Nuns and lovers ; Blest pair of sirens ; Alex in Eden ; The sad suck-and-blow ; One-handed clavichord ; Wind and son ; Commemorations ; Manchester and Mozart united; title: Endings. Confessions and conclusions; title: Epilogue. Opus posthumous (1993-2009); title: Appendix. List of music compositions ; Song texts and poems ; Prologue to A clockwork orange.