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A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess (review) by Thomas Horan is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess (review) about?
Paul Phillips's A Clockwork Counterpoint provides a comprehensive overview of the music and writings of Anthony Burgess. Phillips argues that composing classical music was Burgess's true labor of love, since he was only rarely compensated for his music, most of which went unperformed during his lifetime. Phillips, a conductor himself, was given unprecedented access to Burgess's musical scores by Burgess's widow, and he is clearly an expert in this subject matter. Apart from cataloguing the wide range of musical forms and genres in which Burgess worked, Phillips explores the ways Burgess's love for music shaped his writing, distinguishing him from contemporary writers/composers such as Paul Bowles and Bruce Montgomery, who regarded writing and composing as separate pursuits. According to Phillips, Burgess constantly sought ways to unite both halves of his creative personality, either by setting words of his favorite authors to music, incorporating musical characters and themes into his books, or, more radically, assigning musical structure to fiction, whether this meant writing novels in sonata form, or, as in the case of Napoleon Symphony, modeling the form and character of a novel
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- Author
- Thomas Horan
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)