Acknowledgement is made to EMI Music Publishing Australia for permission to quote from E. Harold Davies’ introduction to the music book The Children’s Bach.

The lines on page 140 are from To Penshurst by Ben Jonson.

I am happy to acknowledge the generous support given to me by the Literature Board of the Australia Council during the year it took me to write this book. Some of it was written during a term I spent as a writer-in-residence at Griffith University in Queensland.