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COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
CONTENTS
1. LIFE OF MY MIND
PART I MUSIC, THE FOOD OF LOVE
2. GREAT MUSIC: SIXTY WORKS
3. EARLY AND BAROQUE MUSIC
FROM HILDEGARD TO BYRD
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
PÉROTIN
GUILLAUME DUFAY
JOHANNES OCKEGHEM
JOSQUIN DESPRÉZ
THOMAS TALLIS
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA
WILLIAM BYRD
BAROQUE
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
HENRY PURCELL
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN
ANTONIO VIVALDI
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
GEORG FRIDERIC HÄNDEL
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: POET, MYSTIC, TRANSCENDENTAL FORCE
BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
VIOLIN CONCERTOS
KEYBOARD CONCERTOS
ORCHESTRAL SUITES
THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
ORGAN WORKS
PARTITAS AND SONATAS
SUITES FOR CELLO
THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER
CHORAL WORKS
CANTATAS
ST MATTHEW AND ST JOHN PASSION
MASS IN B MINOR
4. CLASSICAL AND ROMANTIC MUSIC
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
ROMANTIC
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
FRANZ SCHUBERT
HECTOR BERLIOZ
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
ROBERT SCHUMANN
FRANZ LISZT
RICHARD WAGNER
GIUSEPPE VERDI
ANTON BRUCKNER
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
PYOTR ILYCH TCHAIKOVSKY
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
EDVARD GRIEG
EDWARD ELGAR
FREDERICK DELIUS
HUGO WOLF
RICHARD STRAUSS
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
5. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
MODERN
GUSTAV MAHLER
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
JEAN SIBELIUS
CARL NIELSEN
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
GUSTAV HOLST
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
ALBAN BERG
ANTON WEBERN
CHARLES IVES
IGOR STRAVINSKY
MAURICE RAVEL
BÉLA BARTÓK
FRANK MARTIN
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
PAUL HINDEMITH
ERICH KORNGOLD
ARNOLD BAX
ARTHUR BLISS
AARON COPLAND
WILLIAM WALTON
MICHAEL TIPPETT
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
RODION SHCHEDRIN
HENRYK GÓRECKI
CONTEMPORARY
ELLIOTT CARTER
JOHN CAGE
CONLON NANCARROW
IANNIS XENAKIS
GYÖRGY LIGETI
PIERRE BOULEZ
LUCIANO BERIO
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
GEORGE CRUMB
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
ARVO PÄRT
PHILIP GLASS
JOHN ADAMS
AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS
FELIX WERDER
GEORGE DREYFUS
PETER SCULTHORPE
RICHARD MEALE
CHRIS DENCH
ANDREW FORD
ELENA KATS-CHERNIN
BRETT DEAN
6. OPERA
JACOPO PERI
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
HENRY PURCELL
GEORG FRIDERIC HÄNDEL
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD VON GLUCK
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
GIOACHINO ROSSINI, GAETANO DONIZETTI, VINCENZO BELLINI
HECTOR BERLIOZ
RICHARD WAGNER
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
GEORGES BIZET
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MAURICE RAVEL
RICHARD STRAUSS
LEOŠ JANÁČEK
ALBAN BERG
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
JOHN ADAMS
RICHARD MILLS
THOMAS ADÉS
PART II GREAT LITERATURE
7. FROM HOMER TO DANTE
HOMER: THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY
‘THE HOMERIC QUESTION’
THE ILIAD
FORCE: HOMER’S RELEVANCE FOR OUR TIMES
WIDER READING ON THE ILIAD
THE ODYSSEY
TRANSLATIONS, LANGUAGE AND STYLE
VIRGIL: THE AENEID
INFLUENCES AND TRANSLATIONS
DANTE: THE DIVINE COMEDY
INFERNO
PURGATORIO
PARADISO
TRANSLATIONS
8. LADY MURASAKI AND THE TALE OF GENJI
THE TALE OF GENJI
TRANSLATIONS
9. CHAUCER’S CANTERBURY TALES AND TYNDALE’S BIBLE
THE CANTERBURY TALES
CHAUCER’S ENGLISH
TRANSLATIONS
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
WILLIAM TYNDALE AND THE HOLY BIBLE
INFLUENCES
WILLIAM TYNDALE
TRANSLATIONS
10. MONTAIGNE, EXPLORER OF SELF
INFLUENCES
THEMES
TRANSLATIONS
11. DON QUIXOTE
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
DON QUIXOTE
CERVANTES AND SHAKESPEARE
TRANSLATIONS AND INFLUENCES
12. SHAKESPEARE AS NOVELIST
HAMLET
OTHELLO
KING LEAR
MACBETH
CORIOLANUS
SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IN CONTEXT
SHAKESPEARE’S LIFE
13. FIVE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ORIGINALS
JONATHAN SWIFT
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
INFLUENCES
SAMUEL JOHNSON
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
INFLUENCES
JAMES BOSWELL
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.
JOHNSON AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
LAURENCE STERNE
TRISTRAM SHANDY
INFLUENCES
EDWARD GIBBON
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
14. FRENCH MASTERS
STENDHAL
LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR / THE RED AND THE BLACK
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
LA COMÉDIE HUMAINE
LE PÈRE GORIOT / OLD MAN GORIOT
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PÈRE
LES TROIS MOUSQUETAIRES / THE THREE MUSKETEERS
GEORGE SAND
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
MADAME BOVARY
INFLUENCES
VICTOR HUGO
LES MISÉRABLES
JULES VERNE
ÉMILE ZOLA
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
ANDRÉ GIDE
COLETTE
JEAN COCTEAU
LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE
GEORGES SIMENON
ANDRÉ MALRAUX
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
ALBERT CAMUS
L’ÉTRANGER / THE OUTSIDER OR THE STRANGER
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
GEORGES PEREC
J.M.G. LE CLÉZIO
(JEAN) PATRICK MODIANO
15. PROUST’S IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME
MARCEL PROUST
À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU
TRANSLATION, RECEPTION AND SIGNIFICANCE
16. THE GREAT RUSSIANS
ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN
NIKOLAI GOGOL
IVAN TURGENEV
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
LEV (LEO) TOLSTOY
WAR AND PEACE
ANNA KARENINA
ANTON CHEKHOV
MAKSIM GORKI
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
BORIS PASTERNAK
VASILY GROSSMAN
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
17. EXILES
JAMES JOYCE
ULYSSES
FINNEGANS WAKE
SAMUEL BECKETT
THE UNNAMABLE
WAITING FOR GODOT
FRANZ KAFKA
THE TRIAL
ROBERT MUSIL
THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
LOLITA
PATRICK WHITE
VOSS
V.S. NAIPAUL
A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS
THOMAS PYNCHON
GRAVITY’S RAINBOW
J.M. COETZEE
LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K.
DIARY OF A BAD YEAR
W.G. SEBALD
AUSTERLITZ
NOW, VOYAGER
APPENDIX: A GUIDE FOR MUSIC CONSUMERS
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