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Contents
- Part I . From Manchester to Hoy, 1934-1970:
- 1. Maxwell Davies, composer;
- 2. Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 1;
- 3. Webern: Variations for Piano, Op. 27;
- 4. Nikos Skalkottas: Sonatina and Tender Melody for Cello and Piano;
- 5. The young British composer;
- 6. Indian classical music;
- 7. Musical life in Italy;
- 8. Problems of a British composer today;
- 9. St Michael - Sonata for Seventeen Wind Instruments;
- 10. Prolation;
- 11. Realizing the 'aural vision' of Prolation;
- 12. Composing music for school use;
- 13. First Fantasia on an 'In Nomine' of John Taverner;
- 14. Sinfonia;
- 15. Echoes of the past in the present;
- 16. In defence of compositional technique;
- 17. The young composer in America;
- 18. Second Fantasia on John Taverner's 'In Nomine';
- 19. Seven In Nomine;
- 20. Where our colleges fail;
- 21. Musical innovation;
- 22. Antechrist;
- 23. Sets or series;
- 24. Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie;
- 25. Manipulating time and immoral realizations;
- 26. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire;
- 27. St Thomas Wake;
- 28. Worldes Blis;
- 29. Eight Songs for a Mad King;
- 30. Vesalii Icones;
- 31. The orchestra is becoming a museum;
- 32. Revelation and Fall;
- 33. Taverner;
- Part II . From Hoy to Sanday, 1971-1997:
- 34. Two early Orkney works;
- 35. 'Pax Orcadiensis';
- 36. Benjamin Britten: a tribute;
- 37. Symphony;
- 38. Safer 'out' than in;
- 39. The Lighthouse;
- 40. Symphony No. 2;
- 41. Michael Tippett: a tribute;
- 42. Darkening our civilization;
- 43. St Magnus festival - one decade on;
- 44. Symphony No. 4;
- 45. The Arts Council and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra;
- 46. London's needs for all its orchestras;
- 47. Cheltenham Music Festival: a tribute;
- 48. Remembering Darmstadt;
- 49. Symphony No. 6;
- 50. The late Strathclyde Concertos;
- 51. The influence of Aboriginal music;
- 52. Renaissance architecture, symphonic precedents and historical resonances;
- 53. Notes from a cold climate;
- Part III . Sanday, 1998-2016:
- 54. A Roma, con amore;
- 55. Mr Emmet Takes a Walk;
- 56. Music to our ears;
- 57. A composer's point of view (I): on music, mathematics and magic squares;
- 58. A composer's point of view (II): on parody,
- references and meaning;
- 59. A composer's point of view (III): on religion;
- 60. A composer's point of view (IV): on the composition of 'light' and 'serious' music;
- 61. Symphony No. 7;
- 62. The Naxos Quartets;
- 63. Studying with Petrassi;
- 64. Master of the Queen's music;
- 65. Will serious music become extinct?;
- 66. A disorientating ruckus;
- 67. Bearing witness;
- 68. A conducting lesson with Leonard Bernstein;
- 69. Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!);
- 70. Beacons of light: in praise of music's benevolence;
- 71. A symphony for troubled times;
- 72. In search of Borromini;
- 73. Indivisible parameters and spirit-stirring amalgams;
- 74. Calling us to our sleep.