A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess

by Paul Phillips

Book Overview

A Clockwork Counterpoint is the first book to examine the musical side of Anthony Burgess, an astonishingly prolific, underrated and talented composer, revealing how his lifelong involvement in music is an essential key toward understanding his life and work.

Whether explaining the sonata form structure of A Clockwork Orange and the musical underpinnings of dozens of his other novels, his distinctive views on the interrelationship between music...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719072050
• ISBN13: 9780719072055
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"