The shock of recognition : the books and music that have inspired me / Barry Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Barry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Politicians--Australia--Biography.

Politicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, [2016]

Summary:

With all his generosity, Barry Jones shares his love of the great literature and music of the world.

Contents:

Cover

About the author

Title Page

Copyright

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

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD VON GLUCK

GIOACHINO ROSSINI, GAETANO DONIZETTI, VINCENZO BELLINI

GEORGES BIZET

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

GIACOMO PUCCINI

LEOŠ JANÁČEK

RICHARD MILLS

THOMAS ADÈS

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

9 CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES AND TYNDALE'S BIBLE

THE CANTERBURY TALES

CHAUCER'S ENGLISH

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

WILLIAM TYNDALE AND THE HOLY BIBLE

INFLUENCES

WILLIAM TYNDALE

10 MONTAIGNE, EXPLORER OF SELF

THEMES

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

SAMUEL JOHNSON

A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

JAMES BOSWELL

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

JOHNSON AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

LAURENCE STERNE

TRISTRAM SHANDY

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

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 &amp

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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ISBN:

1-74176-769-5

OCLC:

1038484273