Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements
Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements

Author: Anthony Burgess

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0393350169

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Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write. A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed—in liberty, equality, and fraternity—from Beethoven’s Third “Eroica” Symphony, in this rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony Burgess has pulled out all the stops for a virtuoso performance that is literary, historical, and musical.

The First Four Notes
The First Four Notes

Author: Matthew Guerrieri

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0804170193

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A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year This revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written—and its famous four-note opening. Reaching back before Beethoven’s time, Matthew Guerrieri uncovers premonitions of the opening notes in the rhythms of ancient Greek poetry and the music of the French Revolution. He discusses the Fifth’s impact when it premiered, tracing the artistic, philosophical, and political reverberations across Europe to China, Russia, and the United States, from Romanticism to ring tones, from propaganda to pop. This fascinating piece of musical detective work is a treat for music lovers of every stripe.

The Ninth
The Ninth

Author: Harvey Sachs

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0812969073

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The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and joy was so unorthodox that it amazed and confused listeners at its unveiling—yet it became a standard for subsequent generations of creative artists, and its composer came to embody the Romantic cult of genius. In this unconventional, provocative book, Beethoven’s masterwork becomes a prism through which we may view the politics, aesthetics, and overall climate of the era. Part biography, part history, part memoir, The Ninth brilliantly explores the intricacies of Beethoven’s last symphony—how it brought forth the power of the individual while celebrating the collective spirit of humanity.

Music in the Words
Music in the Words

Author: Alan Frederick Shockley

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780754661993

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Can a novel follow the form of a symphony and still succeed as a novel? Can musical counterpoint be mimicked by words on a page? Alan Shockley begins looking for answers by examining music's appeal for novelists and exploring two brief works, a prose fugue by Douglas Hofstadter, and a short story by Anthony Burgess modeled after a Mozart symphony. Analyses of three large, emblematic attempts at musical writing follow along with discussions on two recent brief novels. From the perspective of a composer, Shockley offers the reader fresh tools for approaching these dense and often daunting texts.

New York
New York

Author: Anthony Burgess

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13:

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Discusses the history of New York City and describes the city, its people and their way of life today.

The Cambridge Companion to the Eroica Symphony
The Cambridge Companion to the Eroica Symphony

Author: Nancy November

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-06-25

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1108529860

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This Companion provides orientation for those embarking on the study of Beethoven's much-discussed Eroica Symphony, as well as providing fresh insights that will appeal to scholars, performers and listeners more generally. The book addresses the symphony in three thematic sections, on genesis, analysis and reception history, and covers key topics including political context, dedication, sources of the Symphony's inspiration, 'heroism' and the idea of a 'watershed' work. Critical studies of writings and analyses from Beethoven's day to ours are included, as well as a range of other relevant responses to the work, including compositions, recordings, images and film. The Companion draws on previous literature but also illuminates the work from new angles, based on new evidence and a range of approaches by twelve leading scholars in Beethoven research.

Symphony
Symphony

Author: Charles Grant

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780812562835

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Soon after a small-town preacher discovers that he has the power to heal, he realizes that he will have to use his gift to counter the effects of a possible demon who drives into town, marking the beginning of the Apocalypse. Reprint.

Joysprick
Joysprick

Author: Anthony Burgess

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Mozart and the Wolf Gang
Mozart and the Wolf Gang

Author: Anthony Burgess

Publisher: Irwell Edition of the Works of

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781526132727

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Mozart and the Wolf Gang is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of Anthony Burgess's fictions.. With its sizzying swirl of formal and thematic invention, this slim book may strike one as something even more impossible that any of Burgess' earlier tours de force.