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'There is a lot in this book to recommend it to Burgess readers. There is even more, I would say, to recommend it to scholars of music. For those interested in the meeting points of music and literature, it is essential reading. It is a deeply personal book, but one that any reader will come away from filled with interesting factoids, and a much better and braver sense of how the written and the heard can come together.'
Manchester review of books
Introduction
This man and music
1 Biographia musicalis
2 A matter of time and space
3 Let’s write a symphony
4 Music and meaning
5 Meaning means language
6 Under the bam
7 Nothing is so beautiful as sprung
8 Re Joyce
9 Contrary tugs
10 Oedipus wrecks
11 Bonaparte in E flat
Appendices
1 Comparison of ‘Blest Pair of Sirens’ and ‘Disharmonious Sisters’ to This man and music
2 Original Prefatory Note from ‘Blest Pair of Sirens’
3 Reviews
4 Excerpt from ‘The Novel as Music’
5 Similar passages in This Man and Music [1982], The Pianoplayers [1986], and Little Wilson and Big God [1986]
6 Correspondence between Hans Keller and Anthony Burgess
Notes