Catalogue raisonne as memoir : a composer's life / / Dominick Argento.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Argento, Dominick.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xviii, 230 p., [8] p. of plates :; ill.
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

Songs about Spring -- Sicilian limes -- Divertimento for piano and strings -- The resurrection of Don Juan -- Ode to the west wind -- String quartet -- The boor -- Six Elizabethan songs -- Colonel Jonathan the saint -- Christopher Sly -- The masque of angels -- Royal invitation, or homage to the Queen of Tonga -- Variations for orchestra (the mask of night) -- The revelation of Saint John the divine -- The shoemakers' holiday -- Letters from composers -- A nation of cowslips -- Bravo Mozart! -- Tria Carmina Paschalia -- Postcard from Morocco -- A ring of time -- Jonah and the whale -- To be sung upon the water -- A water bird talk -- From the diary of Virginia Woolf -- The voyage of Edgar Allan Poe -- In praise of music -- Miss Havisham's fire -- A thanksgiving to God, for his house -- Let all the world in every corner sing -- Miss Havisham's wedding night -- Peter Quince at the Clavier -- Fire variations -- I hate and I love (Odi et Amo) -- The Andree exposition -- Prelude for Easter dawning -- Casa Guidi -- Casonova's homecoming -- Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe -- Capriccio for clarinet and orchestra -- Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi) -- The aspern papers -- Easter day -- The angel Israfil -- A Toccata of Galuppi's -- Everyone sang -- The dream of Valentino -- To God "in memoriam M. B. 1994" -- Valentino dances -- Spirituals and Swedish chorales -- Miss Havisham's fire (revised) -- Valse triste -- Walden pond -- A few words about Chekhov -- Reverie (reflections on a hymn tune) -- Miss manners on music -- The vision -- The Bremen town musicians -- Sonnet 64 (in memoriam 9/11/01) -- Orpheus -- From a composer's journal -- Discography.