PAUL PHILLIPS
Writings
Book (editor)
Reviews & Commendations
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The Spectator (London), 3 February 2024, pp. 40-41. Nicholas Lezard, "A lovable show-off"
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Morning Star (London), 16 February 2024. Jonathan Taylor, "Dangerous vagueness"
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The Tablet (London), 22 February 2024. Michael Glover, "Larger than life"
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TLS – Times Literary Supplement (London), 12 April 2024, pp. 22-23. Paul Griffiths, "Two earthly powers"
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Shiny New Books (UK). Rob Spence, "Anthony Burgess, The Devil Prefers Mozart"
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The Washington Free Beacon (Washington, DC), 19 May 2024. Dominic Green, "The Many Notes of Anthony Burgess"
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Books: L'actualité à la lumière des livres (Paris), September 2024. Michel André, "The musician novelist" (Le romancier musicien)
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Financial Times (London), 20 June 2024. Richard Fairman. "Best summer books of 2024: Classical music"
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Engelsberg Ideas (London), 18 December 2024. Richard Bratby, "Books of the Year 2024"
Book (sole author)
A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess
Manchester University Press, 2010; paperback edition, 2014, distributed by Oxford University Press
Reviews
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Literary Review (London), February 2011, pp. 47-48. Kevin Jackson, "Trebles All Round"
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The Providence Sunday Journal (Providence, RI), 11 September 2011. Samuel Coale, "Burgess' music as impressive as his novels"
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Studies in the Novel (Denton, TX: University of North Texas), Vol. 43, No. 4 (winter 2011), pp. 515-517. Thomas Horan
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Listen Magazine (New York, NY), Fall 2012, p. 92. Daniel Felsenfeld. "This Man and Music: A Clockwork Counterpoint"
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New Music Connoisseur (New York, NY), Vol. 20, Issue 2 – Fall/Winter 2012, pp. 12-15. Mark N. Grant
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Project Muse (Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press). Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Spring 2013, pp 95-99. Carly Eloise Rowley
Books (contributor)




Portraits of the Artist in A Clockwork Orange
Presses de l'Université d'Angers, 2003. E. Vernadakis, G. Woodroffe, editors. Chapter 8: "Alex in Eden: Prologue and Music to Burgess's Dramatisation of A Clockwork Orange" (pp. 113-129)
Anthony Burgess and Modernity
Manchester University Press, 2008. Alan R. Roughley, editor. Chapter 4: "The postmodernist always swings nice" (pp. 79-94)
Anthony Burgess: Music in Literature and Literature in Music
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. Marc Jeannin, editor. Chapter 1: "That Man and Music: Ten Reasons Why Anthony Burgess's Music Matters" (pp. 7-19)
Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange
W. W. Norton, 2010. "Burgess and Music" (pp. 236-245)
Marlowe, Shakespeare, Burgess: Anthony Burgess and his Elizabethan Affiliations
Presses de l'Université d'Angers, 2012. Graham Woodroffe, editor. "Mr A.B. and Mr W.S.: Burgess's Shakespeare Ballet" (pp. 127-134). This book is dedicated to Marie-Laure Agrapart and Paul Phillips in honor of their collaboration on the first staged production of Mr. W.S.
Anthony Burgess and France
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. Marc Jeannin, editor. "Musique pour la France d'Antoine Bourgeois" (pp. 27-39)
Anthony Burgess et la France
Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2019. Marc Jeannin, editor. "Musique pour la France d'Antoine Bourgeois" (pp. 27-39)
Articles
"The Enigma of Variations: A Study of Stravinsky's Final Work for Orchestra", Music Analysis (March 1984)
"Young Music for Young Players", Symphony Magazine (August-September 1986)
"The Music of Anthony Burgess", Anthony Burgess Newsletter (Vol. 1, No. 1, July 1999)
"Symphonic Shakespeare", Anthony Burgess Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2, March 2000
"Anthony Burgess" entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan, 2001), Vol. 4, pp. 614-615
"That Was Me", The Journal of Music, Vol. 2, No. 2, June/July 2010 (An Spidéal, Conamara, Co. Galway, Ireland), pp. 10-13