Rough circles consists in its entirety of color reproductions of 8 paintings by William Scott.
Staking out the territory. Viewpoint (1954) ; The Composer speaks (1970) ; Staking out the territory (1973) ; Teachers and pupils (1980)
Finding your own voice. Thoughts on a modern quartet (George Rochberg's String Quartet No. 3) ; May I quote you?
Thinking about composers. Beethoven ; Frank Bridge and The land without music ; Edward Elgar: A personal reflection ; A photograph of Brahms
Memories and tributes. Stravinsky ; Dallapiccola ; Schoenberg 25 years on ; Hans Keller 1919-85 ; Derrick Puffett 1946-96
Rough Circles / illustrations by William Scott.Concert hall essays (1973-78). Life, mortality, music and time (Birtwistle's Triumph of time) ; Falling into the public domain (Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger, Wesendonk Lieder and Siegfried Idyll) ; The honest listener (Stockhausen's Gruppen) ; A philosophical opera (Schoenberg's Moses und Aron) ; An imaginary Andalusia (Ibéria from Debussy's Images) ; Holding a perfect balance (Beethoven's Emperor Concerto) ; The roots of art in life (Brahms's First Symphony) ; Rendering the peasant soul (Stravinsky's Les noces) ; Forces from outside the West (Holst's The Planets) ; After a lost war, comedies (Schoenberg's Serenade) ; Entering the last style (Debussy's Jeux) ; Running faster than the scientist (Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter) ; A furthest point of exploration (Schoenberg's Die glückliche Hand).Chamber music essays (1991-93). Bariolage à la Berg (Berg's String Quartet, Op. 3) ; A very beautiful cat (Ravel's String Quartet in F) ; An inordinate amount of work (Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor) ; The early days of the waltz (Johann Strauss I and Joseph Lanner) ; A last great monument (Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht) ; 255 combinations (Mendelssohn's Octet) ; The world of the scarlet tanager (Dvorák's String Quartet in F, Op. 96)
List of Other Programme Essays
Reviews for the Times Literary Supplement (1999-2006, except 1 (1977)). Arnold Schoenberg ; Leoš̌ Janácek ; Gustav Mahler ; William Walton ; Hector Berlioz ; Edgard Varèse ; Gustav Mahler to Alma ; Michael Tippett ; Igor Stravinsky.
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Staking out the territory : and other writings on music by Hugh Wood. ISBN 9780955608711. Published by Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
