Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone

1968-76

Malta - Bracciano - Rome

  • * Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand, trans. Burgess) (incidental music for chamber ensemble) 1971 {Stratford Festival, Canada}
  • Southern City: overture for large orchestra TMM 1971
  • Music for an Italian production of The Entertainer (John Osborne) TMM 1971
  • Roman Wall: march for orchestra TMM 1971
  • Suite for piano duet TMM 1972
  • * Spring Rondel. (Anon.; Pervigilium Veneris; Charles D'Orléans, transl. Burgess) (SATB chorus) n.d.
  • * Bethlehem Palmtrees (Lope de Vega, trans. Ezra Pound) (SATB chorus) [TMM 1972]
  • * Moses the Lawgiver (orchestral score to accompany the television series) 1973
  • Faunal Noon for harmonica and guitar TMM 1973
  • Sonatina in E minor for harmonica and guitar TMM 1973
  • * Sinfonie (notebook, marked "reproduced from memory" and dated 1974, of piano reductions of three orchestra works: Sinfonia (No. 1 - 1935) complete, 4 mvts Chaconne (1943) complete, 1 mvt Sinfonia (No. 2 - 1944) mvt. I complete; mvt. 2 incomplete
  • * Symphony No. 3 in C (orchestra) 1974-75
  • The Eyes of New York, music for a film (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and keyboard) TMM 1975
  • * Rome in the Rain (solo piano and orchestra) [1976]

Notes

Works that are not asterisked no longer exist or their location is unknown. Most of these are mentioned by Burgess himself in his writings.

TMM = This Man and Music; CC = Contemporary Composers; LW = Little Wilson and Big God; VB = A Vision of Battlements

Musical scores exist of the works that are asterisked. All of these are located at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, unless otherwise indicated. Locations are indicated within { } brackets.

{private} = manuscript is in a private collection or owned by an individual

Dates of composition, where given, are the dates signed by Burgess on the manuscript.

Dates in brackets are not signed on the manuscript by Burgess but are otherwise known or estimated.

n.d. = no date

Paul Phillips, May 5th 2004

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