Writings
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"One is so often misled into thinking that because a man or a woman has embarked on a career like music, that is sufficiently far removed from the avocations of the multitude, he will for that reason be a person of rather more than ordinary interest, of rather more than ordinary force of character, individuality of outlook and independence of judgment. Vain delusion! In most cases, except for the fact that he is a musician he might be anybody, with anybody's ideas about anything, as avid and uncritical a mopper-up of press dope as the generality; and to sum up, with no qualities of mind or personality that make any time passed in his neighbourhood, let alone in his company, anything other than spiritually and morally profitless, a waste, null and void." - Kaikhosru Sorabji, Mi Contra Fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musican, 1947. |
All items in this catalogue are obtainable only from the Sorabji Archive.
As prolific a composer of articles, essays, reviews, letters-to-the-editor and personal correspondence as music, Sorabji contributed much to the world of intelligent, thoughtful, and penetrating criticism on a vast variety of subjects, including, of course, music. His style is as appealing as it is compelling; his wit is irrepressible, his erudition devastating, and his terms of reference as wide-ranging as can be imagined. Jami, Leonardo, St. John of the Cross, Machiavelli, Bach, Pareto, Liszt, Busoni, Guenon, Coomaraswamy, van Dieren, MacDiarmid, Godowsky, Sitwell and Symanowski are some of his idols; cant, humbug, democracy, egalitarianism, systematised mass education, cultural trendiness, sentimentality, liguistic imprecision, obscurantism, received opinion purveyors and busybodies are his bêtes noires.
The Archive's extensive collection of Sorabji's published and unpublished literature is now indexed; items from these and many other files containing writings about him, including performance programme and review material, are issued subject to copyright as A4 single- or double-sided photocopies.
Volumes are supplied as double-sided A4, ring-bound in card covers; all other items are single- or double-sided, unbound. All prices quoted include packing and mailing within the United Kingdom only; surcharges for registered or express mailing and for all non-UK orders are quoted on request.
The Sorabji Archive retains the right to change prices at any time. The ones listed here are not binding.
Published Books and Book Chapters
Around Music
(Unicorn Press, London: 1932)
Copy publication with corrections by Sorabji.
Essay collection, 35 chapters.
Includes annotated index by Marc-André Roberge, 1992.
Price: £35
Mi contra fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician
(Porcupine Press, London: 1947)
Copy publication with corrections by Sorabji.
Essay collection, 30 chapters.
Includes annoted index by Marc-André Roberge, 1992.
Price: £35
Annotated indices to Around Music (1932) and
Mi contra fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician (1947)
First edition.
Marc-André Roberge, 1992.
Price: £9
The Validity of the Aristocratic Principle
(Luzac and Company, London: 1947)
Copy publication with corrections by Sorabji.
Chapter XIII from Art and Thought, pp. 214-218, a 70th birthday tribute to Dr.
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. Edited by K. Bharatha Iyer.
Price: £2
The Greatness of Medtner
(Dennis Dobson, London: 1955)
Copy publication.
A chapter from Nicolas Medtner, pp. 122-132, edited by Richard Holt.
Price: £3
Other Writings
Collected Published Writings, 1914 -
Copy publication.
Two volumes, approx. 1250 pages, unedited.
Vol. 1: Book chapters, articles, essays, notes, and letters-to-the-Editor.
Vol. 2: Reviews and various newspaper items
Price: £80 (set)
Annotated bibliography of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Collected Published Writings
First edition.
Covers items from five serial publications. An edition covering the entire collected published writings
is in preparation and will replace the present volume.
Marc-André Roberge, 1993.
Price: £15
Index of proper names to be found in the complete published writings of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
First edition.
George Alexander Ross, 1994.
Price: £35
List of performances and broadcasts of musical works by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Marc-André Roberge and Alistair Hinton. 1995-, updated by the Archive.
Price: £5
Selected Items
Unbound per side, from £0.20.
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