References


This is a partial catalog of references that provide more information in relation to Sorabji and his work. An excellent starting point, from which much of this list was drawn, is Sorabji: A Critical Celebration, edited by Paul Rapoport.

 al-Nafzawi ('Umar ibn Muhammad, al-Nafzawi): The Perfumed Garden, translated 
 by Richard F. Burton, introduced by Alan Hull Walton.  London: Neville Spearman, 1963.
 
 Allen, Warren Dwight: Philosophies of Music History.  New York: American Book
 Company, 1939.
 
 Anon.: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [Arabian Nights], translated by 
 Richard Francis Burton (16 vols.).  Benares: privately printed, 1885 (vols. 1-10),
 1886-88 (vols. 11-16).
 
 Anon.: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night [Arabian Nights], translated
 by John Payne (13 vols.).  London: privately printed, 1882-89.
 
 Anon.: Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit, translated by J[oseph] C[harles] Mardrus 
 (16 vols.). Paris: Editions de la revue blanche (vols. 1-11), E. Fasquelle (vols. 12-16),
 1900-04.
 
 Anon.: La reine de Saba, translated by J[oseph] C[harles] Mardrus.  Paris: Charpentier
 et Fasquelle, 1918.
 
 Ashworth, Edward Clarke: "Music - Opus clavicembalisticum", in The New English 
 Weekly, vol. 9 (30 April 1936), p. 55.
 
 Avalon, Arthur, ed.: The Serpent Power, 7th edition. Madras: Ganesh, 1964. Reprinted,
 New York: Dover, 1974, excluding the Sanskrit text and the colour in the plates.
 
 ----, ed.: Tantra of the Great Liberation. London: Luzac, 1913. Reprinted, New
 York: Dover Publications, 1972.
 
 Belloc, Hilaire: The Servile State, 3rd edition. London: Constable, 1927.
 
 Benda, Julien: La trahison des clercs. Paris: B. Grasset, 1927.

 ----: The Treason of the Intellectuals, translated by Richard Aldington. New York:
 W. Morrow, 1928.
 
 Benson, Marjorie Maulsby: The "Opus clavicembalisticum" by Kaikhosru Shapurgi
 [recte Shapurji] Sorabji: An Analysis, with References to its Model, the "Fantasia
 contrappuntistica" by Ferruccio Busoni (DMA, American Conservatory of Music, 1987).
 Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1987 (item no. 87-15706).
 
 Bhimani, Nazlin: Kaikhosru Sorabji's Writings on British Music in "The New Age"
 (1924-34) (MA, University of British Columbia, 1985).
 
 Blom, Eric: Everyman's Dictionary of Music. London: J. M. Dent, 1946.
 
 Branson, David: "Kaikhosru Sorabji", in The British Musician and Musical News, vol. 5,
 no. 11 (November 1929), pp. 311-12.
 
 Browne, Arthur G.: "The Music of Kaikhosru Sorabji", in Music and Letters, vol. 11
 (January 1930), pp. 6-16.
 
 Browne, Edward G.: A Literary History of Persia (4 vols.). Cambridge, England:
 Cambridge University Press, 1964.
 
 ----: "Sufiism", in Religious Systems of the World, 7th edition, pp. 314-32.
 London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1904.
 
 ----: A Year amongst the Persians, 3rd edition. London: Adam and Charles Black,
 1959.
 
 Buonarroti, Michelangelo: Rime, edited by Enzo Noe Girardi. Bari: Giuseppe Laterza,
 1960.
 
 Busoni, Ferruccio: Briefe an seine Frau, edited by Friedrich Schnapp. Erlenbach-Zurich:
 Rotapfel, 1935.
 
 ----: Letters to his Wife, translated by Rosamond Ley. London: Edward Arnold,
 1938.
 
 ----: Selected Letters, translated and edited by Antony Beaumont. New York:
 Columbia University Press, 1987.
 
 Butler, Bill: The Definitive Tarot. London: Century, 1975.
 
 Chisholm, Erik: "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji". London: Oxford University Press, ca.
 1938. Reprinted privately: n.pl., [ca. 1964].
 
 ---- and Holliday, Frank: "The Composer Sorabji" (transcript of a recorded talk).
 Printed privately: n.pl., [1970].
 
 Cobbett, William: A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland.
 London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1925.
 
 Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.: The Dance of Shiva. New York: The Sunwise Turn, 1924.
 
 Copley, Ian Alfred: The Music of Peter Warlock: A Critical Survey. London: Dennis
 Dobson, 1979.
 
 Dahlhaus, Carl: Foundations of Music History, translated by J. Bradford Robinson.
 Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
 
 Demuth, Norman: Musical Trends in the 20th Century. London: Rockliff, 1952.
 
 Derus, Kenneth: "Another Alkan". A paper read to the members of the Alkan Society of
 Great Britain on 21 November 1977 in London. Unpublished.
 
 ----: Program notes for the performance of Opus clavicembalisticum by Geoffrey
 Douglas Madge on 24 April 1983 in Mandel Hall, Chicago. Chicago: Contemporary
 Concerts, 1983.
 
 Douglas, Norman: Alone. London: Chapman and Hall, 1921.
 
 ----: How about Europe? London: Chatto and Windus, 1930.
 
 ----: South Wind. New York: Modern Library, 1925.
 
 Dummett, Michael: The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City (London:
 Duckworth, 1980).
 
 Duncan-Rubbra, Edmund: "Sorabji's Enigma", in The Monthly Musical Record, vol. 62
 (September 1932), p. 148.
 
 Eliot, T[homas] S[tearns]: "Tradition and the Individual Talent", in his The Sacred
 Wood, pp. 42-53. London: Methuen, 1920.
 
 Ellis, Havelock: Studies in the Psychology of Sex (2 vols.). New York: Random House,
 ca. 1936.
 
 Foreman, Lewis: Bax: A Composer and his Times, 2nd edition. London: Scolar Press,
 1988.
 
 Garvelmann, Donald M., ed.: The Composer Sorabji (Postscript). Printed privately:
 [New York, 1971].
 
 ----: "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji", in Journal of the American Liszt Society, vol. 4
 (December 1978), pp. 18-22.
 
 ----: "Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and
 Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie, vol. 17, pp. 534-35. London: Macmillan, 1980.
 
 ----: Thirteen Transcriptions for Piano Solo of Chopin's Waltz in D Flat, Op. 64,
 No. 1 (The Minute Waltz). Bronx, New York: Music Treasure Publications, 1969.
 
 ----: Transcript of the WNCN radio broadcast on Sorabji of 13 December 1970.
 Printed privately: [New York], 1970.
 
 Gervais, Terence White: "Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji", in Grove's Dictionary of Music
 and Musicians, 5th edition, edited by Eric Blom, vol. 7, pp. 970-71. London: Macmillan,
 1954.
 
 Gettings, Fred: Encyclopedia of the Occult. London: Rider, 1986.
 
 Goddard, Scott: Review of Around Music, by Kaikhosru Sorabji, in Music and Letters,
 vol. 14, no. 3 (July 1933), p. 288.
 
 Grant, Kenneth: The Magical Revival. London: Frederick Muller, 1972.
 
 Gray, Cecil: Musical Chairs: or, Between Two Stools. London: Home and Van Thal,
 1948. 
 
 ----: Peter Warlock: A Memoir of Philip Heseltine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934.
 
 ----: "Sorabji, Kaikhosru", in Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music,
 edited by Walter Cobbett, vol. 2, pp. 436-37. London: Oxford University Press, 1930.
 
 ----: A Survey of Contemporary Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1922.
 Gray-Fisk, Clinton: "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji", in The Musical Times, vol. 101 (April
 1960), pp. 230-32. Reprinted privately: n.pl., 1960 and later.
 
 Grew, Sydney: "Kaikhosru Sorabji - Le jardin parfume: Poem for Piano", in The British
 Musician, vol. 4 (1928), pp. 85-86.
 
 Guenon, Rene: The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, translated by Lord
 Northbourne. London: Luzac, 1953.
 
 Guercio, Francis M.: Sicily, the Garden of the Mediterranean: The Country and its
 People, 2nd edition. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.
 
 Gula, Robert J.: "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-    ): The Published Piano Works", in
 Journal of the American Liszt Society, vol. 12 (December 1982), pp. 48-49.
 
 Habermann, Michael: "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji", in The Piano Quarterly, issue no.
 122, vol. 31 (Summer 1983), pp. 36-37.
 
 ----: "Sorabji", in Keyboard, issue no. 120, vol. 12, no. 4 (April 1986), pp. 56-62.
 
 ----: A Style Analysis of the Nocturnes for Solo Piano by Kaikhosru Shapurji
 Sorabji with Special Emphasis on "Le jardin parfume" (DMA, Peabody Institute of the
 Johns Hopkins University, 1985). Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1985
 (item no. 85-06576).
 
 Hall, Radclyffe: The Well of Loneliness. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928.
 
 Haynes, Edmund Sidney Pollock: The Decline of Liberty in England. London: G. Richards,
 1916.
 
 Heseltine, Philip: "Sorabji, Kaikhosru", in A Dictionary of Modern Music and
 Musicians, edited by A[rthur] Eaglefield-Hull, p. 469. London: J. M. Dent, 1924.
 
 Hewart, Gordon (Lord Hewart of Bury): The New Despotism. London: E. Benn, 1929.
 
 Hinton, Alistair: "Kaikhosru Sorabji - An Appreciation", in program notes for the
 concert by Yonty Solomon on 7 December 1976 in Wigmore Hall, London, pp. 11-13.
 London: Park Lane Group, 1976.
 
 ----: Letter to the Editor, in Notes, vol. 46, no. 4 (June 1990), pp. 1090-91.
 
 Holliday, Frank: "A Contribution", in program notes for the concert by Yonty Solomon
 on 7 December 1976 in Wigmore Hall, London, p. 10. London: Park Lane Group, 1976.
 
 Howes, Frank: The English Musical Renaissance. London: Secker and Warburg, 1966.
 
 Huve, Cyril and Geoffrey Douglas Madge: "L'eloge de la difficulte", in Le monde de la
 musique, no. 119 (February 1989), pp. 116-18.
 
 James, M[ontague] R[hodes]: Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
 1937.
 
 Lambert, Constant: Music Ho! A Study of Music in Decline. London: Faber and Faber,
 1934.
 
 Levy, Oscar: The Idiocy of Idealism. London: William Hidge, 1940.
 
 Ludovici, Anthony: Man: An Indictment. London: Constable, 1927.
 
 ----: Woman: A Vindication. London: Constable, 1923.
 
 MacDiarmid, Hugh: The Company I've Kept. London: Hutchinson, 1966.
 
 Machen, Arthur: The House of Souls. London: E. G. Richards, 1906.
 
 Mackerness, E[ric] D[avid]: A Social History of English Music. London: Routledge and
 Kegan Paul, 1964.
 
 Mairet, Philip: A. R. Orage: A Memoir. New Hyde Park, New York: University Books,
 1966.
 
 Merriam, Alan P.: The Anthropology of Music. [Evanston]: Northwestern University
 Press, 1964.
 
 Meyer, Leonard: Music, the Arts, and Ideas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
 
 Nafzawi: see al-Nafzawi.
 
 Naoroji, Dadabhai: "The Parsi Religion", in Religious Systems of the World, 7th edition,
 pp. 184-93. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1904.
 
 Payne, John: The Poetical Works of John Payne (2 vols.). London: privately printed,
 1902. Reprinted, New York: AMS Press, 1970.
 
 Peterkin, Norman: "A Note on Kaikhosru Sorabji", in program notes for the concert by
 Yonty Solomon on 7 December 1976 in Wigmore Hall, London, pp. 8-9. London: Park
 Lane Group, 1976.
 
 Pirie, Peter: "The Search for Sorabji", in Music and Musicians, vol. 28, no. 3 (November
 1979), pp. 16-20.
 
 Portsmouth, Earl of: Alternative to Death. London: Faber and Faber, 1943.
 
 Posner, Bruce: Response to the Letter to the Editor from Alistair Hinton printed in
 Notes, vol. 46, no. 4 (June 1990), in Notes, vol. 46, no. 4 (June 1990), pp. 1091-92.
 
 ----: Review of Fantasiettina [...], by Kaikhosru Sorabji, in Notes, vol. 46, no. 2
 (December 1989), pp. 511-12.
 
 ----: Sorabji (BSc, Fordham University, 1975). Unpublished.
 
 Rapoport, Paul: Opus est: Six Composers from Northern Europe. London: Kahn and
 Averill, 1978. New York: Taplinger, 1979.
 
 ----: "Sorabji returns?", in The Musical Times, vol. 117 (December 1976), p. 995.
 
 Roberge, Marc-Andre: "The Busoni Network and the Art of Creative Transcription", in
 Canadian University Music Review, vol. 11, no. 1 (1991), pp. 68-88.
 
 ----: "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988)", in Sonances, vol. 8, no. 2 (Winter
 1989), pp. 30-37.
 
 ----: "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, compositeur sui generis", in Sonances, vol. 2,
 no. 3 (April 1983), pp. 17-21.

 ----:  "Producing Evidence for the Beatification of a Composer:  Sorabji's Deification of
 Busoni", in The Music Review, vol. 54, no. 2 (May 1993), pp. 123-136.
 
 Rubbra, Edmund: see Duncan-Rubbra, Edmund.
 
 Sanderson, William: That which was Lost. London: Constable, 1930.
 
 Scholes, Percy, ed.: "Sorabji, Kaikhosru", in his The Oxford Companion to Music, 1st
 edition, pp. 885-86. London: Oxford University Press, 1938.
 
 Scholes, Percy, ed.: "Sorabji, Kaikhosru", in his The Oxford Companion to Music, 8th
 edition, pp. 557-58. London: Oxford University Press, 1952.
 
 Scholes, Percy, ed.: "Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji", in his The Oxford Companion to
 Music, 9th edition, pp. 975-76. London: Oxford University Press, 1955.
 
 Selver, Paul: Orage and The New Age Circle: Reminiscences and Reflections. London:
 George Allen and Unwin, 1959.
 
 Sitwell, Sacheverell: "Kaikhosru Sorabji", in program notes for the concert by Yonty
 Solomon on 7 December 1976 in Wigmore Hall, London, p. 7. London: Park Lane
 Group, 1976.
 
 Slonimsky, Nicolas, ed.: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 6th edition. New
 York: Schirmer, 1978.
 
 ----, ed.: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 7th edition. New York:
 Schirmer, 1984.
 
 ----, ed.: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th edition. New York:
 Schirmer, 1992.
 
 ----: Music Since 1900, 4th edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
 
 Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji: [Animadversions [...]]. Essay written about his works,
 published and unpublished, on the occasion of the microfilming of some of his
 manuscripts. Lacking the first three pages. Unpublished, [1953].
 
 ----: Around Music. London: Unicorn Press, 1932. Reprinted without the errata
 sheet, Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion Press, 1979.
 
 ----: Collected Writings from Five Serial Publications. Microfilm compiled by Paul
 Rapoport and Kenneth Derus. Unpublished, 1977.
 
 ________: "The Greatness of Medtner", in Nicolas Medtner, edited by Richard Holt, pp.
 122-32. London: Dennis Dobson, 1954.
 
 ----: Mi contra fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician. London:
 Porcupine Press, 1947. Reprinted with an introduction by Donald Garvelmann, New
 York: Da Capo Press, 1986.
 
 ----: "Modern Piano Technique", in The Sackbut, vol. 1, no. 3 (July 1920), pp.
 116-23.
 
 ----: "Oriental Influences in Contemporary Music", in The Chesterian, new series,
 no. 3 (December 1919), pp. 83-86.
 
 ----: "Sexual Inversion", in The Medical Times (London), vol. 49 (October 1921),
 pp. 148-49.
 
 ----: "The Songs of Francis George Scott", in Scottish Art and Letters, vol. 1 (1944),
 pp. 22-23.
 
 ----: "The Validity of the Aristocratic Principle", in Art and Thought, edited by K.
 Bharatha Iyer, pp. 214-18. London: Luzac, 1947.
 
 Spengler, Oswald: The Decline of the West, translated by Charles Francis Atkinson.
 London: G. Allen, 1922.
 
 Steane, John: "English Opera Criticism in the Interwar Years: Sorabji of The New Age",
 in Opera, vol. 36 (June 1985), pp. 623-31.
 
 Stevenson, Ronald: "Opus clavicembalisticum - A Critical Analysis", in the booklet
 with the recording of Opus clavicembalisticum by John Ogdon, pp. 28-49. Sevenoaks:
 Altarus (AIR-CD-9075), 1989.
 
 Storr, Anthony: Solitude: A Return to the Self. New York: The Free Press, 1988.
 
 Tomlinson, Fred: Warlock and Van Dieren. London: Thames Publishing, 1978.
 
 Treitler, Leo: Music and the Historical Imagination. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
 Harvard University Press, 1989.
 
 Tripp, C. A.: The Homosexual Matrix, 2nd edition. New York: New American Library,
 1987.
 
 Van Dieren, Bernard: Down Among the Dead Men. London: Oxford University Press,
 1935.
 
 Whistler, James McNeill: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, as Pleasingly Exemplified
 in Many Instances, wherein the Serious Ones of This Earth, Carefully Exasperated,
 Have Been Prettily Spurred onto Unseemliness and Indiscretion, while Overcome by an
 Undue Sense of Right. London: Heinemann, 1936.
 
 Whittall, Arnold: "Sorabjiana", in The Musical Times, vol. 107 (March 1966), pp. 216-17.
 
 Williams, Christopher a Becket: "The Music of Kaikhosru Sorabji", in The Sackbut, vol.
 4, no. 11 (June 1924), pp. 315-19.
 
 Wilson, Colin: The Occult. St. Albans: Granada, 1979.
 
 Zaehner, Robert Charles: The Teachings of the Magi. London: George Allen and Unwin,
 1956. 
 

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