books on music

  Horizons Touched (2007)

      A Concise History of Western Music (2006)

 The Substance of Things Heard (2005)

   The Penguin Companion to Classical Music (2004)

  The Sea on Fire: Jean Barraqué (2003)

 When Divas Confess (1999)

  Modern Music and After (1995)

 Stravinsky (1992)

György Ligeti (1983, 2/1992)


The Thames & Hudson Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Music (1986)

New Sounds, New Personalities (1985)

 Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time (1985)

Bartók (1984)

Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress (1982)

The String Quartet (1982)

Peter Maxwell Davies (1982)

Cage (1981)

 A Guide to Electronic Music (1979)

Boulez (1978)
 
       A Concise History of Modern Music (1978)

words for music

 The General (2007)

 there is still time (2003)

 What Next? (1999)

  Marco Polo (1996)

Æneas in Hell (1994)

The Jewel Box (1991)

novels and stories

 let me tell you (2008)

  Leda (2000)

 The Lay of Sir Tristram (1991)

 Myself and Marco Polo (1989)