Acknowledgements References to Tippett's scores and essays 1. Tippett and the 'world vision' of modernity 2. The significance of the concept 'image' in Tippett's musical thought: a perspective from Jung 3. Back to Nietzsche? Transformations of the dionysiac in The Midsummer Marriage and King Priam 4. Metaphysics in a cold climate: The Vision of Saint Augustine 5. 'Shall we ...? Affirm!' The ironic and the sublime in The Mask of Time 6. The meaning of 'lateness': mediations of work, self and society in Tippett's Triple Concerto 7. The golden bird and the porcelain bowl: Byzantium and the politics of artefacts Notes Bibliography Index.
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