Sinfoni Melayu
Sinfoni Melayu (or Sinfoni Malaya) is mentioned in the reference work Contemporary Composers[1] as a symphony composed by Anthony Burgess in 1956, when he was a teacher at Malay College Kuala Kangsar. In his book This Man and Music[2] Burgess himself wrote:
- Sinfoni Melayu, a three-movement symphony which tried to combine the musical elements of the country into a synthetic language which called on native drums and xylophones as well as instruments of the full Western orchestra. The last movement ended with a noble professional theme, rather Elgarian, representing independence. Then, over a drum roll and before the final chord in C major, the audience was to rise and shout "Merdeka!"[3]
In his Anthony Burgess Newsletter in 1999 Paul Phillips called "Sinfoni Malaya for orchestra and brass band” Burgess's second symphony, following Symphony No. 1, composed in 1935).[4]
The score of the symphony appears to have been lost, [5] and there is no evidence that it was ever performed, so the only source for its existence is Burgess’s own testimony.
References
- ^ Contemporary Composers, ed. Brian Morton and Pamela Collins, Chicago and London: St. James Press, 1992 - ISBN 1-55862-085-0
- ^ Anthony Burgess, This Man And Music, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982 - ISBN 0-07-008964-7
- ^ quoted in Crinson, Mark (2003). Modern Architecture and the End of Empire. Ashgate Publishing. p. 228. ISBN 0-7546-3510-4. page 161
- ^ Phillips, Paul (1999). "The Music of Anthony Burgess". Anthony Burgess Newsletter. The Anthony Burgess Centre, University of Angers. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ Music 1954-59, International Anthony Burgess Foundation Archived April 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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Works by Anthony Burgess
- The Long Day Wanes
- The Right to an Answer
- The Doctor Is Sick
- The Worm and the Ring
- Devil of a State
- One Hand Clapping
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Wanting Seed
- Honey for the Bears
- Inside Mr Enderby
- The Eve of Saint Venus
- Nothing Like the Sun
- A Vision of Battlements
- Tremor of Intent
- Enderby Outside
- M/F
- Napoleon Symphony
- The Clockwork Testament
- Beard's Roman Women
- ABBA ABBA
- 1985
- Man of Nazareth
- Earthly Powers
- The End of the World News
- Enderby's Dark Lady
- The Kingdom of the Wicked
- The Pianoplayers
- Any Old Iron
- Mozart and the Wolf Gang
- A Dead Man in Deptford
- Byrne
- Moses: A Narrative
- Revolutionary Sonnets
- An Essay on Censorship
- Homage to Qwert Yuiop
- One Man's Chorus
- Shakespeare
- Joysprick
- Ninety-Nine Novels
- Language Made Plain
- A Mouthful of Air
- Sinfoni Melayu
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