Contents -- Preface -- Songs about Spring -- Sicilian Limes -- Divertimento for Paino and Strings -- The Resurrection of Don Juan -- Ode to the West Wind -- String Quartet -- The Boor -- Six Elizabethan Songs -- Colonel Jonathan the Saint -- Christopher Sly -- The Masque of Angels -- Royal Invitation, or Homage to the Queen of Tonga -- Variations for Orchestra (The Mask of Night) -- The Revelation of Saint John the Divine -- The Shoemakers' Holiday -- Letters from Composers -- A Nation of Cowslips -- Bravo Mozart! -- Tria Carmina Paschalia -- Postcard from Morocco -- A Ring of Time -- Jonah and the Whale -- To Be Sung upon the Water -- A Water Bird Talk -- From the Diary of Virginia Woolf -- The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe -- In Praise of Music -- Miss Havisham's Fire -- A Thanksgiving to God, for His House -- Let All the World in Every Corner Sing -- Miss Havisham's Wedding Night -- Peter Quince at the Clavier -- Fire Variations -- I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo) -- The Andrée Expedition -- Prelude for Easter Dawning -- Casa Guidi -- Casanova's Homecoming -- Le Tombeau d' Edgar Poe -- Capriccio for Clarinet and Orchestra -- Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi) -- The Aspern Papers -- Easter Day -- The Angel Israfil -- A Toccata of Galuppi's -- Everyone Sang -- The Dream of Valentino -- To God "In memoriam M. B. I994" -- Valentino Dances -- Spirituals and Swedish Chorales -- Miss Havisham's Fire (revised) -- Valse Triste -- Walden Pond -- A Few Words about Chekhov -- Reverie (Reflections on a Hymn Tune) -- Miss Manners on Music -- The Vision -- The Bremen Town Musicians -- Sonnet 64 (In memoriam 9/11/01) -- Orpheus -- From a Composer's Journal -- Discography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.