Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-x

List of illustrations

pp xi-xiii

List of contributors

pp xiv-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xviii

Roles and acknowledgements

pp xix-xx

Introduction

pp xxi-xxvi

Editorial conventions

pp xxvii-xxvii

Timeline

pp xxviii-xxx

Chapter One - Histories

pp 1-2

Conversation One: Childhood and teenage years

pp 3-14

Reflection One: Music and/as home

pp 15-30

Chapter Two - Influences

pp 31-32

Conversation Two: The music from A Humming Song (1967) to Lento (1990)

pp 33-56

Reflection Two: Skempton and experimentalism

pp 57-66

Chapter Three - Pattern and shape

pp 67-68

Conversation Three: Becoming established, and the music after Lento (1990)

pp 69-90

Reflection Three, “Strangely simple”: Howard Skempton's composing

pp 91-126

Interval: Previously unpublished manuscripts

Chapter Four - Influencing

pp 127-128

Conversation Four: On teaching composition

pp 129-143

Lessons were “magical”: Skempton's composition students

pp 144-148

Reflection Four, “Not a lot spoken, but a lot said”: Skempton as teacher and composer

pp 149-168

Chapter Five - Performing

pp 169-184

Chapter Six - Narrative and closure

pp 185-186

The story of the story

pp 187-200

After-image: A reflection on a reflection

pp 201-204

Appendix One - Authorized worklist

pp 205-225

Appendix Two - Discography of first commercially distributed recordings

pp 226-233