Writings by Sir Michael Tippett
Moving into Aquarius. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. Expanded edition. St. Albans, England: Paladin, 1974. ISBN 586-08179-8
Collection of transcribed broadcasts and essays by Tippett, many of which were previously published in The Listener and elsewhere. Tippett has supplemented most items with introductions and postscripts providing background information and further explication.
Out of print. Most of the contents are included in Tippett on Music (see below).
Music of the Angels: Essays and sketchbooks of Michael Tippett, selected and edited by Meirion Bowen. London, Eulenberg Books, 1980. ISBN 0-903873-60-5
A compilation of all of the major essays and broadcasts (some transcribed from impromptu talks) by the composer. A major draft scenario for the oratorio A Child of Our Time which Tippett took to T. S. Elliot in 1938, after asking him to write the text for the work.
Out of print. Most of the contents are included in Tippett on Music (see below).
Those Twentieth Century Blues: an autobiography. Hutchinson, 1992; paperback edition Pimlico Books, 1994. ISBN 0-7126 6059-3
Tippett's autobiography is as idiosyncratic as the man himself, revealing his insatiable curiosity about people and places, ideas and sensations and music of every kind. Remarkably candid about his emotional and sexual life, it includes transcripts of a selection of dreams he wrote down and subjected to Jungian analysis in 1938-9 during a crucial period in his personal and artistic development.
Michael Tippett:The E. William Doty Lectures in Fine Arts 2nd series, 1976. (Austin: College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1979).
(Three talks given by Tippett at the University of Texas at Austin in the Spring of 1976. Each began with an extended statement by the composer, followed by his responses to questions from the floor. A glimpse at the composer's divagatory and allusive speaking style.)
Tippett on Music: ed. Meirion Bowen. Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-816541-2 (reprinted 2001).
A compilation of essays previously published in Moving into Aquarius and Music of the Angels (see above), plus some essays and extended versions of earlier ones
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Tippett zur Musik: German edition of Tippett on Music (see above) by Meinhard Saremba. With a special foreword by the composer. Schott MuzikInternational, Mainz. 1998. ISBN 3-7959-0334-4