How to Lose a Musical Compass in a Few Hundred Lines? (And How to Find it again?)


 This paper attempts to explain the collective incomprehensibility of The Waste Land. Of course, this attempt does not only apply music Anthony Burgess, since, for one, it is inseparable from poetry T. S. Eliot, and also multiplies number quotations associations in literary work, be obvious or more less hid- den. Therefore, will embark on a special task: through compositional methods nineteenth-century composer, Robert Schumann, try demon- strate real metaphorical ambiguity tonality resulting fragmenta- tion, creative playful musical gestures, various personae—this method may help find an individual way experience effect Burgess’s music.