The Utopian Mayeux by Elizabeth K. Menon, Canadian Journal of History, August 1998, online version was once free but now seems to require subscription.

A long review of Robb's biography of Hugo could once be found online. A short notice is available here: http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring99/victorhugo.htm

A detailed critical account of the October 2000 Chicago "political" production of Rigoletto was once available. Here is a short notice:
http://www.operajaponica.org/archives/america/americaletterpast00.htm

Jim Zwick's excellent introduction to the political cartoons of Louis-Philippe and the July Monarchy is at: http://www.boondocksnet.com/cartoons/

A brief introduction to the beliefs of Saint-Simon is at: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/ysimcom.htm

The Grand Guignol Theatre is introduced at: http://www.grandguignol.com/

The houses of Rigoletto & Sparafucile can be viewed without making the trip to Mantua: http://www.itis.mn.it/acqua/inglese/rigolet1.htm

The Hugo family's "channelled Shakespeare" play can be read in part at: http://www.newpara.com/mediums_and_shakespeare.htm

Victor Hugo seems to be still with us, according to this spirit message channelled as recently as 2002: http://www.new-birth.net/contemporary/fab11.htm

Reading List:

Charles Osborne: The Complete Operas of Verdi, Gollancz, Pan, 1969, 1973;
Francis Toye: Giuseppe Verdi, his life & works, Heinemann, 1931;
Miranda Richardson: Victor Hugo, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976

Graham Robb: Victor Hugo, 1997

Elgar on Record, Jerrold Northrop Moore, EMI Records Ltd, 1974;
Elgar's Mystical Songs, Michael Kennedy, Three Choirs Festival Programme, Hereford 1970;
The Apostles Reconsidered, Michael Kennedy, Three Choirs Festival Programme, Hereford 1973;
Elgar: The Kingdom, notes for the Boult recording, original LP issue by Percy Young, HMV SLS 939, 1969.
Elgar: The Apostles, LP notes by Michael Kennedy, from HMV SLS 976, 1974;
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, LP sleevenotes by Alec Robertson for Sargent's 2nd recording, 1955,
Columbia 33CX 1247 - 48.
Elgar: The Starlight Express, sleevenotes & synopsis by Jerrold Northrop Moore, 1981 reissue HMV ESDW 711, orig. issued 1976;
Elgar: The Wand of Youth etc, Percy Young's sleeve-notes for Boult LP: ASD 2356, 1967.
Elgar: The Sanguine Fan etc, insert notes etc by Jerrold Northrop Moore, HMV ASD 2970, 1973;

A brief Charles Conder biography at: http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/Conder_biography.htm

Links to some of his paintings and their locations can be found here: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/conder_charles.html

I have not traced the exact family relationship between Charles and the explorer Major C. R. Conder, born c 1848. Probably a cousin.

Probably the answer lies somewhere in the tangled threads of this genealogy forum: http://genforum.com/conder/

Lytton Strachey: Eminent Victorians, essays on Cardinal Manning contains Newman background, essay on General Gordon;

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poetical Works, complete edition, Wordsworth Poets, 1994 reprint;

Many of Longfellow's works, including The Divine Tragedy are also available online.

Anthony Paine: Broadcast Talk on Elgar's Third Symphony & King Arthur, r. March 1995, on BBC Music CD: MM 138;

Elgar: The Spanish Lady, BBC Glasgow recording r. June 1995, on BBC Music CD: MM 138;

A splendid online text of Ben Jonson's play The Devil is an Ass is to be found here: http://hollowaypages.com/jonson1692devil.htm

Yeats's mystical beliefs are outlned at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8156/yeats.html

There are many other online references to Yeats, Moore and Irish Theatre and an essay on Lady Gregory's version of Grania & Diarmid, which is now viewed as a feminist piece.

John Ruskin's Sesame & Lilies is available complete as an e-text from Project Gutenberg

Gnostic versions of Christianity are explored at: http://www.dhushara.com/book/consum/gnos/jesgnos.htm

Longfellow's Golden Legend is available complete in several e-text versions. There is also at least one on-line version of the libretto as set by Sullivan.

The Laughing Gnostic: David Bowie and the Occult , an essay by Peter R, Koenig, can be found at: http://www.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/bowie.htm

Most of the information from:
Malcolm Macdonald: The Symphonies of Havergal Brian, Vol. I, Kahn & Averill, 1974

The stimulus for this came from an essay by one Dr. John Coleman, but the Adorno-Beatles mythos appears to be common currency in paranoid-right fodder stemming from a book called the Aquarian Conspiracy. Look out for the characterisation of Schoenberg as a composer whose music is noted for its repetitive beats. He is elsewhere denounced as a "formalist", now where did we hear that word before?

A piece on Rock & Roll & Mind Control can be found here: http://www.illuminati-news.com/rock_and_mc.htm

A recording of some of Adorno's real works appeared on the Wergo label in June 1991 and it appears that he did move towards a popular idiom of the Weill and Eisler kind. He also worked on a popular American song-theatre piece based on Mark Twain's works. The reviewer in The Gramophone seemed surprised that a philosopher should composer music at all. If only he had known!

Maybrick alias Adams seems to have come to notice first in the mid eighteen seventies. Mainly he was published by Boosey's but Chappell had the three patriotic numbers listed, which I assume are earliest. Sadly, the back-cover lists do not give the lyric writer but I will fill in the gaps as information comes to hand. The business of dating from sheet music is fraught with difficulties and the most popular Adams numbers stayed in print for many years. Others came and went. Derek estimates there are about 100 songs so this list probably represents more than half. I have also noted a number called The Sailor's Farewell, which turns out to be an alternative US title for The Tar's Farewell. The words were by Punch contributor F. C. Burnand, who also provided the libretto for Sullivan's Cox & Box. Brief titles can be misleading as there were other unrelated composers, such as the American A. E. Adams who wrote The Bells of Saint Mary's, 1917. Stephen Adams seems mainly to have been a composer of songs (and one duet found so far). However Edwin Ashdown published a piano piece called Matin Bells under the name M. Maybrick. Dance arrangements of his tunes also turn up but they were done by others. As regards dates, I understand that Adams gave up composition in 1896, so the dates given below reflect the sheet musics continuing popularity during the Edwardian period. Adams broke with Weatherly in 1892 and The Holy City was their final collaboration yet Weatherly's Friend o'mine, 1913, set to music by Wilfred Sanderson, was dedicated to the memory of Stephen Adams. It is said that Maybrick gave up composition entirely in 1896.

As M. Maybrick:

Matin Bells, Rêverie, for piano, published by Edwin Ashdown, 1880s? - added 6th July, 2006

As Stephen Adams:

1: Listed on back of a Chappell ballad from the 1880s?

True Blue, words ? sung by "Mr Maybrick";
True to the Last, words Charles Rowe;
A Warrior Bold, words by Edwin Thomas. His first song. It dates from the early 1870s.

2: Listed on a Boosey Ballad of the 1880s?

NB Trimmed edge makes some titles uncertain:

Vanderdecken, sung by "Mr Maybrick" A Flying Dutchman ballad, words Weatherly, 1886 (NB: Ballads on the theme of The Flying Dutchman, such as that by John Orlando Parry, words by Richard Ryan, 1848, disappointingly post-date Wagner's opera and throw no light on the somewhat murky sources of that piece)
(I d?)are you to forget, sung by Miss Eleanor Rees;
Shipwrecked, sung by "Mr Maybrick";
The Maid of the Mill, words by Hamilton Aïdé, sung by Edward Lloyd;
(NB: Hamilton Aïdé is also listed as a composer of songs sung by Maybrick)
(The Maid of the Mill is alluded to in the suppressed opening lines of The Waste Land of T. S. Eliot, 1922, pub. 1971)
The Owl, words ? singer: "Mr Maybrick";
*The Romany Lass, words Weatherly, singer: Edward Lloyd;
The Little Hero, words A. Matthison, singer: "Mr Maybrick", changed to "All Baritones";
The Children of the City, words ? singer Madame Patey;
Good Company, words Dr. Charles Mackay, singer: Edward Lloyd;
The Midshipmite, words Weatherly, singer: "Mr Maybrick", changed to "All Baritones";
The Silver Cup, words Hugh Conway, singer: "Mr Maybrick";
Nancy Lee, words Weatherly, singer: "Mr Maybrick", changed to "All Baritones", 1878
The Tar's Farewell, words F. C. Burnand, singer: Charles Santley;
The Blue Alsatian Mountains, words by "Claribel" ie Mrs Charles C. Barnard née Charlotte Arlington, singer: Edward Lloyd.
("Expressly composed" for Lloyd, dedicated to Miss Edith Mason. One Lamothe wrote a waltz called The Blue Alsatians based on the song, c 1875?)

3: Additional items listed on another Boosey ballad of the 1880s?

Whispers, words? singer Edward Lloyd;
The Viking Song, words ? singer Signor Foli, ps. Foley;
Little Ben Lee, words ? singer "Mr Maybrick"; possibly an "answer-song" to Nancy Lee?

4: Additional items listed on a third Boosey ballad of the 1880s?

The Soldier's Goodbye, words ? singer "Mr Maybrick";
The Abbott, words ? singer "Mr Maybrick";
(Do or Go?) and Forget, words ? singer Miss Damian;
The Pilgrim, words ? singer: Edward Lloyd;
(NB: This cover also lists a song by Weatherly himself as composer: "Uncle John")

5: Additional items listed on back of Sullivan's Lost Chord, song dates from 1877 but stayed in print for many years. This copy probably 1880s:

The One I Love, words ? sung by Sims Reeves;
True Hearts, words ? sung by Helen D'Alton;
Thorns & Roses, words ? sung by "Mr Maybrick";
Youth & Age, words ? sung by "Mr Maybrick";

6: Additional Songs from back cover of a 1904 Boosey ballad:

Babylon, words ? singer: Clara Butt;
Roses, words Weatherly, singer: John Harrison;
The Lifeboat Men, words ? singer ?
When I was One and Twenty, words possibly A. E. Housman? singer ?
The Veteran's Song, words Weatherly, pre-1904, singer: Ivor Foster;
Nirvana, words Weatherly, singers: Edward Lloyd, Ben Davies, 1904, changed to John McCormack, 1910;
Ever so far Away, words Weatherly, singer: Maggie Davies, 1899;
Idle Words, words Weatherly, singer: Clara Butt;
The Maid of Malabar, words Weatherly, singer: Jack Robertson;
*The Valley by the Sea, words Weatherly, 1893, singer: 1904, Belle Cole, changed to "All Contraltos";
The Holy City, words Weatherly, singer: Edward Lloyd;
*The Island of Dreams, words Weatherly singer: Edward Lloyd;
By the Fountain, words Weatherly, singer: Alice Gomez;
Mona, words Weatherly, singer: Edward Lloyd;
The Star of Bethlehem, words Weatherly, singer: Edward Lloyd;
They all Love Jack, words Weatherly, 1885, singer: 1909 "Mr Maybrick", changed to "All Baritones";
The Garonne, words Weatherly, singer: Edward Lloyd;

7: Additional Items listed on ballad of 1909:

Ben the Bo'sun, words ? singer Harry Dearth;
*Thora, words Weatherly, 1905, singer listed as Ivor Foster in 1909, changed 1910 to John Harrison;

8: Additional Items listed on ballad of 1910:

A True British Sailor, words? singer: Harry Dearth;
Farewell in the Desert, words Weatherly, singer Norman Williams;
Comrades of Yesterday, words ? singer Wilfred Douthitt;
Silver Moon, words ? singer Ivor Walters;

9: Additional Item listed on ballad of 1920:

Little Hut by the Banyan Tree, words Weatherly, singer: Herbert Cave;

10: Duet. listed 1899, no singers listed:

By the Waters, version 1: soprano & contralto, version 2: soprano & baritone, words Annette Baker, 1894?

11: Additions from Derek Strahan, similarly copied from lists on back covers:

John Bull, sung by Mr. H. Lane Wilson;
Her Majesty, sung by Mr. H. Lane Wilson;
The Cup of Life, sung by Miss Clara Butt;
The Forge and the Bell, words Weatherly, sung by Miss Clara Butt;
The Young Royalist, words Weatherly, sung by Mr. Andrew Black;
The Light of the World, words Weatherly, sung by Mr. Edward Lloyd;
Fiona, sung by Mr. Edward Lloyd;
Adieu, Marie, words Weatherly, sung by Mr. Edward Lloyd;
To The Front, words Weatherly, sung by Mr. Maybrick;
What am I, Love, Without Thee? sung by Mr. Maybrick;
This Work-a-Day World, sung by Mdme Belle Cole;
The Stars of Normandie, words Weatherly, sung by Mdme Alice Gomez;

12: Additional item derived from Library of Congress catalogue:

Between You & I - A Bachelor's Song, words by H. Angelo, (this) US issue, 1885.

13: 2 Additional items added 2nd April 2001, from lists of sheet music on the Web:

The Bell at Sea, words by Weatherly, 1908;
Two Brown Eyes, words by Weatherly.

This makes 68 songs so far.

As might be expected, some items seem to fade off the lists early on, e.g. Viking Song & Whispers to be replaced by others while some are hardy perennials, e.g. The Holy City.

[A list from B. Williams has a ballad by Bush called Childhood's Home with "words by Adams" no further identification, though a Harry Adams was active as a lyric writer at the time and there were probably others. It is unlikely to be Stephen Adams who does not seem to have written lyrics for any of his own songs. Weatherly did occasionally write music for his own lyrics, such as the original tune for Danny Boy and the Uncle John listed above. None of these appear to have been very popular.]

Weatherly claimed to have written some 3,000 lyrics and about 1,500 were set and published.

A Page given to Masonic references in Joyce's Ulysses is at: http://www.freemasonry.bc.ca/fiction/joyce.html

NB: The present copyright situation with regard to James Joyce is complicated. He died in 1941 and is therefore in the Public Domain outside of Europe but will not be out of copyright in Europe until 2011. Meanwhile it is clearly an act of terrible evil for anyone in Europe to consult the on-line editions of his works, of which there are several. Or maybe it is OK to consult them but not to download them. The usefulness of searchable texts of this allusive author will be obvious.

Further information on Fred Weatherly and Danny Boy can be seen at: http://www.standingstones.com/danny3.html

The songs in The Waste Land are explored at http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/exsongs.html

Weatherly wrote an autobiography entitled Piano and Gown at the age of 75, which would date it about 1923 -24. He is a famous son of Portishead, Somerset, near Bristol, a connection remembered at: http://www.portishead.gov.uk/about-portishead/present_day.htm

Thanks to Giollamuire Ó Murchú for some corrections and additions which were e-mailed to me as long ago as April 2002. They have belatedly been incorporated together with a more explicit reference to the opening of Finnegans Wake, where the name of Stephen Adams seems to hover like a ghost.

Conan Doyle's account of Mons is available on the Web at http://www.worldwar1.com/heritage/angel.htm

The Paul Paree sheet music cover and more about Arthur Machen can be found at http://www.cafes.net/ditch/macgal.htm

Conan Doyle's 1891 novel The White Company is available complete: http://www.literature.org/authors/doyle-arthur-conan/white-company/chapter-06.html

The last Sherlock Holmes collection was due to come out of copyright in 2003, according to this site. But the site has not been updated since 1996: http://www.citsoft.com/holmes.html

A text file of His Last Bow can be found here: http://www.citsoft.com/holmes/last_bow/his.last.bow.txt

There are numerous short biographies of Conan Doyle on the Web.

Some of Arthur Machen's work is available on the Web including his first book The Great God Pan at Project Gutenberg and the complete text of the very short story The Bowmen is available complete at http://www.aftermathww1.com/bowmen.asp

Machen's Preface to The Bowmen is also available at http://www.aftermathww1.com/bowmint1.asp

An informative piece from the Limerick Leader on the Honorable Emily Lawless & The Wild Geese was once online but the link is now dead.

Harty also set at least one poem of Emily Lawless as a song: The Stranger's Grave. It was recorded by Isobel Baillie in 1974, when she was about 80 years of age.

Roger Casement's Congo reports are described at: http://www.boondocksnet.com/congo/congo_crime07.html

The case of the authenticity of the Black Diaries of Roger Casement is discussed here: http://home.wmin.ac.uk/marketingresearch/2179casement.htm

Some light on John Ireland's inspirations can be found in an essay by Ian Lace at: http://www.musicweb-international.com/ireland/lace.htm

And the Machen-Ireland connection is further explored by Colin Scott Sutherland at: http://www.britishclassicalmusic.com/hotch2.html

Florence Aylward's Song of the Bow was recorded a number of times in the days of 78s. I have heard English Bass Norman Allin on Columbia L.1353, c. 1922.

The ballad was in print by 1898 so was written about seven years after the novel in which Doyle's words appeared.

Beloved it is morn, sung by Alice Gomez;
Call of Life, sung by Robert Radford;
Love's Coronation, sung by Alice Gomez;
Made a Man, sung by Charles Tree;
Morning and You! sung by Carmen Hill;
Song of the Bow, sung by Kennerley Rumford i.e. Mr. Clara Butt;
Thrush to his Love, no singer listed for this unappealing title;
Two Songs: a: For your sake; b: The Country Faith, sung by Kirkby Lunn.

NB: Female ballad composers feature very strongly on the Chappell list:

Liza Lehmann, Maude Valerie White, Teresa del Riego head their list which also features Guy d'Hardelot, Florence Aylward, Dorothy Forster, Ethel Barns, May Brahe, Alma Goetz, Margaret Cooper, Daisy McGeoch and probably others hidden under male pseudonyms.

Two further Aylward ballads with words by Weatherly were published together in 1909:
Deep in my heart a lute lay hid & The bird I love the best

Background on Hoffmann in: Roger Cardinal: German Romantics in Context, Studio Vista, 1975

Chamisso's poems are available at Emily Ezust's massive Lieder resource at: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/lieder.html

Meister Eckhart's Sermons & Treatises were consulted in the two volume edition edited by M. O'C. Walsh, Element Books, 1979, 1991

Some of Meister Eckhart's works are available in English online. Here, for example: http://www.ellopos.net/theology/eckhart.htm