News and Recent Modifications

2024

2024-10-10: Updated the title of Le mauvais jardinier (1919; compl. Chappell Kingsland, 2023; 5 pp.) to reflect the new situation.

2024-09-03: Reorganized the presentation of section “Computer Realizations” on page Archival Audio and Video Recordings and provided full details for David Carter’s realizations.

2024-07-17: Added several durations to page Performed Works and Durations.

2024-03-29: Expanded the entry for Opusculum clavisymphonicum vel claviorchestrale (1973-75; 334 pp.) with details on editions and recordings of the Liturgy no. 2 of St. John Chrysostom, op. 29, by Alexander Gretchaninov on page Musical and Literary Sources (with Links to Online Versions).

2024-03-25: Added details of seven programmes devoted to Sorabji, including interviews with Michael Habermann, Geoffrey Douglas Madge, and Charles Hopkins, on WFUV’s “Concert Grande” hosted by Joe Patrych and Bruce Posner in 1983, 1987, and 1989 on page Archival Audio and Video Recordings.

2024-01-29: Added a few entries and details to other entries on page Discoveries of Manuscripts, Acquisitions and Sales based on the results returned by Curator.org (full details of sales from many auctioneers with free registration).

2023

2023-12-25: Added durations for the forthcoming recording of Opus clavicembalisticum (1929-30; 253 pp.) by Daan Vandewalle on the Belgian label Passacaille on page Durations of Recorded Performances of Opus clavicembalisticum.

2023-06-21: Submitted the entire site to a major stylistic and grammatical overhaul. Added a column (Type) to indicate whether a given title is evocative, generic, or mixed, as well as a note entitled Use of definite articles before titles about the practice followed on the site, on page Chronological List of Works with KSS Numbers and Years of Publication. The note also appears on page Linguistic, Terminological, and Musical Problems in Titles of Works. All references to titles on the site have been revised to conform the practice explained in the note.

2023-03-14: Created a page entitled Completions and Arrangements.

2022

2022-03-24: Updated several pages to take into account the publication of the second edition of Il tessuto d’arabeschi (1979; 32 pp.) by Marc-André Roberge, originally published in 2004.

2022-03-02: Reformatted the table on page Chronological List of Works with KSS Numbers and Years of Publication, now showing years of publication and names of the editors in columns for the first and later editions as appropriate.

2022-01-11: Added durations for all the recordings listed on page Recordings Posted on Video-Hosting Websites.

2022-01-04: Updated several pages to reflect the publication of a second edition of the Cinque sonetti di Michelagniolo Buonarroti (1923; 40 pp.) by Marc-André Roberge, originally published in 2005.

2021

2021-08-22: Updated several pages to take into account the publication of the new editions of the Sonata seconda for Piano (1920; 49 pp.) by William A.P.M. [William Penafiel] and the Sonata III for Piano (1922; 75 pp.) by R. D. [Ramer Davey] Lee, as well as of the second editions of the Trois poèmes (1941; 13 pp.) and the Fantasiettina atematica (1981; 2 pp.) by Marc-André Roberge, originally published in 2007 and 2005.

2021-06-15: Changed the text font from Verdana to Tahoma to avoid the former’s lack of support for some Unicode characters with diacritics depending on the browser used.

2021-06-14: Revised the citations for the French texts set by Sorabji on page Musical and Literary Sources (with Links to Online Versions), with references and links to the original editions.

2021-05-30: Updated several pages to take into account the publication of the edition of the Toccata terza (1955; 91 p.) by Abel Sánchez-Aguilera.

2021-05-15: Revised page Correspondents by transforming it from a simple list divided into alphabetical sections into a table, and added the names of the correspondents whose letters are found in collections other than the Sorabji Archive, with indication of the number of letters on both sides.

2021-05-07: Added or corrected several dates of birth and death for people not mentioned in standard reference works on page Biographical Notes.

2021-05-03: Added about fifty entries on page Literary Tastes following a new examination of Sorabji’s letters to Erik Chisholm, Christopher Murray Grieve, Philip Heseltine, Frank Holliday, and Ronald Stevenson.

2021-03-13: Added a section detailing the Sorabji-related items on the Erik Chisholm Trust website on page Archival Sources for Letters and Other Documents.

2021-03-02: Added references to four previously unknown open letters (probably unpublished) mentioned in the Erik Chisholm Archive in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Archives & Collections on page Published Essays and Open Letters.

2021-02-14: Added links on page Useful Links for Research.

2021-01-25: Added links to photographs by M. C. van de Rovvart and Paul Selver and a reference to the Sanatorium Groedel (Bad Neuheim), where Sorabji’s father died, on page References to Photographs of People and Places Connected with Sorabji.

2021-01-23: Overhauled page Archival Audio and Video Recordings and added a table listing the contents of archival recordings in the collection of the British Library.

2021-01-20: Added forty venues for first performances on page Concert Venues, thus rounding out the picture.

2021-01-06: Added a work dedicated to Sorabji, namely, a Toccata by his friend Harold Rutland, on page Musical and Literary Homages and Dedications (thanks to Frazer Jarvis), and permalinks for the Sorabji-related items from Rutland’s collection at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance on page Archival Sources for Letters and Other Documents.

2021-01-05: Added references to scores and books with inscriptions from page Discoveries of Manuscripts, Acquisitions and Sales on page Inscriptions in Scores and Books and on Photographs.

2021-01-01: Added volume and issue numbers and dates and pages for the American edition of the Occult Review (different from those of the English edition) based on digizited versions available on the website of the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals.

2020

2020-12-24: Added five previously untraced open letters to the Gramophone and completed missing volume and issue numbers on page Published Essays and Open Letters.

2020-09-28: Updated several pages to take into account the publication of the edition of the Concerto per pianoforte e piccola orchestra, “Simorg-Anka” [no. 7] (1924; 100 pp.) by Jonathan Powell.

2020-07-31: Made minor modifications to five titles to change the character used to separate title from subtitle (dash instead of colon) or the capitalization of a word or subtitle to offer closer matches to the forms used in SCC. The modifications are as follows:

• Désir éperdu (Fragment) (1917; 1 p.); parentheses than a dash.
• Le jardin parfumé—​Poem for Piano Solo (1923; 16 pp.); em dash rather than colon.
• “Il gallo d’oro” da Rimsky-Korsakov: Variazioni frivole con una fuga anarchica, eretica e perversa (1978-79; 93 pp.); capital letter for the subtitle.
• Rapsodie espagnole de Maurice Ravel—​Transcription de concert pour piano (first version, 1923; 16 pp.) and Rapsodie espagnole de Maurice Ravel—​Transcription de concert pour piano (second version, 1945; 26 pp.); em dash and capital letter for the subtitle instead of colon and lowercase letter.
• Villa Tasca: Mezzogiorno siciliano—​​Evocazione nostalgica e memoria tanta cara e preziosa del giardino meraviglioso, splendido, tropicale (1979-80; 47 pp.); capital letters for both subtitles.

On this website, all em dashes are now closed up as in Opus sorabjianum and can be wrapped at the end of lines while keeping the dash connected to the preceding word.

2020-07-01: Created a page entitled Durations of the Sections of the Sequentia cyclia sopra “Dies irae” ex Missa pro defunctis.

2020-06-28: Reordered Sorabji’s works according to the chronological order used in SCC and Opus sorabjianum and completed the rewriting of the introduction on page Chronological List of Works with KSS Numbers and Years of Publication (previously “List of KSS Numbers and Years of Publication”). The KSS numbers used by the Sorabji Archive are still given in the first column, and the works can be so ordered by clicking on the column header.

2020-06-26: Created a page entitled Bar Numbering in the Published Editions.

2020-06-24: Created a page entitled Numbers with Patterns and Problems with Page Numbers, created in part by transferring a number of entries from the page now called Interest in Occultism, Religion, and Eroticism.

2020-06-21: Added a section containing the full texts of the signs and “minatory notices” affixed to the gateposts of The Eye, Sorabji’s house in Corfe Castle on page Places of Residence.

2020-06-16: Revised the first table row (1913-10 to 1917-06) on page Forms of Sorabji’s Name, giving the order numbers assigned to the letters in Brian Inglis and Barry Smith, eds., Kaikhosru Sorabji’s Letters to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) (London: Routledge, 2019).

2020-06-14: Revised section “Multiple Dedications of the Same Work” to reflect the fact that the Frammenti aforistici (Sutras) (104) (1962-64; 37 pp.) were originally dedicated to Harold Morland (now in section “Recipients of Five Dedications”) and only subsequently to Donald M. Garvelmann on page Dedicatees of Musical Works.

2020-04-28: Added links to videos of Phillip Sear playing two piano pieces by Sorabji’s friend Christopher à Becket Williams on page Archival Audio and Video Recordings.

2020-02-03: Added a column marked Exc. for recordings of excerpts from larger works on page Recordings Posted on Video-Hosting Websites.

2019

2019-10-25: Added full dates (when known) in column Date and reordered entries on page Current or Recent Research.

2019-10-18: Added permalinks to many references on page Inscriptions in Scores and Books and on Photographs and simplified references for most items in the Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Collection at McMaster University.

2019-10-06: Revised section “Non-standard forms” in the introduction on page Linguistic, Terminological, and Musical Problems in Titles of Works.

2019-10-01

• Updated about twenty pages to take into account the discovery of the autograph of the Toccata terza (1955; 91 p.) and a previously unknown piano part for the Symphony [no. 1] for Piano, Large Orchestra, Chorus, and Organ (1921-22; 300 pp.).
• Added permalinks, whenever possible, to entries in library catalogues using the tag [citation] for manuscripts and special editions on pages Owners of the Musical Manuscripts and Special Editions of the Published Works.

2019-08-24: Reworked the styling of the four states of links (link, visited, hover, active).

2019-05-30: Revised page English Translations of the Texts Set to Music to add Charles Hopkins’s translations of the texts used by Sorabji in the Cinque sonetti di Michelagniolo Buonarroti (1923; 40 pp.) and the Trois poèmes du “Gulistān” de Saʿdī (1926, rev. 1930; 16 pp.), and added second-level headings, with direct links from the table of contents, for the works containing more than one setting.

2019-05-28: Revised the entry on Mera Sett to offer a terminus post quem for his date of death (1954) on page Musical and Literary Homages and Dedications and removed the warning at the top of five pages about possible problems with the display of musical symbols in browsers, which has become irrelevant.

2019-05-18: Revised of the introduction to page Titles of Works Containing Diacritics and of table “HTML Codes and Entities for Diacritics”.

2019-05-15: Updated several pages to take into account the publication of the edition of the Two Piano Pieces (1918, 1920; 20 pp.) by R. D. [Ramer Davey] Lee.

2019-05-02: Changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 encoding.

2019-04-13: Updated several pages to take into account the publication of the edition of the Symphony no. 0 for Piano Solo (1930-31; 333 pp.) by Abel Sánchez-Aguilera.

•2019-04-02: The Sorabji Resource Site now has a new, secure, URL. Requests to the old address will be automatically redirected.

2018

2018-11-06: Added extensive data on the additional features of three editions of Sorabji’s scores on page Dimensions and Colours of the Published Editions.

2018-08-08: Clarified data on scores with inscriptions by Sorabji in the collections formerly belonging to Felix Harold White and George Woodhouse at the Victoria Library (London) on page Inscriptions in Scores and Books and on Photographs.

2017

2017-12-21: Added a reference to the transfer of Erik Chisholm’s papers to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Archives & Collections on page Archival Sources for Letters and Other Documents, and added a paragraph on the new edition of the Messa grande sinfonica (1955-61; 1,001 pp.) by François Fabre, noting that its page numbers exactly match those of the manuscript on page Structural Outline of the Messa grande sinfonica.

2017-06-20: Added an entry for the BBC magazine Radio Times, in which Sorabji appears to have published what may be an open letter, to the list of journals to which he contributed on page Published Essays and Open Letters; see “Editor’s Notes”, The Musical Times 95, no. 1131 (January 1954): 11-12; 12. This may serve as an incentive for someone with access to a full run of the magazine to take the time to do a systematic search. Sorabji is known to have sent letters, but they may have remained unpublished.

2017-06-01: Added entries for academic papers on Sorabji (Jeremy Chaulk, Sean McMenamin) and various links to other entries, especially editions published by the Sorabji Archive.

2017-04-25: Added two entries (Piano Classics, Pronunziato) on page Record Labels and Their Artists and expanded the entry for Salim Haddad on page Musical and Literary Homages and Dedications.

2016

2016-05-25: Added a link to a photograph of Holford House, where Sorabji played for Busoni in November 1919.

2016-05-24: Updated several pages to take into account the publication of the edition of the Symphonic Nocturne for Piano Alone (1977-78; 113 pp.) by Lukas Huisman.

2016-05-16: Added the durations for nos. 72-83 of the Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.) on page Notes on the Études transcendantes.

2016-01-18: Updated several pages to take into account the publication of the edition of the Third Symphony for Piano Solo (1959-60; 144 pp.) by Abel Sánchez-Aguilera.

2015

2015-10-30: Added the citation for a symposium article on Norman Douglas and Sorabji on page Current or Recent Research.

2015-08-31: Added a “Category” column to the table of sketches on page Sketches and Fragments, allowing a more refined perspective on the list.

2015-08-23: Added a “Format” column (for portrait and landscape orientation) and split the “Colours” column into two to obtain “Colour” (of the cover) and “Lettering” on page Dimensions and Colours of the Published Editions.

2015-06-25: Added several links to websites on page Biographical Notes.

•2015-06-18

• The Sorabji Resource Site has undergone a major software upgrade with the implementation of SpryMedia’s DataTables, which is Allan Jardine’s remarkable MIT-licensed very powerful table plug-in for jQuery. All tables, which now have a slightly different for the column headings, can be sorted on multiple columns by shift-clicking on more columns after the first sort operation. This has made it possible to use one table instead of two on pages First Performances and First Performances of the Études transcendantes, which used to be ordered first by date, then by performer. Multiple-column sorting now makes it very easy to view the data from different perspectives.
• A search box at the top of each table now makes it possible to find data in an entire table. The number of entries displayed out of the total always appears at the bottom of each table. In all but a few cases, additional search boxes at the bottom enable searching within a particular column. In both cases, enclosing search strings in quotation will locate exact matches.
• Several tables (especially their first columns) have been modified to allow better sorting by inverting personal names or moving the initial article of a title at the end.
• In some cases, especially for columns consisting of extended textual matter, sorting capabilities may seem overkill and, in other cases, may produce odd results. Sorting could be disabled for such columns, but this has not been done, at least not yet, as there may be cases where it would be useful.

2015-06-16: Added a column giving the durations of Fredrik Ullén’s performances of the Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.), as well as the ability to sort, on page Notes on the Études transcendantes.

2015-06-11: Added several internal links for multiple, joint, and transferred dedications on page Dedicatees of Musical Works.

2015-06-10: Added a column (in second position), for sorting purposes, indicating previous publication on page Contents of Around Music and Mi contra fa.

2015-05-07: Added data for the first performance of the Movement for Voice and Piano (1927, 1931; 9 pp.) on page First Performances.

2015-05-06

• Created a page entitled Sketches and Fragments, which gives a full description of thirty-five pages of sketches (dating from ca. 1955 to ca. 1976) and of four fragments taken from letters and inscriptions in scores.
• With the addition of this page, the Sorabji Resource Site consists of 102 pages that, if printed, would make a book of 563 pages at a readable size. By comparison, Opus sorabjianum contains 613 pages (including preliminaries).

2015-04-24: Added references to letters by Sorabji held at the Cambridge University Library and the Victoria Library (Westminster Music Library) as well as on the website of Brian David Williams on page Archival Sources for Letters and Other Documents.

2015-04-10: Added indications of editions known to be in progress (with a date of 2999 for sorting purposes) on pages List of KSS Numbers and Years of Publication and Unperformed Works (by means of a bullet in square brackets).

2015-04-08: Updated several pages to take into account the publication of the edition of the Sonata no. 0 for Piano (1917; 30 pp.) by Frazer Jarvis.

2015-04-07: Added a table in the introduction showing the number of scores and pages edited in each year in which publications were issued since 1969 on page Editors of Music Scores.

2015-03-09: Added after the titles the numbers (in Roman numerals) of the movements featuring section titles like “Arabesque-Nocturne” on page Section Titles Used in Multi-Movement Works.

2015-02-27: Added a link to a photograph of Franz Toussaint, whose translation Sorabji used for the Trois poèmes du “Gulistān” de Saʿdī (1926, rev. 1930; 16 pp.), on page References to Photographs of People and Places Connected with Sorabji.

2015-02-25: Added a list of libraries with substantial holdings of manuscripts and editions of Sorabji’s works and of recordings of his works with links to their online catalogues on page Archival Sources for Letters and Other Documents.

2015-02-11: Updated several pages to reflect the publication of the edition of the Tāntrik Symphony for Piano Alone (1938-39; 284 pp.) by Abel Sánchez-Aguilera.

2015-01-07

• Created a page entitled Interpretative Directions in the Third Symphony for Piano Solo.
• Reordered the third section of menu entry “Works” to list the works in chronological order.

2015-01-02: Added data for the first performance of the fifth movement of the Toccata quarta (1964-67; 149 pp.) on page First Performances and changed the wording for the announcement of the performance that was to take place on page Unperformed Works.

2014

2014-12-19: Added ten quotations on page Favourite Expressions and Notable Quotations, including two with 188 and 229 words, respectively.

2014-11-24: Added data for the first performance of the Frammento cantato (1967; 1 p.) on page First Performances and removed the announcement of the performance that was to take place from page Unperformed Works.

2014-11-11: Revised the introductory section and added entries for five collectible items sold at auction by Bonhams between 12 June 2012 and 23 April 2013 on page Discoveries and Acquisitions and Sales of Manuscripts.

2014-11-03

• Split two of the sections on page Owners of the Musical Manuscripts into chronological subsections.
• Inserted a third column for the texts of a technical or analytical nature reproduced in SCC on page Analytical Texts in Scores.

2014-10-31

• Extensively revised the section about Donald Garvelmann’s WNCN radio programme of 1970, and added a detailed list of contents of its archived recording on page Archival Audio and Video Recordings.
• Added a section for Alexander Abercrombie’s edition of the Fourth Symphony for Piano Alone (1962-64; 240 pp.) on page Tables of Contents of the Published Editions.

2014-10-27:

• Repositioned some titles according to the date of composition and others under the correct language, and added missing titles, bringing the total to 117 instead of 113 works (with updating of the figures in the table in the introductory section) on page Titles of Works Grouped by Language.
• Tweaked the three-colour logo that appears at the top of each page.

2014-10-15: Just in time for the 26th anniversary of Sorabji’s death, implemented a new JavaScript to calculate the number of years, months, and days elapsed since his birth and death in relation to the current date on page Sundry Facts about Dates. This (hopefully) solves the inconsistencies that occurred in some contexts with the previous script. Unfortunately, finding a date calculation script that works flawlessly is easier said than done.

2014-10-04

• Added an update to items 1-4 (providing citations for Sorabji’s early open letters to The New Age) of my compilation An Annotated Bibliography of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s Collected Published Writings on page Published Essays and Open Letters.
• Added information about a database of The New Age under the editorship of Alfred Richard Orage prepared by the Modernist Journals Project in the introduction on page Contributions to The New Age and The New English Weekly.

2014-10-03: Added several links to personal or society websites of people associated with Sorabji on page Biographical Notes.

2014-10-01: Reformatted page Correspondents from double- to single-spacing and added section headings using the alphabetical sequence of letters. The latter change was also applied on page Biographical Notes.

2014-09-12: Revised the second musical example in section “Ossias for the Opening and Ending of pars prima of Opus clavicembalisticum” on page Ossias and Crossed-out or Inserted Passages by removing the time signature.

2014-09-10: Revised most of the introductory texts shown in boxes at the top of each page to simplify the wording, break long sentences into shorter ones, provide bulleted lists when appropriate, etc. The improvements are rather microscopic, but still desirable.

2014-08-27: Capitalized the particle in the name of the pianist Aldo Solito De Solis, which is used as a basis for alphabetization.

2014-08-06

• Created a page entitled Recordings Posted on Video-Hosting Website.
• Added a paragraph about the indexing of Opus sorabjianum on page Presentation of Opus sorabjianum: The Life and Works of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji and Download Link, including screenshots of the two custom macros written to create the index.

2014-08-01: Reorganized sections on page Archival Audio and Video Recordings and created a section entitled “Friends and Acquaintances”, which now includes a link to a recording of Erik Chisholm’s voice alongside a portrait of Hugh MacDiarmid.

2014-07-29: Added a section (with two entries) for Le jardin parfumé: Poem for Piano Solo (1923; 16 pp.) on page Related Works by Other Composers.

2014-06-03

• Added subheadings showing the dates of Sorabji’s creative periods on page Titles of Works Grouped by Language to make it easier to see his language preferences for titles.
• Reordered the data in the section on the critical writings on page Microfilms and Bibliographic Compilations and added subheadings.

2014-05-29: Added several tables, among others for the new editions of the three organ symphonies by Kevin Bowyer, on page Tables of Contents of the Published Editions.

2014-04-24: Added the JavaScript code needed to display (in the introductory section) the number of years, months, and days elapsed since Sorabji’s birth and death as of the current date on page Sundry Facts about Dates. It is now possible to see how far we are from being able to commemorate an important milestone.

2014-04-01: Recoded the hyperlinks (including the internal ones) to open in the same window, except for files that are non-Web documents, such as PDF and DOC files.

2014-03-31: Expanded the download link for Opus sorabjianum on each page’s footer to include version number and release date, enabling visitors to easily see if the book has been updated.

2014-03-25: Added a table on Sorabji’s use of glissandos and sympathetic vibrations (i.e., groups of notes depressed silently) on page Advanced Keyboard Writing.

2014-03-19: Added a table to include data for Alberto Vignani’s recent edition of the Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra (1935-37, 1953-56; 540 pp.) on page Tables of Contents of the Published Editions.

2014-03-17: Added a column giving the number of pages of the editions (music only) on page Editors of Music Scores.

2014-03-05: Created a page entitled Time and Key Signatures, Metronomic Indications, Numbered Ideas.

2014-03-05: Completed the years of birth and/or death for David Branson, George Bethell Datch, Terence White Gervais, Francis Michael Guercio, Harold Vincent Marrot, and Walter Ernest Ottaway on page Biographical Notes.

2014-03-03: Added a column (with sorting capabilities) providing the number of pages for the essays in the two tables on page Contents of Around Music and Mi contra fa.

2014-02-28: To reflect the 1996 reform of German spelling and the form considered official by the authoritative Duden dictionary, the first word of the title Schlussszene aus “Salome” von Richard Strauss—​Konzertmäßige Übertragung für Klavier zu zwei Händen (1947; 25 pp.) is now written as shown here instead of Schluß-Szene. See the relevant note on page Titles of Works Containing Diacritics.

2013

2013-11-27

• Revised the entry for Emily Edroff-Smith and added an entry for W. E. Ottaway on page Biographical Notes.
• Added an entry for the Old Saddlery in References to Photographs of People and Places Connected with Sorabji to give details of Ottaway’s shop in Corfe Castle and a link to an image.

2013-11-05

• Added audio recordings from the archives of the late Robert William Procter for four of Harold Morland’s Sorabji-related poems, the text of which can be found on page Harold Morland’s Poems and Poetic Letters.
• Reorganized page Archival Audio and Video Recordings.

2013-10-03: Created two pages to the “Opus sorabjianum” menu entry: Sound Files for the Musical Examples (posting of version 1.00) and Illustrations.

2013-09-11: Added a section entitled “Books and Contributions to Edited Books” on page Published Essays and Open Letters.

2013-08-14: Added a section (“Opus sorabjianum”, in bold type) to the menu structure to house material related to the publication of Opus sorabjianum: The Life and Works of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, the long-awaited biography of Sorabji by the author of this website. The main page of this section is entitled Presentation of Opus sorabjianum: The Life and Works of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji and Download Link. The publication of version 1.00 comes on the very of day of Sorabji’s 121th birth anniversary and two years after the inauguration of the Sorabji Resource Site. The official announcement can be found on the Sorabji Forum.

2013-05-31: Added links to PDF versions of musical scores in the public domain available on IMSLP, as welll as more links to literary texts, on page Musical and Literary Sources (with Links to Online Versions).

2013-04-29: Added a column for the year of publication of the latest edition on page List of KSS Numbers and Years of Publication.

2013-01-21: Added (between square brackets after the heading) the most common form (in normal order) of the names of the people mentioned on page Biographical Notes to facilitate internet searches using quotation marks.

2012

2012-11-12: Added a page entitled Travels and Holidays.

2012-10-09: Added a page entitled Structure of the Triple Fugue of the Variazioni e fuga triplice sopra “Dies irae”.

2012-04-18: Renamed a page to Linguistic and Musical Problems in Titles of Works and substantially revised the introductory paragraphs and added two titles to reflect the coverage of musical problems.

•2012-04-18: Modified the titles of four works:

• The Symphony II for Piano, Large Orchestra, Organ, Final Chorus, and Six Solo Voices (1930-31; 333 pp.), which has remained a work for piano solo, becomes the Symphony no. 0 for Piano Solo (1930-31; 333 pp.).
• A distinction is now made between the Symphonic Variations for Piano (1935-37; 484 pp.), the title of which corresponds to the original work for piano solo, and the Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra (1935-37, 1953-56; 540 pp.), the title of which corresponds to the second version with orchestra, by dropping the “[and Orchestra]” previously used in the first version’s title.
• Following a thorough revision by Alistair Hinton and myself, the number of pages of Symphony [no. 3], “Jāmī”, for Large Orchestra, Wordless Chorus, and Baritone Solo (1942-51; 824 pp.) is now 824 instead of 826. In addition, the work will henceforth be designated with “[no. 2]” rather than “[no. 3]” now that the title Symphony II no longer exists among the “orchestral” works. The new title is thus Symphony [no. 2], “Jāmī”, for Large Orchestra, Wordless Chorus, and Baritone Solo (1942-51; 826 pp.).
• A minor (but logical) linguistic change is that “divertirmi” is now used instead of “divertirsi”, hence the title Concerto da suonare da me solo e senza orchestra, per divertirmi (1946; 70 pp.).

2012-03-28: Added several entries (not of recent items) on page Discoveries and Acquisitions and Sales of Manuscripts.

2012-03-21: Added several entries on page Reproductions of Manuscripts in Printed Sources and Library Catalogues.

2012-03-19: Added a page entitled Literary Tastes, containing an extensive list of nearly 190 books read by Sorabji between 1930 and 1953 (with author’s name, years of birth and death, subject, source, and reference).

2012-01-20: Reordered the menu entries and inserted separators (from two to six) to achieve clearer grouping and make it easier for the eye to find a topic, especially in the substantial “Sources” section.

2012-01-20: Added a page entitled Related Works by Other Composers, listing earlier or later settings by other composers of texts used by Sorabji in his songs or, in the case of works based on pre-existing material, transcriptions or uses of the same works.

2011

2011-11-08: Added an extensive entry on Hugh MacDiarmid on page Archival Audio and Video Recordings.

2011-08-31: Added a page entitled Tables of Contents of the Published Editions, providing initial page numbers of movements or sections for all the published editions of the sectional works, in addition to similar data provided for the manuscripts in Paul Rapoport’s catalogue of works in SCC, 109-74.

2011-07-04: Added a page entitled Interest in Occultism, Religion, Numerology, and Eroticism.

2011-05-13: Added links to online versions of texts that have inspired Sorabji on page Musical and Literary Sources.

2011-04-20: Added annotations providing data such as publication years, founders, editors, editorial stance, etc. for most periodicals in which Sorabji published articles and open letters on page Musical and Non-Musical Journals.

2011-04-18: Added a page entitled List of KSS Numbers, showing the correspondence between the KSS numbers assigned to Sorabji’s works by the Sorabji Archive and the titles used on the Sorabji Resource Site.

2011-04-14: Deleted the entry for the Symphonia brevis for Piano (1973; 120 pp.) from page Works Performed but not Recorded and added page Track Timings of the Altarus and Continuum Recordings following the release of the Altarus AIR-CD-9064(2) by Donna Amato.

2011-03-31: Added the names of translators and change the layout of the years of birth and death on page Poets Set to Music from one to two columns to allow sorting by date and to make it easier to see which authors are still under copyright.

2011-03-18

• Reformatted page Musical and Literary Sources by adding bullets of entries with multiple sources.
• Changed the layout on page Unperformed Works by adding a middle column (Edition) making it possible to group the works for which a printed edition is available by sorting them.

2011-03-10: Added several links to images available from Wikipedia Commons and from the National Portrait Gallery (London) on page References to Photographs of People and Places Connected with Sorabji.

2011-03-07: Substantially modified the entry for Alvin Langdon Coburn on page Photographers and Artists, providing a link to a reconstruction of his book Musicians of Mark.

2010

2010-08-25: Added a substantial section entitled “1992: Use of the Latin Language in Paul Rapoport’s Sorabji: A Critical Celebration” on page Humour, Popular Culture, Trivia, Etc.

2010-08-19: Added a page entitled Works Performed but not Recorded.

2010-08-18: Added sections entitled “Age of Sorabji’s Parents at the Time of Their Marriage (18 February 1892)” and “Age at Significant Steps of His Life” on page Sundry Facts about Dates.

2010-08-18: Google has finished indexing the Sorabji Resource Site.

2010-08-11: Marc-André Roberge announces on the Sorabji Forum and on the Yahoo! Sorabji Group the launch of the Sorabji Resource Site in time for Sorabji’s 118th birthday on 14 August.

2009

2009-08-31: At the end of his sabbatical year, Marc-André Roberge feels that his Sorabji Resource Site is complete but for a few minor details, but decides to wait for the right moment to make it public.

2009-08-14: On the 117th anniversary of Sorabji’s birth, Marc-André Roberge invites Alistair Hinton to navigate, confidentially, on the sea of data on the composer’s life and works that the Sorabji Resource Site represents. He will be the first person to have access to the site and comment on it. His suggestions for corrections and improvements have been incorporated.

2008

2008-04-07: Marc-André Roberge starts coding the first page of the Sorabji Resource Site.

2008-03-17: Marc-André Roberge starts working on a table of contents (or list of topics to be included).

2007

2007-11-06: The Dean of the Faculty of Music of Laval University (Québec) approves Marc-André Roberge’s project for a sabbatical year, which includes the creation of a research website on Sorabji.

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