Contexts and concepts. Tippett and twentieth-century polarities / Arnold Whittall ; Tippett and the English traditions / Christopher Mark ; "Things that chiefly interest me" : Tippett and early music / Suzanne Cole ; Tippett and politics : the 1930s and beyond / Joanna Bullivant ; "Coming out to oneself" : encodings of homosexual identity from the first string quartet to The heart's assurance / Suzanne Robinson ; Between image and imagination : Tippett's creative process / Thomas Schuttenhelm
Works and genres. Tippett's "great divide" : before and after King Priam / Iain Stannard ; "Symphonic music in our modern times" : Tippett and the symphony / Edward Venn ; Tippett and the concerto : from double to triple / Kenneth Gloag ; The four piano sonatas : past and present tensions / Alastair Borthwick ; Formal archetypes, revered masters and singing nightingales : Tippett's string quartets / Nicholas Jones ; Tippett's operatic world : from The midsummer marriage to New Year / Kenneth Gloag ; Words and music / Edward Venn.