Anne Kennedy — Musica Ficta

University of Queensland Press 1993 Paperback, 205pp. This engaging and thought provoking fable travels time and space to chart the discovery and history of musica ficta - the story of inventiveness, happy accidents and the power of the imagination. With ingenuity, great humour, and marvellous wordplay that mimics the expressiveness of music, Musica Ficta deftly interweaves and meshes strands of narrative - the Twelth-Century mystic St Hildegard, a prince who wants to be a jongleur, the struggles of Beethoven and Mozart, the decomposing world of James Joyce and the problem of multiple points of view, the rituals of psychoanalysis - to create a captivating allegory of Western history, civilisation, spirituality and creativity. Tanning & foxing. (ISBN: 9781869400866). Good.