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A Dance to the Music of Time

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A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin and published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. [1]

81 relations: A Buyer's Market, A Dance to the Music of Time (painting), A Question of Upbringing, Abigail Cruttenden, Adrian Scarborough, Alan Bennett, Aleister Crowley, Alex Jennings, Alvin Rakoff, Annabel Mullion, Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly's, Barbara Skelton, BBC Radio 4, Bernard Montgomery, Books Do Furnish a Room, C. P. Snow, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, Christopher Good, Christopher H. Bidmead, Christopher Morahan, Claire Skinner, Classic Serial, Constant Lambert, Corin Redgrave, Cyril Connolly, David Oakes, Denis Capel-Dunn, Denis Pritt, Douglas Byng, Emma Fielding, Eric Allan, Ernest Barker, Everyman, F. R. Leavis, Francis Fortescue Urquhart, Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, Gareth Johnson, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, George Orwell, Hearing Secret Harmonies, Henry Green, Hilary Spurling, Hubert Duggan, James Purefoy, Jane Asher, John Galsworthy, John Standing, Jonathan Cake, Julian MacLaren-Ross, ..., Kenneth Widmerpool, Mark Heap, Maurice Bowra, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Modern Library, Nicola Walker, Nicolas Poussin, Noël Coward, Noel Johnson, Paul Brooke, Paul Rhys, Peter Quennell, Preston Lockwood, Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, Ronan Vibert, Sarah Badel, Siân Phillips, Simon Cadell, Simon Russell Beale, Spanish Civil War, Stephen Spender, Tamara Ustinov, Temporary Kings, The Acceptance World, The Kindly Ones (Powell novel), The Military Philosophers, The Soldier's Art, The Valley of Bones, Time (magazine), Violet Powell, Wallace Collection. Expand index (31 more) »

A Buyer's Market

A Buyer's Market is the second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel series, A Dance to the Music of Time.

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A Dance to the Music of Time (painting)

A Dance to the Music of Time is a painting by Nicolas Poussin in the Wallace Collection in London.

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A Question of Upbringing

A Question of Upbringing is the opening novel in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-volume cycle spanning much of the 20th century.

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Abigail Cruttenden

Abigail Lucy Cruttenden (born 23 March 1968) is an English actress.

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Adrian Scarborough

Adrian Philip Scarborough (born 10 May 1968) is an English actor, most widely known for film roles including The King's Speech and television appearances including the sitcom Gavin & Stacey and his role as the butler Mr.

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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author.

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Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.

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Alex Jennings

Alex Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor, who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre.

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Alvin Rakoff

Alvin Rakoff (born February 18, 1927) is a Canadian television, stage, and film director who has spent the bulk of his career in England and directed more than 100 television plays, as well as a dozen feature films and numerous stage productions.

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Annabel Mullion

Annabel Clare Mullion (born 1969) is an Anglo-Irish actress.

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Anthony Powell

Anthony Dymoke Powell (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975.

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At Lady Molly's

At Lady Molly's is the fourth volume in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.

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Barbara Skelton

Barbara Skelton (26 June 1916 – 27 January 1996) was an English memoirist, novelist and socialite.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War.

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Books Do Furnish a Room

Books Do Furnish a Room is a novel by Anthony Powell, the tenth in the twelve-novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.

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C. P. Snow

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was a novelist and English physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.

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Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is a novel by Anthony Powell.

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Christopher Good

Christopher Good is an English actor best known for his work on television.

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Christopher H. Bidmead

Christopher Hamilton Bidmead (born 18 January 1941) is a British writer and journalist.

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Christopher Morahan

Christopher Thomas Morahan CBE (9 July 1929 – 7 April 2017) was an English stage and television director and production executive.

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Claire Skinner

Claire Skinner (born 1965) is an English actress, known in the United Kingdom for her television career, particularly playing Sue Brockman from the BBC television series Outnumbered.

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Classic Serial

The Classic Serial is a strand on BBC Radio 4 in which classics of English literature are adapted into series of one-hour dramas.

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Constant Lambert

Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 190521 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author.

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Corin Redgrave

Corin William Redgrave (16 July 19396 April 2010) was an English actor and far-left political activist.

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Cyril Connolly

Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer.

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David Oakes

Rowan David Oakes (born 14 October 1983) is an English film, television, and theatre actor known for his roles in The Pillars of the Earth, The Borgias, and The White Queen.

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Denis Capel-Dunn

Denis Cuthbert Capel-Dunn (1903 – 4 July 1945) was a British lawyer and military bureaucrat immortalised by Anthony Powell in many aspects of the character of Kenneth Widmerpool, the anti-hero of Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time sequence of novels.

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Denis Pritt

Denis Nowell Pritt, QC (22 September 1887 – 23 May 1972) was a British barrister and Labour Party politician.

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Douglas Byng

Portrait by Allan Warren Douglas Coy Byng (17 March 1893 – 24 August 1987) was an English comic singer and songwriter in West End theatre, revue and cabaret.

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Emma Fielding

Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born 10 July 1966 in Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actress.

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Eric Allan

Eric Allan (born 8 March 1940) is a British actor.

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Ernest Barker

Sir Ernest Barker (23 September 1874 – 17 February 1960) was an English political scientist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927.

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Everyman

In literature and drama, the term everyman has come to mean an ordinary individual with whom the audience or reader is supposed to be able to identify easily and who is often placed in extraordinary circumstances.

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F. R. Leavis

Frank Raymond "F.

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Francis Fortescue Urquhart

Francis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934) was an English academic, the first Roman Catholic to act as a tutorial fellow in the University of Oxford since the 16th century.

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Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford

Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 1st Baron Pakenham, (5 December 1905 – 3 August 2001), known to his family as Frank Longford and styled Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer.

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Gareth Johnson

Gareth Alan Johnson (born 12 October 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician.

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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, and commonly as Lord Curzon, was a British Conservative statesman.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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Hearing Secret Harmonies

Hearing Secret Harmonies is the final novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time.

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Henry Green

Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke (29 October 1905 – 13 December 1973), an English author best remembered for the novels Party Going, Living and Loving.

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Hilary Spurling

Hilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL (born 25 December 1940) is a British writer, known for her work as a journalist and biographer.

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Hubert Duggan

Hubert John Duggan (24 July 1904 – 25 October 1943) was a British Army officer and politician, who was Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Acton from 1931 until his death.

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James Purefoy

James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor, producer and director.

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Jane Asher

Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress, author, and entrepreneur, who achieved early fame as a child actress, and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.

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John Standing

Sir John Ronald Leon Standing, 4th Baronet (born John Ronald Leon; 16 August 1934) is an English actor.

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Jonathan Cake

Jonathan James Cake (born 31 August 1967) is an English actor who has worked on various TV programmes and films.

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Julian MacLaren-Ross

Julian Maclaren-Ross (7 July 1912 – 3 November 1964) was a British novelist.

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Kenneth Widmerpool

Kenneth Widmerpool is a fictional character in Anthony Powell's novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time, a 12-volume account of upper-class and bohemian life in Britain between 1920 and 1970.

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Mark Heap

Mark Heap (born 13 May 1957) is an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedies such as Spaced, Brass Eye, Big Train, Jam, Green Wing, Upstart Crow and Friday Night Dinner.

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Maurice Bowra

Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra CH, FBA (8 April 1898 – 4 July 1971) was an English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit.

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Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964) was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century.

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Modern Library

The Modern Library is an American publishing company.

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Nicola Walker

Nicola Walker (born 15 May 1970) is an English actress, known for her starring roles in various British television programmes from the 1990s onwards, including Ruth Evershed in the spy drama Spooks from 2003 to 2011.

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Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Noel Johnson

Noel Frank Johnson (28 December 1916 – 1 October 1999) was an English actor.

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Paul Brooke

Paul Brooke (born 22 November 1944) is a retired English actor of film, television and radio.

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Paul Rhys

Paul Rhys (born 19 December 1963) is a Welsh television, film and theatre actor.

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Peter Quennell

Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE (9 March 1905 – 27 October 1993) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic.

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Preston Lockwood

Reginald Herbert Lockwood (30 October 1912 – 24 April 1996), known professionally as Preston Lockwood, was an English actor.

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Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne

Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, (1 August 1905 – 7 September 1980), known as Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Bt, from 1954 to 1962 and as The Lord Dilhorne from 1962 to 1964, was an English lawyer and Conservative politician.

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Ronan Vibert

Ronan Vibert (born 1964) is an English actor, known for his appearances on British television.

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Sarah Badel

Sarah Badel (born 30 March 1943) is a British stage and film actress.

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Siân Phillips

Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips, (born 14 May 1933), known professionally as Siân Phillips, is a Welsh actress, author and singer.

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Simon Cadell

Simon John Cadell (19 July 1950 – 6 March 1996) was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of Jeffrey Fairbrother in the first five series of the BBC situation comedy Hi-de-Hi!.

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Simon Russell Beale

Simon Russell Beale, CBE (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor, author and music historian.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española),Also known as The Crusade (La Cruzada) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War (Cuarta Guerra Carlista) among Carlists, and The Rebellion (La Rebelión) or Uprising (Sublevación) among Republicans.

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Stephen Spender

Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist, and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.

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Tamara Ustinov

Tamara "Tammy" Ustinov (born 1945) is a British actress known for appearing in the films The Blood on Satan's Claw (1970), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), and The Last Horror Movie (2003), and television series such as Skorpion and Bergerac.

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Temporary Kings

Temporary Kings is a novel by Anthony Powell, the penultimate in his twelve-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time.

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The Acceptance World

The Acceptance World is the third book of Anthony Powell's twelve novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.

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The Kindly Ones (Powell novel)

The Kindly Ones (1962) is a novel by Anthony Powell that forms the sixth in his twelve-volume sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.

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The Military Philosophers

The Military Philosophers is the ninth of Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.

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The Soldier's Art

The Soldier's Art is the eighth novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume masterpiece A Dance to the Music of Time, and the second in the war trilogy.

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The Valley of Bones

The Valley of Bones is the seventh novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume series A Dance to the Music of Time.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Violet Powell

Lady Violet Georgiana Powell (née Pakenham; 13 March 1912 – 12 January 2002) was a writer and critic.

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Wallace Collection

The Wallace Collection is an art collection in London open to the public, housed at Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dance_to_the_Music_of_Time

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