MusicWeb International One of the most grown-up review sites around 2024
60,000 reviews
... and still writing ...

Search MusicWeb Here Acte Prealable Polish CDs
 

Presto Music CD retailer
 
Founder: Len Mullenger                                    Editor in Chief:John Quinn             


Some items
to consider

new MWI
Current reviews

old MWI
pre-2023 reviews

paid for
advertisements

Acte Prealable Polish recordings

Forgotten Recordings
Forgotten Recordings
All Forgotten Records Reviews

TROUBADISC
Troubadisc Weinberg- TROCD01450

All Troubadisc reviews


FOGHORN Classics

Alexandra-Quartet
Brahms String Quartets

All Foghorn Reviews


All HDTT reviews


Songs to Harp from
the Old and New World


all Nimbus reviews



all tudor reviews


Follow us on Twitter


Editorial Board
MusicWeb International
Founding Editor
   
Rob Barnett
Editor in Chief
John Quinn
Contributing Editor
Ralph Moore
Webmaster
   David Barker
Postmaster
Jonathan Woolf
MusicWeb Founder
   Len Mullenger

List of Writings by Cyril Scott
Compiled by Leslie De'Ath

1. Autobiography
1924* My Years of Indiscretion
London: Mills and Boon, 282p (repr.2001, Best Books)
1969* Bone of Contention: Life Story and Confessions
London: Aquarian Press / New York: Arco, 242p

2. Music
1917* The Philosophy of Modernism (In its Connection with Music)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 135p (also 1925, London: Waverly, together with Eaglefield Hull’s biography)
1919 Percy Grainger - A Course in Contemporary Musical Biography
New York: G.Schirmer
1928* The Influence of Music on History and Morals: A Vindication of Plato
London: Theosophical Publishing House, 245p
1933* Music: Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages
London: Rider, 221p (2nd ed, 1950)
- reprinted many times and translated into other languages

3. Occultism and theology

1920* The Initiate: Some Impressions of a Great Soul
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 396p
1920 The Adept of Galilee: A Story and an Argument, by the Author of “The Initiate”
London: G.Routledge & Sons / New York, E.P. Dutton, 434p
(A rare book, because most of the run of the only edition was lost when the storage facility was bombed.)
1927* The Initiate in the New World: The Sequel to The Initiate
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul / New York, E.P. Dutton, 302p
1932* The Initiate in the Dark Cycle: A Sequel to “The Initiate” and to “The Initiate in the New World”
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 215p
(the Initiate trilogy was reprinted in 1971 by Samuel Weiser, York Beach, Maine)
1933* The Vision of the Nazarene
London, G.Routledge & Sons, 126p (repr. 1975, New York: Samuel Weiser)
1935* An Outline of Modern Occultism
London: G.Routledge / New York: E.P.Dutton 239p (2nd ed, 1950)
1936* The Greater Awareness: A Sequel to An Outline of Modern Occultism
London: G.Routledge & Sons / New York: E.P.Dutton, 243p
1942* The Christian Paradox: What is, as Against What Should Have Been
London/New York/Melbourne: Rider, 144p 
1953* The Boy who Saw True
London/New York: Peter Nevill, 248p
1956* Occultism: An Alternative to Scientific Humanism. A Lecture....
London: L.N. Fowler, 16p (repr.1996) 

4. Homeopathy

1938* Doctors, Disease, and Health: A Critical Survey of Therapeutics, Modern and Ancient
London: Methuen / Cleveland: Sherwood, 283p (2nd ed, 1946)
1939 Victory Over Cancer Without Radium or Surgery: A Book Dealing with Cancer Causation, Cancer Prevention, and Cancer Cures for Laymen and Doctors
London: Methuen, 271p (2nd ed, 1957)
1940 Health, Diet and Commonsense
London: Andrew Dakers, 191p (2nd ed, 1944)
1946* Medicine Rational and Irrational
London: True Health, 224p
1947* Crude Black Molasses: Nature’s Wonder Food
London: True Health, 36p (many further editions)
1948* Cider Vinegar: Nature’s Great Health Promoter and Safest Treatment [Cure] of Obesity
London, Athene, 40p (6th ed, 1968)
1953* Simpler and Safer Remedies for Grievous Ills
London: Athene, 110p
1955* Sleeplessness: Its Prevention and Cure by Harmless Methods
London: Athene, 32p
1956 Constipation and Common Sense
London: Athene, 40p (2nd ed, 1969)
1968 Cancer Prevention: Fallacies and Some Reassuring Facts
London: Athene, 48p

5. Ethics / The human condition
1921 The Autobiography of a Child: Written from the Psycho-sexual-analytical Standpoint for Doctors, Teachers, and Psychologists
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Trubner, 389p
1928 The Art of Making a Perfect Husband. By a Husband
London: Noel Douglas, 130p
1930 Childishness: A Study in Adult Conduct
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 102p
1939* Man is my Theme: A Study of National and Individual Conduct
London: Andrew Dakers, 303p
1953 Man, the Unruly Child
London: Aquarian Press

6. Humour
1939 The Ghost of a Smile
London: Andrew Dakers, 199p

7. Poetry
n.d. The Shadows of Silence and the Songs of Yesterday
Liverpool: Donald Fraser
1907 The Grave of Eros and The Book of Mournful Melodies with Dreams from the East
Liverpool: Donald Fraser / London, J.M. Watkins
1910* The Voice of the Ancient
London: J.M. Watkins, 63p
1912 The Vales of Unity
London: David Nutt, 56p
1915 The Celestial Aftermath, A Springtide of the Heart, and Far-away Songs
London: Chatto & Windus, 68p 

8. Poetry translation

1909 Beaudelaire, Charles. The Flowers of Evil (= Les fleurs du mal)
London: Elkin Mathews, 63p
1910 Stefan George: Selection from his Works (Vigo cabinet series 71)
London: Elkin Mathews, 63p
1952 Die Tragödie Stefan Georges: Ein Erinnerungsbild und ein Gang durch sein Werk
Eltville am Rhein: Lothar Hempe (transl. Ilse Schneider), 91p

9. Other
As a deemed authority on spiritualism and homeopathy, Scott provided introductions to several books by other authors. In the case of David Anrias’s Through the Eyes of the Masters: Meditations and Portraits.... (1932, London: G. Routledge & Sons), Scott’s introduction comprises over half the volume.

January, 2005
 


Advertising on
Musicweb


Donate and keep us afloat

 

New Releases

Naxos Classical
All Naxos reviews

Hyperion recordings
All Hyperion reviews

Foghorn recordings
All Foghorn reviews

Troubadisc recordings
All Troubadisc reviews



all Bridge reviews


all cpo reviews

Divine Art recordings
Click to see New Releases
Get 10% off using code musicweb10
All Divine Art reviews


All Eloquence reviews

Lyrita recordings
All Lyrita Reviews

 

Wyastone New Releases
Obtain 10% discount

Subscribe to our free weekly review listing

 

 


 



Error processing SSI file