Analysis
- Powell's official biographer, Hilary Spurling, has published Invitation to the Dance – a Handbook to Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. This annotates, in dictionary form, the characters, events, art, music, and other references. She has also calculated the timeline employed by the author: this is used in the synopses linked from the novels below.
- The various aspects of the novel-sequence are also analysed in "An Index to 'A Dance to the Music of Time'" by B.J.Moule. See External Links below.
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