¹ Davies was an outspoken critic of British politicians. See ‘Peter Maxwell Davies says Queen has Converted him to a Monarchist’, Telegraph.co.uk, 19 May 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2019. His vehement objection to the Iraq War fed into the Third Naxos String Quartet (2003).

² ‘For the most part, [Davies’ writings and spoken word] have not been subjected to the same level of scrutiny as his music. Selected Writings, 1. It is worth noting, however, that Jones himself contributed a chapter on Davies’ writings in Peter Maxwell Davies Studies, eds. Kenneth Gloag and Nicholas Jones (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 21–44.

³ The term ‘written’ is used here to encompass both Davies’ writings and spoken material (such as interviews, lectures and broadcasts) which have been subsequently transcribed.

⁴ The scandal of accounting which consumed the MaxOpus website was well documented in the national press. See, for example, Paul Cheston, ‘Agent Faces Jail for Stealing £½m from Queen’s Composer’, The Evening Standard, Wednesday, 21 October 2009.

⁵ See entries 45 and 46.

⁶ Selected Writings, 170.

⁷ Ibid., 152.

⁸ Selected Writings, 33–4.

⁹ Ibid., 299–305.

¹⁰ Ibid., 162.