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Various drafts, Sep-Nov 1954, n.d.

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MSS. Mus. b. 374-375

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MS. Mus. b. 374: Titled (or otherwise identifiable) works, unfinished, or only known from these incomplete manuscripts, 68 leaves, Sep-Nov 1954, n.d.

  1. (fols. 1-2v) Cataman songs. Rough pencil draft, completed.
  2. (fols. 3-13v) ['The retired cat'], setting of William Cowper's poem. Pencil sketches for voice and piano.
  3. (fols. 14-22) String trio. Piano rough draft, ?completed. With unrelated sketches on fols. 22v, 24v and 25v.
  4. (fols. 26-27) Winter. ('These are my words: The stag bells, winter snows ...'). For voice, Chinese bell, xylophone, triangle and maracas. Part of larger work? Pencil draft.
  5. (fols. 28-38v) Concertino for piano and strings. Abandoned? Blue and red ballpoint and pencil sketches.
  6. (fols. 39-42) Concertino for clarinet and strings. Pencil draft score of Adagio (fols. 39-41), dated at end, 'Sept.-Nov. 54'. Marked 'Duration 15 mins', but abandoned? Oblong folio. Another brief sketch (fol. 42) marked 'Clarinet concerto'.
  7. (fols. 43-52v) Sycamore tree. Cantata? for voice(s) and orchestra. Pencil draft score (pp. 1-20 only).
  8. (fols. 53-54v) My own little girl. Short overture? For orchestra. Pencil draft score (2 p.), with 'The seasons coda' (p. '23+').
  9. (fols. 55-58v) The seasons. For orchestra. Pencil draft score (pp. 21-28 only).
  10. (fols. 59-62) Notes for the Overture: Celebration. Blue ballpoint sketches.
  11. (fols. 63-66v) 'In the borrowed bedrooms, When no one else is there'. For narrator and piano? Blue ballpoint draft (fols. 63-64v), with an earlier ink and blue ballpoint sketch/draft (fols. 65-66v).
  12. (fols. 67-68) Hymn tune in D major, untitled, In 3-part keyboard format, with added notes inked or pencilled in (fol. 67); with red ballpoint sketch (fol. 68).

MS. Mus. b. 375: Miscellaneous unidentified drafts, sketches and other material, 179 leaves, n.d.

Among the leaves the following subjects, titles or first lines appear: The emperor and the nightingale; Cocktail cabinet; 'Op'ra makers, we, gay for the world to see'; 'Child of the sun, unhappy slave'; 'Imperial ode', first lines: 'Today we're waiting all alert, To open Westonbirt' and 'Come and see our home for two'; 'Threnos'; 'When that Moses was a little tiny child'; 'So we'll go no more a'roving' (2 settings); 'The sun set'; 'The water is wide'; 'Full Mil. Hons.' (for a film?); 'Out of the wood of thought', 'Rise up' and 'The border of sleep' (for SATB); 'Dancing bear','Jolly hunter', 'The fox' (for voice and piano); 'The spacious firmament on high' (hymn tune); 'In joy it makes our mirth abound'; 'Swan song' (for string quartet?); 'Sabrina's song'('By the rushy fringed bank' (words from Milton's Comus)); Magnificat; 'Solique ('Lap me in soft Lydian airs') (for tenor and violin); 'Soldier, soldier, why will you roam?'; 'Hungarian fantasia', for piano; no. 7 'The day of days' ('Each ere earth falleth down the dusk'), and no. 4 'Song of war' (A new flag floats upon the breeze', for SATB; 'Sigh no more ladies' (not related to Much ado about nothing incidental music); 'Cats and dogs and birds and bees'; 'Think and you will find it true' 'Rainbow waltz'; 'Te Deum laudamus'; 'Sing aloud his praise rehearse' (words by Richard Crashaw).

Dates

  • Creation: Sep-Nov 1954, n.d.

Extent

2 shelfmarks

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MSS. Mus. b. 374-375

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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