BAX MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. I (ff. 6). Short score, with indications of orchestration; 1909. Imperfect, ending with rough sketches and lacking a complete version of the last eleven bars of the full score.
THE BAX MANUSCRIPTS Musical compositions of Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, K.C.V.O.; 1909-1925. Autograph fair copies, except for 50180, ff. 32-36b. Supplement Add. MSS. 53735, 54395, 54724-54781, 57523. See B.M.Q., xxiii, 1961, pp. 43-5; G. Parlett, Arnold Bax, a catalogue of his music, 1972; C. Scott-Sutherland, Arnold Bax, 1973; L. Foreman, 'A Catalogue of Autograph Manuscript Sources of Music by Sir Arnold Bax', R. M. A. Research Chronicle, no. 12, 1974, pp. 91-105. Presented by Miss Harr...
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Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, alias 'Sheila McCarthy'; alias 'Dermot O'Byrne'; KCVO; composer: Musical compositions: 1909-1925: Autogr.
BAX MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. II (ff. ii+37). Full score; 'Composed: London Oct 1909. Orchestrated: Renvyle Connemara Feb:- March 1911' (f. 37). Dedicated to Henry Balfour Gardiner and first performed at the Queen's Hall, London, in the second of his concerts of British music, 27 Mar. 1912. See Scott-Su...
BAX MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. III (ff. iv+48). 'Four Orchestral Pieces' (ff. iii). Full score; '1912-1913' (f. iii). (1) 'Pensive Twilight' (f. 1). ff. 1-11b:- (2) 'Dance in the Sun' (f. 12). ff. 12-24;- (3) No title. See Parlett, p. 27. ff. 24b-29b;- (4) 'The Dance of Wild Irravel' (f. 30). ff. 30-...
BAX MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. IV (ff. i+4). Piano score, with indications of orchestration; 'May 13th 1914' (f. 4b). 'After a prose poem by Herbert Farjeon' (f. 1), and dedicated to him.
BAX MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. V (ff. 1+23). Full score; n.d. A sketch for the six bars before no. 7 in the published score is at f. 23. Dedicated to Eugene Goossens. Published 1925.
BAX MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. VII (ff. i+20). 'To the Name above Every Name' (f. 1), a setting for soprano, chorus and orchestra, of words by Richard Crashaw; '16 March 1921' (f. 19b). Vocal score, with a violin part on a separate stave. Pencilled indications of orchestration in the piano part. F. 20 is...