MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. xliv-xlviii. ‘Caroline Mathilde’ (J234), ballet in two acts (choreography, Flemming Flindt); 1990. First performed Copenhagen, 14 March 1991. Five volumes.
MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. lv-lvii. ‘A Selkie Tale’, music theatre work for children (words by the composer); 1992, n.d. Published Chester Music, 1995. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, composer: Compositions by Peter Maxwell Davies for which the composer wrote the words: 1966-1992.
MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. lxvii, lxviii. ‘St Thomas Wake’ (J78), foxtrot for orchestra on a pavan by John Bull; 1966-1969. Published Boosey & Hawkes, 1972. For a further sketch, see Add. 71382. Two volumes.
MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. lxix, lxx. ‘Worldes Blis’ (J79), motet for orchestra, on a thirteenth-century English monody; 1966-1973, n.d. A facsimile of Add. 71321 published Boosey & Hawkes, 1975. Further sketches, together with annotated galley proofs of the programme notes for the first performance, are in private hands: for a microfilm, see MUS/MFM/2767. Two volumes.
MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. lxxiii-lxxv. ‘Stone Litany: runes from a house of the dead’ (J115), for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (words, Viking runic inscriptions); 1973-1975. A facsimile of Add. 71326 published Boosey & Hawkes, 1975. Three volumes.