TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vol. xxvii. 'Words for Music Perhaps', for speaking voices and chamber ensemble (words by W.B. Yeats); 1960. Commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, 8 June 1960. Two volumes.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vol. xxx. 'Prelude, Recitative and Air', arranged from third interlude in Act III of 'King Priam', for flute, oboe and harpsichord or piano; 1963. Ink score with directions to copyist for adaptation from published vocal score (1962), and with pencil annotations. ff...
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vol. xxxi. Music for 'The Tempest' (by William Shakespeare), for voices and instruments; 1962. With a signed letter from Tippett to Eric [Walter White?] dated 15 Mar. 1968 (ff. 1-2v). First performed at the Old Vic, London, 29 May 1962. For Ariel's three songs (ff. ...
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vol. xxxii. 'Braint', no. 6 of 'Severn Bridge: Variations on a Welsh Folk Song'; 1966. Pencil score. The variations were commissioned by the BBC West Region and first performed at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, 11 Jan. 1967. The other five variations were composed by M...
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vol. xxxiii. 'The Rose Lake, a song without words for orchestra'; 1991-1993. Draft partly in pencil and partly in ink, with annotations in black and red ink, many of them directions to the copyist Michael Tillett. Dated 22 Apr. 1993 (f. 110). Apparently imperfect, l...