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.
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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.
MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. lxxx-lxxxii. ‘Black Pentecost’ (J158), for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra (words from Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown); 1979, n.d. Published Chester Music, 1983. Three volumes.
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George Mackay Brown, writer: Compositions of Peter Maxwell Davies , to words by George Mackay Brown: [1972?]-1991.
MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. lxxxviii, lxxxix. ‘Into the Labyrinth’ (J194), cantata for tenor and chamber orchestra (words from The Well by George Mackay Brown); 1983. For sketches and drafts of various sections, see MS Mus. 286, ff. 101-112. Published Chester Music, 1986. Two volumes.
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George Mackay Brown, writer: Compositions of Peter Maxwell Davies , to words by George Mackay Brown: [1972?]-1991.