VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. LVIII-LX. 'The Pilgrim's Progress'; 1906-1952. Libretto adapted by the composer from John Bunyan. Vocal score published 1952. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 39-40, 182-3, 204-21; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 358-69. See also Add. MSS. 50481, ff. 17-61b; 50482 B, ff. 9-10; 63491; 69448 A, B; 70934; 71123.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LVIII A (ff. 36). Version performed at Reigate Priory, 1906. Autograph. (1) Full score. Imperfect. ff. 1-20b;- (2) Rough vocal score. Drafts. ff. 21-36.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LIX (ff. 74). Version broadcast by the B.B.C., 5 Sept. 1943. Full score. Autograph. Extracts from the printed edition, 1921, of the 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis' are pasted on ff. 13-14.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LX A (ff. 141). Final version, performed at Covent Garden, 26 Apr. 1951. Full score. Autograph. (1) Act I. ff. 1-58b;- (2) Intermezzo. ff. 59-79b;- (3) Act II. ff. 80-141. Large folio.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LX B (ff. 172). Final version, with the 1952 additions to Act III, scene 1, the Vanity Fair scene. Full score. Autograph and printed. See also 50482 B, ff. 9-10. (1) Act III. ff. 1-91;- (2) Act IV. ff. 93-169. Large folio.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LXI (ff. 106). 'The Bridal Day', masque adapted by Ursula Wood from Edmund Spenser's 'Epithalamion'; composed 1938-1939, revised 1952-1953. First performed on B.B.C. Television, 5 June 1953. Vocal score published 1956. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 174-5; Dickinson, 1963,...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. LXII, LXIII. '49th Parallel', music for the film produced and directed by Michael Powell; composed 1940-1941. Autograph. Film first shown, 8 Oct. 1941. The suite arranged from the film music was performed in Prague, 1946. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 178-80; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 436-7. See also Add. MSS. 50480, ff. 53-59; 57293, ff. 6-17.