VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LXV (ff. i+47). Full score. Autograph. Imperfect, lacking 3 folios before f. 37 at the opening of movement 7. See 50426, ff. 61b-66. Large folio.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LXVI (ff. 84). Full score of the arrangement. Xerox copies of photostats of a copy in the possession of Oxford University Press.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Music for the film The People's Land (1943), on the work of the National Trust, produced by Donald Taylor
Scope & Content:
Possibly begun as early as 1941. Autograph. Based on traditional tunes. Film first shown privately, 17 Mar. 1943. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 184-5; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 441-2.
Vol. LXVII A, ff. 9; also includes fragments of the music for the 'Flemish Farm' (f. 2b), 'Praise the Lord O my Soul' (f. 7b), and 'The First Nowell' (ff. 8b, 9b)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Music for the film The Flemish Farm (1943), directed by Jeffrey Dell
Scope & Content:
A Two Cities Film, first shown, 12 Aug. 1943. The suite arranged from the film music was first performed at the Royal Albert Hall, 31 July 1945. Kennedy, 1982, p. 185; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 442-4.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LXIX A (ff. 11). Film music. Sketch. Autograph. Also contains 'The souls of the righteous' (ff. 4-4b; Kennedy, 1982, pp. 189-90), 'This day Christ was born' by Byrd (ff. 8b-10; Gradualia, II, 1607), 'I saw three ships' (f. 11b). In notebook.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LXIX B (ff. 124). Film music. Full score. Mostly autograph. Partly (f. 82) copy. Includes several incomplete drafts of the last section.