HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. xvii. ‘Dualities’, ballet in one act, op.39; 1963. Partly ink. ff. i+33. Largest size 315 x 250mm. 1. ff. 2-4. Notes. 2. f. 5. Series chart. 3. ff. 6-33. Short score.
HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. xv. Ballet music; 1956, 1958. ff. 71. Overall size 305 x 260mm. 1. ff. 1-37. ‘Noctambules’, ballet, op.30; 1956. Short score; ink note detailing the selection of music for a ‘suite’. 2. ff. 38-71. ‘The Great Peacock’, ballet in one act [after Variations and Fi...
HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. xviii. ‘The Photo of the Colonel’, opera in one act after Ionesco, op.41; 1964. See also Add. 71808. Vocal score published with English, German and French text, Schott & Co., [1968]. ff. i+100. Largest size 385 x 280. 1. ff. 1-48. Typewritten libretto. 2. ...
HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. xxiv. Works without opus number; 1934, n.d. ff. 117. Largest size 345 x 260mm. 1. ff. 1-58. ‘The Life of the Insects’, Act III scene 2; n.d. Ink and pencil vocal scores, with row chart. 2. ff. 59-65. Polka and Cotillian from ‘Starina’; 1934. Short score. Appar...
HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. xvi. ‘The Diary of a Madman’, opera in one act after Gogol’, op.35; 1958, 1959. ff. 75. Largest size 305 x 250mm. 1. ff. 1-43. Vocal score with a series chart; 1958. 2. ff. 44-75. Copy of printed vocal score (Schott & Co., 1959) marked ‘sound radio version...
HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vols xix-xxiii. ‘Hamlet’, opera in three acts after Shakespeare, op.48; 1965-8. Revised full score issued [Faber Music, 1968]. Vocal score published Faber Music, 1971. Five volumes.
Scope & Content:
William Shakespeare, dramatist and poet: Humphrey Searle's opera 'Hamlet' after William Shakespeare: 1965-1968: Engl. and Germ.
Vols. xxi-xxiii. Full score. Dyeline of a copyist’s score, with numerous autogr. corrections and additions. English and German text. The annotations differ in some respects to the revised full score ([Faber, 1968], Music Collections I.340.dd.). Three volumes.