TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vols. liv-lxv. Unnumbered notebooks, containing sketches and notes for musical compositions and drafts of libretti and other writings; 1946-1991. Twelve volumes.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vols. xxxiv-liii. Numbered notebooks, containing sketches and notes for musical compositions and drafts of libretti, texts and articles; 1939-1969, n.d. The articles were mostly published in Moving into Aquarius (1959, rev. 1974), Music of the Angels (1980) and Tippett on Music (Oxford, 1995). Twenty volumes.
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). Vols. iii, iv. 'The Village Opera', performing arrangement of the ballad opera in three acts by Charles Johnson (1729); 1927-1928. Ink full score with ink and pencil annotations and corrections. Imperfect, lacking Act 3. Two volumes. 356 x 261mm.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vols. xxiv, xxv. Alternative finale for 'Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles', later discarded in favour of a revised version of the original finale; 1948. See also Add. 61767. Two volumes. 365 x 270mm.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vols. xiv, xv. 'A Song of Liberty', for chorus and orchestra (words, William Blake, from 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'); 1937. Two volumes.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vols. xvi, xvii. Sonata no. 1 for piano, originally called 'Fantasy Sonata'; 1938, 1954. Partly copy and printed. First published 1942; revised version published 1954. Two volumes.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vols. xix, xx. 'Seven at one Stroke', play for children (words by Christopher Fry), music arranged by Tippett from traditional sources; 1939. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:
Christopher Fry, dramatist: Musical works by Sir M. K. Tippett , to words by Christopher Fry: 1930-1939.
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV). Vols. xi-xiii. 'Robin Hood', a folk song opera in two acts by David Michael Pennyless (i.e. with music by Tippett and words by David Ayerst, Michael Tippett and Ruth Pennyman); 1934. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:
David George Ogilvy Ayerst, alias (with Mrs R Pennyman and Sir M K Tippett) 'David Michael Pennyless': Ruth Pennyman, alias (with D G O Ayerst and Sir M K Tippett) 'David Michael Pennyless': Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, OM; CH; alias (with D G O Ayerst and Mrs R Pennyman) 'David Michael Pennyless':...