Thea Musgrave: 'Night music', for chamber orchestra
Scope & Content:
(1.) Draft ('Final sketches'). (2.) Score, on transparencies; 1969. Bearing a publisher's number J. & W. C. 475. This score corresponds to the facsimile score published by Chester in 1972. (3.) Materials pertaining to a revised score, 1998, for Nicholas Kraemer, including a fax to Kraemer dat...
Thea Musgrave: 'Memento vitae - A concerto in homage to Beethoven'
Scope & Content:
(1.) Draft ('Final sketches'). (2.) Score, on transparencies; 1970. Some leaves lightly annotated. (3.) A list of changes needed in parts as a result of two cuts and some 'extra Bars for solo String 4tet'. (4.) 8 superseded leaves of the score, on transparencies, most of them annotated, in pencil...
Thea Musgrave: Horn Concerto, 'Variations on A Happy Birthday'
Scope & Content:
(1.) 'Horn Concerto'; 1970-1971. Sketches, in pencil. Score. Dyeline copy, heavily annotated in various plain and coloured pencils and inks. (2.) 'Variations on “A Happy Birthday”: a variation in one minute; to celebrate the 70th birthday of Sir William Walton'; 1972. Score, on transparencies.
Thea Musgrave: Viola concerto. Draft score and annotated solo viola part
Scope & Content:
(1.) Draft ('Final sketches'), in pencil with some limited instances of ink annotations. (2.) Solo viola part; 1973. Dyelline copy with annotations in pencil and red ink. Annotated by Peter Mark (Musgrave's husband, who was the soloist in the world première and gave many subsequent performances o...
Thea Musgrave: Viola concerto. Unannotated solo viola part and score
Scope & Content:
(1.) Solo viola part, unannotated, in ink on transparencies; 1973. (2.) Score; 1973. In ink on transparencies. Many leaves are marked with a small cross, in blue pencil, towards the bottom. Foliated by the composer. This score corresponds to the facsimile edition by Novello (1975).
(1.) 'Scottish Dance Suite' for concert band, 1974. Score, dyeline copy on bifoliate paper. Unlike many Musgrave scores, this is a transposing score. (2.) 'Orfeo II: an Improvisation on a theme', for solo flute and fifteen strings. Text for programme notes; annotated photocopies of the solo flute...