Thea Musgrave: 'Echoes Through Time'. Sketches and composition drafts
Scope & Content:
Notes, sketches, and drafts ('final sketches'). These include substantial material relating to the music for tape, in the Prologue and tape-only Epilogues.
(1.) 'Space Play - a Concerto for Nine Instruments'; 1974. Published 1975 by Novello. Composition draft (ff. 1-65). Set of parts on transparencies. The autograph score for this work is held as part of the Koussevitsky Collection in the Library of Congress. (2.) 'Soliloquy III', for solo guitar an...
Thea Musgrave: 'Wood, Metal and Skin', for percussion and orchestra
Scope & Content:
(1.) 'Rough sketches'. (2.) Draft ('Final sketches'). (3.) Score; 2004. Bearing corrections suggested by the typesetter John Mortimer and also post-performance corrections.
(1.) Libretto; 1988. Typescript. (2.) Full score; May 1989. In ink. Foliated by the composer. Includes the Prologue (4 leaves, foliated A–D), but not the tape-only Epilogues.
(1.) 'Fanfare', for brass quintet; 1982. Sketches and composition drafts, including some photocopies. Dedication, on paper, typewritten, followed by a list of dedicatees. (2.) 'Pierrot', for piano, violin and clarinet; 1985. Sketches. Violin part, with p.6 at the front (in performance, this leaf ...
Thea Musgrave: 'Two's Company', a concerto for oboe and percussion and orchestra
Scope & Content:
Work dedicated to Nicholas Kraemer. Unpublished, but available on hire. (1.) Composition draft ('Final sketches'). (2.) Score; 2006. (3.) The final 12 leaves from the typeset score (typesetter probably John Mortimer), the last leaf (p.104) bearing autograph emendations in pencil and red ink. (4....
Thea Musgrave: 'Wild Winter II', for chorus and string quintet
Scope & Content:
Setting of texts by Wilfred Owen, Federico García Lorca, Stephen Crane, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Petrarch and Georg Trakl. 1.) Full score; 1996. Includes programme note. 2.) Typescript of texts in their respective original languages. 3.) 'Piano score'; 1996. 'Pfte for rehearsal only'.