Arrangement generally follows the pattern of Add MS. 71721-71862. Within broad categories of orchestra, instrumental and vocal works, the scores are arranged by opus no. or date.
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Untitled works, fragments, sketches and music by other composers
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1. ff. 1-8. Incidental music for unidentified theatrical work; between 1940 and 1970. For violin, percussion and piano. Draft material and parts in pencil and in ink. Characters mentioned include Silas, Ruth, Barnfield, Fred, Ridgwell and Ted. Score, violin part, percussion part. 2. ff. 9-10. Unt...
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Orchestral works
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1. ff. 1-7r. "Night Music", op. 2, 1943. For chamber orchestra. Pencil score (with some notation in ink). Deposit 97/07. 2. ff. 7v-15. Piano concerto no. 1, op. 5, 1944. Beginning of the first movement. The rest of this work's first movement, along with its second and third movements, can be foun...
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Scripts, libretti etc. The Duchess of Malfi
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"The Duchess of Malfi". Printed book of the play (London: Sylvan Press, 1945), annotated by Humphrey Searle. The short score of Searle's incidental music for the play is Add MS 71759, ff. 60-71.
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Vocal works: 'Fantasia on British airs' for five military bands, tenor and chorus,instrumental parts: dyeline copies, part 1
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Op. 68, for 5 military bands, tenor and chorus, 1976. Dyeline copies from original transparencies under 1/3/1, some multiple, for the instruments listed below. Annotated in pencil. In an episode described in chapter 18 of 'Quadrille with a Raven', Searle’s autobiography (see MS Mus. 1747/2/6), t...