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MS Mus. 1746/2
- Record Id:
- 036-003354235
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002024132
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100037436549.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1746/2
- Title:
- Lew Stone Collection: Music manuscript drafts and sketches
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph drafts and sketches for arrangements, original compositions or collaborations, for Lew Stone’s own reference.
1. f. 1. ‘Chambermaid Dance’, sketch for piano or guitar partDated 3rd June 1945 and September 2/7
2. f. 2. ‘How easy to see’, sketchOn reverse: bass part of ‘The night has a thousand eyes’ (see MS Mus. 1746/3/9).
3. ff. 3-4. Untitled sketch of piano score (‘Deep blue waters…’)
4. ff. 5-6. ‘Do I dream?’, sketch of piano score [1]‘Lyric and music adaptation by Michael Carr and [‘Lew Stone’ crossed out] Ray Scott from a theme by Liszt.’Grosvenor Music [& Sons?] Ltd. 4, Denmark Street, London, W.C.2., England
5. ff. 7-8. ‘Do I dream?’, manuscript piano score [2]Lyric and music adaptation by [‘Michael Carr and’ crossed out] Ray Scott
6. ff. 9-10. ‘Do I dream?’, manuscript piano score [3]Lyric and Musical Adaptation by Michael Carr and Lew Stone.
7. f. 11. ‘Joanna’, draft piano scoreWith sketches of lyrics
8. f. 12. Untitled incomplete manuscript draft score
9. ff. 13-16. ‘The end of the rainbow’ / ‘Mother Machree’, four sets of plain typed lyrics:Four identical versions, with the first verse beginning, ‘There’s a light in your eyes and a touch of the blarney…’
10. ff. 16-18. ‘The end of the rainbow’ / ‘Mother Machree’, draft score:‘Sweet Magpie Macree’ crossed out, replaced by ‘The end of the’‘By Harry Graham and Ray Scott [‘(Lew Stone)’ added]’
11. f. 19. ‘The end of the rainbow’ / ‘Mother Machree’, plain manuscript lyrics‘For I know in my heart you’re an angel from heaven…’Formerly interleaved with no. 12, ff. 20-26, below.
12. ff. 20-26. Booklet of manuscript draft vocal and piano scores:‘The Daughter of Mother Macree’ (title crossed out; first line ‘There’s a light in your eyes and a touch of the blarney…’). ‘Love Came My Way’‘When You’re Near’‘Reverie’‘Big Ben’‘Don’t Say a Word’(only three bars of music)
13. ff. 27-29. ‘Hide and Seek, Opening Act 2’, manuscript sketchManuscript sketch of ‘Hide and Seek’, on whose reverse a crossed-out piano score in a copyist’s hand for the same song. Extracted Originally among parts for ‘Hillside in Scotland’, MS Mus. 1746/3/38.
14. f. 29. Untitled manuscript draft of melody (‘Without love I’m as catty as a cat’…)Set to a ‘dummy lyric’.Extracted from parts for ‘Hillside in Scotland’
15. f. 30. Letter from Vivian Ellis to Lew Stone, 26 October 1937.Discussion of a ‘lyric’ of Lew Stone’s and the ‘“Big Apple” craze’Originally among parts for ‘Hillside in Scotland’, MS Mus. 1746/3/38.
16. f. 31. ‘Apple Pie’, set of plain lyricsTypewritten but annotated. ‘Words by Vivian Ellis’; ‘Music by Lew. Stone’.Originally among parts for ‘Hillside in Scotland’, MS Mus. 1746/3/38.
17. f. 32. ‘Salome’, draft manuscript score‘By Pauline Grant and Lew Stone, May, 1951’The reverse bears the piano score of Jack Penn’s arrangement of ‘Joyce’s Tune’ or ‘Whisp’ring Waters’.Left unbound in order to preserve the sense of the notation on both sides.Originally among parts for ‘Hillside in Scotland’, MS Mus. 1746/3/38.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002024132
036-003354235 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1746 : Lew Stone Collection
MS Mus. 1746/2 : Lew Stone Collection: Music manuscript drafts and sketches - Hierarchy:
- 032-002024132[0002]/036-003354235
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1746
- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
- 1 volume; 18 items; 32 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1925
- End Date:
- 1935
- Date Range:
- c 1930 - May 1951
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Arrangement:
- No particular arrangement exists for these manuscripts within this series, though some consecutive items are loosely associated with each other.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Carr, Michael, formerly Maurice Alfred Cohen, songwriter, 1905-1968
Ellis, Vivian John Herman, lyricist and musical comedy composer, 1903-1996
Graham, Harry Joscelyn Clive, Captain author
Grant, Pauline, choreographer and director, 1915-1986
Penn, Jack, pianist and arranger, 20th century
Scott, Raymond, composer, 20th century
Stone, Lewis, band-leader, arranger and pianist, 1898-1969,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000023267841 - Related Material:
- Some unannotated printed scores have been transferred to the British Library’s printed music collection.