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MS Mus. 1404
- Record Id:
- 040-000090497
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000090439
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000502.0x0000ff
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1404
- Title:
- Peter Maxwell Davies: Incidental music and teaching materials
- Scope & Content:
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- 1. ff. 1-47. 'Life!' (J34), revue; 1951-1953. Words by Tony Warren. Written for Shelagh Elliott-Clarke School of Dance and Drama, Liverpool. Scores and sketches in pencil and ink, and drafts of the text. 'You've gotta have life'; - 'Problem children'; - 'I've failed my intermediate; I'm the Merseyside Ophelia'; - 'Throw away your Shakespeare'; - 'Plaits are taboo'; - 'I'm a Botticelli lady with a lily'; - 'Flag Song'; - 'I'm only a dirty Degas postcard'; - 'Where are Miss Elliott Clarkesex [sic] students'; - 'We're ready to do the Coronation Visitors'; - 'This is the interval'; - 'I got too fat'; - 'Coronation Number - Faith in Elizabeth'; - 'Where are Miss Elliott Clarke's ex students'; - 'Though I'm only 18'; - 'I want an X certificate'; - 'I'm the only male in an all girls school'; - 'The show is over now'.
- 2. ff. 48-67v. 'A Womb with a View' (J49), for violin, piano, trombone and percussion; [1956]. Music for an entertainment by Dr. C. E. B. 'Tex' Rickards. Typescript libretto and draft score. Performed in the Large Anatomy Theatre of Manchester University, 9 January 1957.
- 3. ff. 68-74v. Sonata for violin and piano (J43); 1957. Written as incidental music for 'The Hour of Contempt', a play by Dr. C. E. B. 'Tex' Rickards. Score and part. With a caption, f. 48r, 'Unnamed Society Manchester'.
- 4. ff. 75-122. Materials used for lectures at the University of Adelaide; 1966. The composer spent a year in Adelaide as a visiting professor. ff. 75-104. Analysis of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire; - ff. 105-109. Analysis of Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 and Sonata for piano op. 110; - ff. 110-118. Analysis of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring; - f. 119. Fragment entitled 'Purcell', for percussion; - ff. 120-122. Unidentified sketches or musical examples.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000090439
036-000090440
040-000090497 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1400-1521 : Peter Maxwell Davies Manuscripts, Part II
MS Mus. 1400-1409 : Peter Maxwell Davies Manuscripts, Part II: Peter Maxwell Davies: Earlier manuscripts
MS Mus. 1404 : Peter Maxwell Davies: Incidental music and teaching materials - Hierarchy:
- 032-000090439[0001]/036-000090440[0005]/040-000090497
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1400-1521
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- ff. 122.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1953
- End Date:
- 1966
- Date Range:
- 1953-1966
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Largest size 457 x 285mm.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Davies, Peter Maxwell, Knight, composer, 1934-2016,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120273020,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/64271053
Rickards, C E B, gynaecologist, playwright, fl 1950-1970
Warren, Tony, né Anthony McVay Simpson, scriptwriter, 1936-2016 - Subjects:
- Davies, Peter Maxwell, 1934-2016. Life
Davies, Peter Maxwell, 1934-2016. Sonatas, violin, piano
Davies, Peter Maxwell, 1934-2016. Womb with a view