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MS Mus. 1730/3

Record Id:
040-001606016
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-001606011
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001403.0x000257
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1730/3
Title:
Sydney Vale: vocal works
Scope & Content:
  • 'Orientale', for medium voice and piano, words by Albert Fanelly; 1962. Words in French.Vocal score in pencil.
  • 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind', for medium voice and piano, words by William Shakespeare; 1963. Transcription for piano by the composer of original version for small orchestra. Vocal score in pencil.
  • 'The sun was shining on the sea', for mixed chorus, strings and percussion, words by Lewis Carroll; 1964. Full score.
  • 'Quatre poèmes de Rimbaud', for high voice and piano, words Arthur Rimbaud; 1965. Arranged excerpts from the opera 'Une saison en enfer'. Vocal scores, two on transparencies, one photocopy. 'Larme'; - 'Qu'est ce pour nous mon coeur...'; - 'La rivière de cassis'; - 'Bonne pensée du matin'. Together with the texts written out separately in French and the composer's English translation. Submitted to Modus Music as 'Four Rimbaud Arias', with a version for tenor and orchestra.
  • 'Carol', first words 'When the herds were watching', for double junior choir, piano and percussion, words by William Canton; 1967. Full score, with one page of a 'simpler version'. Transparencies. Published by Modus Music [1967], and by Oxford University Press [1969].
  • 'Terly Terlow, an anonymous medieval carol', for solo male voice and piano; 1968. Vocal score, transparency.
  • 'Le prince et son désir', for tenor solo, choir and orchestra, words by Arthur Rimbaud; 1969-1978. In French. Full score in pencil, 42 bars only, 1972; - Sketches in pencil, 'Le Prince original sketch', 1969-1971; - Sketches in pencil, 'New sketch', 1978.
  • 'Hannibal', for double school choir, percussion and piano, words by Eleanor Farjeon; 1970. Full score in pencil. With a version for unison school choir and piano; 1971. Photocopy.
  • 'Dieppe', for solo speaker and three-part speaking chorus, words by Samuel Beckett; 1971. Score, one photocopy and one printed version.
  • 'Easter wings', for unaccompanied mixed choir, words by George Herbert; 1971. Vocal score on transparencies, with a scheme or outline of the piece.
  • 'Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird', for speaking chorus, alto flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, words by Wallace Stevens; 1972. Full score with pencil annotations.
  • 'The Wallace Stevens songbook', for voice and piano, words by Wallace Stevens; 1973-1984. Sketch in pencil (of the first piece) and vocal scores on transparencies. 'Of mere being'; - 'The reader'; - 'Adult epigram'.
  • 'Quadrillage', for unaccompanied mixed choir, words by Albert-Philippe Fog; 1977. Words in French. Full score, including rehearsal piano part. Transparency.
  • 'The hounds of spring', for soprano, tenor and piano, words by Algernon Swinburne; 1978. Vocal score, transparency.
  • 'A green fable', for mixed choir, words by George Mackay Brown; 1983. Vocal score, transparency. Published by Modus Music in [1994?].
  • Arrangement. Olivia Bennett: 'The end of the affair', for voice and piano, arranged by Sydney Vale; 1969. Photocopied vocal score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Project / Collection:
Music Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-001606011
040-001606016
Is part of:
MS Mus. 1730 : Sydney Vale: music manuscripts

 

MS Mus. 1730/3 : Sydney Vale: vocal works
Hierarchy:
032-001606011[0003]/040-001606016
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1730
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
159 folios
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
French
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1962
End Date:
1983
Date Range:
1962-1983
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:
Largest size 370 x 280mm
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Beckett, Samuel, author, 1906-1989
Brown, George Mackay, writer, 1921-1996,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120314726,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100270317
Canton, William, poet and journalist, 1845-1926
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, alias 'Lewis Carroll', author and mathematician, 1832-1898
Farjeon, Eleanor, author, 1881-1965
Fog, Albert Philippe, writer, fl 1975
Herbert, George, poet; clergyman, 1593-1633
Rimbaud, Jean Nicolas Arthur, poet, 1854-1891
Shakespeare, William, playwright and poet, 1564-1616,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121032683,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/96994048
Stevens, Wallace, poet, 1879-1955
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, poet, 1837-1909