MS Mus. 157 C

C. ‘Sir John in Love’, opera (libretto by the composer, after Shakespeare); circa 1929-33. Discarded pages from the publisher’s hire library copies of the full score, in ink, supplementing those in Add. 69454-69456. Partly autograph, partly copies with autograph annotations, in ink. For the draft full score, see Add. 50410 A-D and 50409 B. Vocal score published Oxford University Press, 1930; vocal score of additional Prologue, Episode and Interlude, 1936. See Kennedy, pp. 119-24. Presented by Mrs Ursula Vaughan Williams through the offices of Oxford University Press, 12 Nov. 1997.

ff. 9-37. Largest size 370 x 260mm.

1. ff. 9-20. Pages from the Interlude, to be played between scenes i and ii of Act II or between Acts I and II; [1933]. Copy, with conductor’s markings added. Copied from Add. 50409 B, ff. 29-32, 55v-7, and corresponding to pp. 26-30, 52-6 of the published vocal score of the Prologue, Episode and Interlude (figures A-D, V-W).

2. ff. 21-24. The first and last leaves of Act III, scene i; [1929]. Copy, with autograph markings including some additional cuts not noted in the draft full score but incorporated into the published vocal score. The pages correspond to Add. 50410 C, ff. 2, 18v-19 and pp. 158, 179 of the published vocal score.

3. ff. 25-37. Part of the interlude between scenes i and ii of Act III; [?1929]. Autograph, with conductor’s marks. The music is not present in the draft full score (Add. 50410 C, f. 20v), but corresponds to pp. 182-7 of the published vocal score. ff. 35v-7 are only very partially scored.

William Shakespeare, dramatist and poet: Discarded pages from the score of 'Sir John in Love' by R. Vaughan Williams, to words by the composer after William Shakespeare: 1929-33.