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MS Mus. 356
- Record Id:
- 040-001946506
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001946468
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000248.0x0000ee
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 356
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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MS Mus. 356. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. xxxi. Chamber music; [1965-70].
ff. 122. 356 x 263mm.
1. ff. 1-8. Two dances for cimbalom, op.64; [1965]. In ink. Dedicated to and edited by John H. Leach. Published as Két Tánc Cimbalomra, Budapest: Zeneműkiado Vállalat, 1966.
2. ff. 9-50. Suite for two pianos, op.65; [1967]. In ink. With a list of the sources of the folk melodies employed in the Suite (f. 10) and two lists of page-references (ff. 11-12).
i. ff. 13-17. ‘Prologue’. With a photocopy of another version of the final page (f. 17).
ii. ff. 18-24. ‘Volga Harvest’.
iii. ff. 25-9. ‘Kinloch Iorram’.
iv. ff. 30-40. ‘Samarkand’ (entitled ‘Samarkand Dugokh’ on ff. 9 and 10).
v. ff. 41-50. ‘Pennine Round’.
3. ff. 51-89. ‘Serenade’, for string quartet, op.70; [1969]. Draft score, in pencil. Commissioned by the BBC. Dedicated to Ernst H. Meyer (though not in this score).
i. ff. 52-64. ‘Romance’.
ii. ff. 65-72. ‘Musette’.
iii. ff. 73-81. ‘Air’ (later entitled ‘Air and Variation’).
iv. ff. 82-7. March (untitled in this score).
v. ff. 88-9. ‘Postlude’.
4. ff. 90-122. Sonata in A flat, ‘He Epikoureia Hedone’, for piano solo, op.71; [1970]. In ink. ‘Dedicated in friendship and high esteem to Ronald Stevenson’ (f. 97). With a typewritten list of corrections to the score (f. 95) and sketches of the main subject of the sonata (ff. 91-4), which is derived from the ancient Greek ‘First Delphic Hymn to Apollo’, as transcribed by Isobel Henderson in The New Oxford History of Music, I (1957), pp. 367-8.
includes:
- ff. 1-8 John H. Leach, cimbalom player: Two dances for cimbalom, op.64, by A. D. Bush , dedicated to and edited by John H. Leach: [1965].
- ff. 51-89 Professor Ernst Hermann Meyer, alias 'Peter Baker'; composer and musicologist: Serenade for string quartet, op.70, by A. D. Bush , dedicated to Prof. Ernst Hermann Meyer: [1969].
- ff. 90-122 Ronald Stevenson, composer and pianist: Piano music by A. D. Bush , dedicated to Ronald Stevenson: [1970-82].
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001946468
036-001946499
040-001946506 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 326-673 : Alan Bush Collection
MS Mus. 350-366 : B. Chamber and instrumental music.
MS Mus. 356 : MS Mus. 356. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. xxxi. Chamber music; [1965-70]. ff. 122. 356 x 263mm. 1. ff. 1-8. Two dances for… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001946468[0002]/036-001946499[0007]/040-001946506
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 326-673
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1965
- End Date:
- 1970
- Date Range:
- 1965-1970
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Leach, John H, cimbalom player
Meyer, Ernst Hermann, composer and musicologist, alias Peter Baker, 1905-1988
Stevenson, Ronald, composer and pianist, 1928-2015