MS Mus. 411

MS Mus. 411. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. lxxxvi. Full score. Autograph of the various composers. With conductor’s annotations in red crayon, and with typewritten excerpts from the script pasted onto the score. The full score of no.4, ‘Clown’s Congé’ by Rutland Boughton (a setting of Shakespeare’s ‘The Wind and the Rain’), which is lacking from this manuscript, is Add. 51006, ff. 26-36. Also missing are nos. 10 and 14, the latter an untitled number by Aubrey Bowman of which the piano score is Add. 69024, ff. 32-33.

ff. 91. Overall size 370 x 370mm.

1. ff. 1-9. Christian Darnton: ‘Nos 1 and 1a: Fanfare I & II’. In ink. Cf. Add. 69024, ff. 2-5.

2. ff. 10-13. Inglis Gundry: no.2: ‘Part of a Pavane (in Elizabethan Style)’. In ink. Cf. Add. 69024, f. 6.

3. ff. 14-22. ‘No.3: Lilliburlero’, arranged by Phil Cardew. In pencil. Cf. Add. 69024, ff. 7-8.

4. ff. 23-5. ‘No.5: Go Down Moses’, apparently arranged by Gwendoline Mullings. In ink. Cf. Add. 69024, ff. 9-10.

5. ff. 26-41. Malcolm Arnold: ‘Nos 6, 6a, 7: Factory Scene’. In ink. No.7 is an arrangement of the hymn tune ‘Ebenezer’ (‘Ton-y-Botel’). Cf. Add. 69024, ff. 11-15, where the hymn tune is ‘Cwm Rhondda’.

6. ff. 42-7. ‘No.8: March of the Workers’, an arrangement of the tune ‘John Brown’s Body’ by Aubrey Bowman (for the version with William Morris’s words, ‘What is this, the sound and rumour?’). In ink. Cf. Add. 69024, ff. 16-17.

7. ff. 48-57. Arnold: ‘No.9: Factory Scene—Newsboys’. In ink. Cf. Add. 69024, ff. 18-19.

8. ff. 58-64. Bernard Stevens: ‘Nos 11 and 13’. In ink. Cf. Add. 69024, ff. 20-22 (pencil full score), f. 27 (piano score).

9. ff. 65-73. ‘No. 12: Czarist Anthem and Partisan Song’ (the latter by — Aturov), arranged by Bernard Stevens. In ink. Cf. Add. 69024, ff. 23-26 (pencil full score), ff. 28-31 (piano score).

10. ff. 74-91. Bush: ‘No.15: Finale’, concluding with settings of ‘The People’s Flag’ and ‘The International’. In ink. Add. 69024, ff. 38-42 is an autograph piano score of the same music; MS Mus. 399, ff. 34-7 is another arrangement of ‘The People’s Flag’ by Bush for chorus and orchestra, and MS Mus. 416, ff. 28-35 of ‘The International’. Bush’s arrangement of ‘The International’, included in this pageant, is published in a version for mixed chorus, Workers’ Music Association, [c. 1935]; ‘The International’ and ‘The Red Flag’ are also published in The Left Song Book, Victor Gollancz, 1938, and ‘The International’ in an arrangement of Bush’s arrangement by Thomas Conway Brown for military band, Hawkes & Son, 1942.

includes:

• ff. 42-7 William Morris, poet and artist: Setting by A. Bowman of the 'March of the Workers' , to words by William Morris: [1948].
• ff. 65-73 Aturov, composer: 'Partisan Song', arranged by B. Stevens: [1948].