MS Mus. 425

MS Mus. 425. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. c. Songs for voice and piano; [1929-74].

ff. i + 89. Largest size 382 x 282mm.

1. ff. 1-6. ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ (words, W. B. Yeats), song for voice and piano; [circa 1926].

2. ff. 7-9. ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’ (words, W. B. Yeats), song for voice and piano; March 1926. Score, in ink, with corrections in pencil.

3. ff. 10-25. ‘Seafarers’ Songs’, for baritone and piano, op.57; [1961]. Score, in ink. The words are taken from the Penguin Book of English Folk-Songs. Published as Four Seafarer’s Songs, Galliard, 1964.

i. ff. 10-13. ‘The Ship in Distress’.

ii. ff. 14-17. ‘Ratcliffe Highway’.

iii. ff. 18-21. ‘The Greenland Whale Fishery’.

iv. ff. 21v-25. ‘Jack the Jolly Tar’.

4. ff. 26-89. ‘The Freight of Harvest’ (words, Sylvia Townsend Warner), song cycle for tenor and piano, op.69; [1969]. Dedicated to Joseph Ward. Commissioned by the Dartington Summer School of Music. The cycle consists of four songs, ‘Country Thought from a Town’, ‘The Sailor’, ‘The Maiden’ and ‘The Load of Fern’, preceded by an introduction and with interludes after the first and third songs.

i. ff. 26-60. Draft score, in pencil.

ii. ff. 61-89. Score, in ink. With a typewritten list of timings (f. 64).

includes:

• ff. 1-9 William Butler Yeats, poet: Songs by A. D. Bush , to words by William Butler Yeats: [1926].
• ff. 8-17, 30-32 Sir Cecil Day-Lewis, poet: Songs by A. D. Bush , to words by C. Day-Lewis: 1958-74.
• ff. 26-89 Sylvia Townsend Warner, writer: Joseph Ward, singer: Dartington Summer School of Music: 'The Freight of Harvest', song cycle by A. D. Bush , to words by Sylvia Townsend Warner, dedicated to Joseph Ward and commissioned by the Dartington Summer School of Music: [1969].