MS Mus. 1801/7/3

(1). ff. 1-71. ‘Autumn’s Legacy / Song Cycle’, Op. 58. The settings are: (I) 'The Mighty Thoughts of an Old World' (Beddoes); (II) 'All Night a Wind of Music' (Beddoes); (III) 'Lesbos' (Durrell); (IV) 'Tonight the Winds Begin to Rise' (Tennyson); (V) 'Hurrahing in Harvest' (Hopkins); (VI) 'Rich Days' (Davies); (VII) 'When We Were Idlers with the Loitering Rills' (Hartley Coleridge).

ff. 1-11. Undated [1962] autograph score (incomplete), in black ink. Outer bifolium enclosing pp. 1-2, 10-16, 16 (repeated number)-24. Lacking pp. 3-9 and (the final setting), 25-27. Scored on 18-stave paper, 365 x 270 mm. Signed on f. 2. ff. 12-26. Annotated complete dye-line copy of the above autograph score, pp. 1-16, 16-27, thus supplying the missing pages. Dated (within the copy) at the end of the score: 'March - May 1962'. Annotated in red and blue pencil. ff. 27-41. Further dyeline copy, copied from a partially different autograph score, pp. 1-29. Signed within copy on p. 1, and dated within copy at the end of the score: 'March - May 1962'. ff. 42-46. 'Lesbos'. Autograph score of Song III (here in the key of C), in black ink and pencil (1 bifolium, 18-stave paper, 355 x 260 mm). Pencil sketch on front page, and scored on 3 pages following (numbered 7-9). Signed on f. 42v, with dedication (in blue ink): 'To Wallace Southam'. Annotated, blue ink (f. 44v): 'So grateful to you, dear Wallace, for introducing me to this lovely poem. / Lennox.' Pasted-down correction, f. 43. Together with annotated dyeline copy (lacking the dedication and the concluding annotation), but including added pencil notes on the final page, and also dated in pencil: '1961'. ff. 47-50. Complete pencil sketches for: (I) 'The Mighty Thoughts of an Old World'; and (II) 'All Night a Wind of Music'. ff. 51-55. Two incomplete pencil sketches of (IV) 'Tonight the Winds Begin to Rise' (Tennyson). ff. 56-71. Published score (J. & W. Chester, 1963): J.W.C 4064. Pencil annotation pp. 10, 11, 25.

(2). ff. 72-119. ‘Songs of the Half-Light’, Op. 65. Settings, for high voice and guitar, of five poems by Walter de la Mare: 'Rachel'; 'Full Moon'; 'All That's Past'; 'The Moth'; 'The Fleeting'.

ff. 72-76. Complete pencil draft (undated), (24-stave paper, 370 x 270 mm). ff. 77-90. Undated autograph score, in blue ink (12-stave paper, 302 x 237 mm). Outer bifolium (with title) enclosing pp. 1-26. Signed on p. 1, and dedicated to Peter Pears. ff. 91-106. Dyeline copy of the above autograph score, lightly annotated in pencil. ff. 107-115. Dyeline copy of a different autograph score (16-stave paper, 355 x 265 mm), pp. 1-16. Dated within the copy at the end of the score: 'Dec. 1963 - Jan: 1964'. Unmarked. ff. 116-117. Two photocopied printed pages (pp. 14-15) from setting IV ('The Moth'), annotated in pencil. ff. 118-119. Two complete drafts: 'Full Moon' (blue ink and pencil, 1 f.) and 'The Fleeting' (pencil, 1 f.).