Add MS 71405

Maxwell Davies Manuscripts. Vol. cliv. ‘L’homme armé’ (J75), for voice and chamber ensemble with electronic tape, and Songs (J87); [1968], n.d. Revised version of ‘Missa super L’homme armé’ (without tape) published Boosey & Hawkes, 1980.

ff. 29. Various sizes.

1. ff. 1-22. ‘L’homme armé’ (J75); [1968]. Sanctus from the second of the cycle of six anonymous masses on L’homme armé in Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VI E 40, transcribed from Feininger’s edition (Monumenta Polyphoniae Liturgicae Sancta Ecclesiae Romanae, ser.1/iii, 1957) with the addition of musica ficta (ff. 3-4); composition charts, sketches and draft pages, largely based on the Agnus Dei and in part probably for the revised version (ff. 5-11); diagrams and scores, with instructions, for electronically treated sections, partly in the hand of Ranulph Glanville (ff. 12-20); draft progamme note for this work and for ‘Revelation and Fall’ (ff. 21-22).

2. ff. 23-29. Songs, numbered II, IV, VI, VIII, for voice and instruments; n.d. Composition chart and sketches (f. 23); voice part with cues for piano and flute and percussion. Two copies of nos. II and IV, and of part of no. VI. Words for no. II, ‘O meine müde Füße’ from ‘Leonce und Lena’ (Büchner); see also Add. 71252.

Georg Büchner, German playwright: Words to Peter Maxwell Davies's 'O meine müden Füsse' from Büchner's Leonce und Lena, and to 'Blind Man's Buff', to words after nursery rhymes and Büchner's Leonce und Lena: n.d., 1972: Germ.

George Mackay Brown, writer: Compositions of Peter Maxwell Davies , to words by George Mackay Brown: [1972?]-1991.

includes:

• ff. 12-15 Dr Ranulph Glanville, teacher of architecture, design and cybernetics: Charts showing the electronic treatment of passages of 'L'homme armé' by Peter Maxwell Davies: [1968]: Autogr.