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Add MS 71825

Record Id:

040-001966164

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001966038

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000970.0x0001d5

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Add MS 71825

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HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. cv. Searle’s programme notes, etc., mostly for his own compositions; n.d. [circa 1950-1974] . Typewritten except where noted.

Overall size 335 x 220mm.

1. f. 1. ‘Cat Variations on a theme of Prokofiev…(first performance)’; n.d.

2. ff. 2-3. ‘Piano Concerto no.2’; [after 1955].

3. ff. 4-7. ‘The Diary of a madman’; n.d. Two scripts, one in ink, the other typewritten. See also Add. 71756, ff. 1-15.

4. f. 8. ‘Fantasia for cello and piano’; [after 1972].

5. ff. 9-10. ‘Fantasia on British Airs’; [after 1977]. Two different scripts, one subtitled ‘world premiere’ the second ‘first performance’.

6. f. 11. ‘Five for Guitar’; [after 1975].

7 ff. 12-18. ‘On setting "Les Fleurs du Mal"’; [after 1972]. Annotated typescript.

8. f. 19. ‘A small boy’s imagination "The Foundling"’; [1965?]. Apparently the text for an announcement of a broadcast on the BBC’s Third Programme.

9. f. 20. ‘Gold Coast Customs’; n.d. [1949?]. See also 71745.

10. ff. 21-2. ‘Labyrinth’; n.d. [after September 1971]. Two different typescripts.

11. ff. 23-32. Noctambules; 1956. Pencil notes in Searle’s hand; ink notes in an unidentified hand and a typescript.

12. f. 33. ‘Oxus’; n.d.

13. ff. 34-48. ‘The Photo of the Colonel; n.d. [after 1964?]. Four different scripts, the first annotated, the last in French.

14. f. 49. ‘Poem for 22 strings’ ; n.d. [after 1950].

15. f. 50. ‘Quartet for violin, viola, clarinet and bassoon’; n.d. [after 1969].

16. f. 51. ‘Rhyme Rude to My Pride’; n.d. [after 1974].

17. ff. 52-7. ‘… Sinfonietta for nine instruments’; 1973. Written for the first performance.

18. ff. 58-9. ‘Three Songs of Jocelyn Brooke…’; n.d.

19. ff. 60-61. ‘Song of the Birds’; n.d. [after 1964].

20. f. 62. [Symphony, op.23]; n.d. [after 1963].

21. ff. 63-6. ‘Symphony no.2’; n.d. [after 1958]. Two different texts.

22. f. 67. ‘Symphony no.4’; n.d. [after 1962].

23. ff. 68-78. ‘Introduction to the 5^th Symphony’; n.d [after 1964]. Annotated in pencil and with additional ink musical examples.

24. ff. 79-82. ‘Symphony no.5’; n.d. [after 1964]. A different text.

25. f. 83. ‘A Winchester Overture’; n.d. [1981].

26. f. 84. ‘Zodiac Variations’; n.d. [after 1970].

27. f. 85. p. 6 of a text on an unidentified serial composition; n.d.

28. ff. 86-88. ‘Alfred Brendel - Piano Recital’; n.d. An incomplete note on Haydn’s Sonata in C, Hob. XVI/50.

includes:

f. 1 (programme note) Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev, composer: Humphrey Searle's 'Cat Variations' based on a theme from Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf: 1971.
f. 20 Edith Louisa Sitwell, DBE; poet: Humphrey Searle's 'Gold Coast Customs' to a text by: 1927, 1947-1949.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

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Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001966038
036-001966161
037-001966162
040-001966164

Is part of:

Add MS 71721-71862 : HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Music manuscripts and papers by and relating to Humphrey Searle, CBE (1915-1982), composer,…
Add MS 71824-71843 : PAPERS.
Add MS 71824-71825 : N. Searle’s documentation of his own works.

Add MS 71825 : HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. cv. Searle’s programme notes, etc., mostly for his own compositions; n.d. [circa 1950-1974]…

Hierarchy:

032-001966038[0002]/036-001966161[0001]/037-001966162[0002]/040-001966164

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View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 71721-71862

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1945

End Date:

1981

Date Range:

1945-1981

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Material Type:

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Names:

Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeevich, composer, 1891-1953,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121389711,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/71579098
Sitwell, Edith Louisa, poet and biographer, 1887-1964