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040-001999166

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032-001999159

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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS (SECOND COLLECTION). Vol. VI. Early songs; [1892]-1896, n.d.

ff. 76. Largest size 379 x 278mm.

1. ff. 1-10v. 'Crossing the Bar' (words: Alfred, Lord Tennyson); [1892?]. (a) First setting for voice and piano. ff. 1-8; (b) Second setting for mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano. With pencil annotations. ff. 9-10v.

2. ff. 11-12. 'Wishes' (beg. 'Would that the love now given to me unworthy') for mezzo or baritone and piano (words: 'T', printed in the Cambridge Observer); Aug. 1893. Pencil annotations.

3. ff. 13-18v. 'To Daffodils' (beg. 'Fair daffodils, we weep to see)' for voice and piano (words: Robert Herrick); 1895. (a) Two scores. With pencil annotations. ff. 13-16; (b) Another setting. ff. 17-18v.

4. ff. 19-24. Settings from 'Rumpelstiltskin' for voice and piano; 1895, n.d. (a) 'Lollipops Song' (beg. 'My name is viscount lollipop'); [1895]. ff. 19-20; (b) 'Spinning Song' (beg. 'Turn my little wheel'); [1895]. ff. 21-22; (c) 'R.'s Song' (beg. 'Today I brew, tomorrow bake') for voice and piano; n.d. ff. 23-24.

5. ff. 25-28v. 'In memoriam' Canto LVII (beg.'Peace, come away'), setting for four voices, flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, cellos and basses (words: Alfred, Lord Tennyson); 1895. Two vocal scores.

6. ff. 29-30. 'Spring', 'Vocal Valse' for SATB and piano (words: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from 'The Window' or 'The Song of the Wrens', no. 5): [1896]. Score. With pencil annotations. Imperfect by the loss of the upper left hand corner of the bifolium.

7. ff. 31-32. 'Vine, vine and eglantine', 'Vocal valse' for SATB and piano (words: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from 'The Window', no. 2); March 1896. Score. With pencil annotations.

8. ff. 33-34v. 'Winter', 'Vocal valse' (beg. 'The frost is here') for SATB and piano (words: Alfred, Lord Tennyson); 16 March 1896. Score. With pencil annotations.

9. ff. 35-36. Rondel (beg. 'Kissing her hair') for contralto or baritone, and piano (words: A. C. Swinburne); [Oct. 1895-March 1896]. With pencil annotations and a pencil sketch on f. 36.

10. ff. 37-40v. 'Shakespeare Sonnet 71' (beg. 'No longer mourn for me') for six voices (SSATBB) unaccompanied; [Oct. 1895-March 1896]. (a) Draft, heavily annotated in pencil. ff. 37-38v; (b) Fair copy, with a pencil reduction of the vocal parts on to two staves, for rehearsal (?). ff. 39-40v.

11. ff. 41-42v. 'Echo's lament for Narcissus' (beg. 'Slow, slow fresh fount'), madrigal for double chorus (words: Ben Jonson); [Oct. 1895-March 1896]. Score.

12. ff. 43-44v. 'Come away Death' partsong for five voices (SSATB) (words: Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II.iv.); [1896-1902?]. Two scores. With pencil and crayon annotations. Published as no. 13 of Stainer and Bell's Choral Library, 1909.

13. ff. 45-46. 'Summum Bonum' (beg. 'All the breath and the bloom of the year') for tenor voice and piano (words: Robert Browning); n.d. With red and blue crayon markings.

14. ff. 47-52. 'To sleep the long bright day is done' setting for choir (SATB) and orchestra; n.d. Full score. With pencil and blue crayon markings.

15. f. 53. Wrapper annotated 'Rough copies of songs' referring to arts. 16-19.

16. ff. 54-57v. Song (beg. 'Her feet are set in a rugged way') for voice and piano; n.d. Ink fair copy of bars 1-13, completed in pencil and ink drafts.

17. ff. 58-60v. Song (beg. 'Ach neige, du Schmerzenreiche') for voice and piano (words: Goethe); n.d. Incomplete setting. See also Add. 57269, f. 6v above.

18. ff. 61-62v. 'Prospice' (beg. 'Fear Death') for voice and piano; n.d. Pencil draft. Also on f. 62v (vol. rev.) is an unidentified sketch in pencil.

19. ff. 63-76. Unidentified work for chorus and orchestra; n.d. Condensed score. Partly pencil. The first section does not have words for the chorus part; the second section begins 'Alleluja' (f. 69v).

includes:

ff. 1-10v, 25-34v Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson; Poet Laureate: Settings of his poems by R. Vaughan Williams: 1895, [1896], n.d.
ff. 13-18v Robert Herrick, poet: Settings of his poems 'Daffodils' by R. Vaughan Williams: 1895.
ff. 35-36 Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet: Settings of his works by R. Vaughan Williams: [1895-1896], 1899.
ff. 37-40v, 43-44v William Shakespeare, dramatist and poet: Settings of his works by R. Vaughan Williams: [1895-1896].
ff. 41-42v Benjamin Jonson, dramatist and poet: Setting of his work by R. Vaughan Williams: [1895-1896].
ff. 45-46 Robert Browning, poet: Setting of his 'Summum Bonum' by R. Vaughan Williams: n.d.
ff. 58-60v Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author: Settings of his poems by R. Vaughan Williams: n.d.

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Add MS 57265-57295 : VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS (SECOND COLLECTION). Music manuscripts of Ralph Vaughan Williams, O.M. (b.1872, d.1958), mostly…

Add MS 57270 : VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS (SECOND COLLECTION). Vol. VI. Early songs; [1892]-1896, n.d. ff. 76. Largest size 379 x 278mm. 1.…

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English

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Latin

Start Date:

1891

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1903

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1891-1903

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Names:

Browning, Robert, poet, 1812-1889
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, author, 1749-1832,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120999104,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24602065
Herrick, Robert, poet, 1591-1674,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121178949,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2486214
Jonson, Benjamin, dramatist and poet, 1572-1637,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121340010
Shakespeare, William, playwright and poet, 1564-1616,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121032683,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/96994048
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, poet, 1837-1909
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson, poet, 1809-1892