Add MS 52899

JOHN IRELAND COLLECTION. Vol. XXIX. Songs.

ff. 62. Largest size 370 x 275mm.

1. ff. 2-3. 'If we must part', valediction for voice and piano; 25 July 1929. Score. Text by Ernest Dowson. Published in The Land of lost Content and other Songs, London: Galliard, 1975. 355 x 260mm.

2. ff. 5-27. 'Songs sacred and profane', song cycle; Christmas 1931. Score.

1. 'The Advent' (text: Alice Meynell); 2. 'Hymn for a Child' (text: Sylvia Townsend Warner); 3. 'My Fair' (text: Alice Meynell); 4. 'The Salley Gardens' (text: W. B. Yeats); 5. 'The Soldier's Return' (text: Sylvia Townsend Warner); 6. 'The Scapegoat' (text: Sylvia Townsend Warner). Scores. Imperfect, wanting no. 4. Published London: Schott & Co., 1934. There is a pencil sketch on the verso of f. 21. For no. 3 cf. 52900, ff. 9-11. Largest size 370 x 273mm.

3. ff. 29-49. 'Five sixteenth-century Poems', for voice and piano; 1938. 1. 'A Thanksgiving' ('Pleasure it is', text: William Cornysshe in XX Songes, London, 1530). In ink, with corrections in red; 2. 'All in a Garden Green' (text: Thomas Howell). In ink; 3. 'An Aside' (text: Harley MS. 7578). In pencil; 4. 'A Report Song' (text: Nicholas Breton). In pencil; 5. 'The Sweet Season' (text: Richard Edwardes). In pencil. Scores with engraver's markings and additional copies of the words typed on separate sheets. Dedicated to baritone George Parker. Published London: Hawkes & Co., 1938. Copyright was assigned to the John Ireland Trust in 1974, and the songs were reissued by the Braydeston Press in 1975. Largest size 359 x 263mm.

4. ff. 51-55. 'The Holy Boy' ('Preludes for Piano no. 3'), arranged by the composer for voice and piano; 1938. Text by Herbert S. Brown. Engraver's markings. Published London: Winthrop Rogers, 1938. 370 x 275mm.

5. ff. 57-61. 'The Holy Boy', arranged by the composer for string quartet or string orchestra; n.d. Published London: Hawkes & Son, 1941. An alternative incomplete arrangement of 18 bars written in ink appears on

f. 61. 363 x 270mm. (ff. 57-60) and 355 x 263mm. (f. 61).

includes:

• ff. 2-3 John Nicholson Ireland, composer and pianist: Music: Ernest Christopher Dowson, poet: 'If we must part', song by John Nicholson Ireland, words by Ernest Christopher Dowson: 1929: Engl.: Autogr. score.
• ff. 5-27 Alice Christina Gertrude Meynell, née Thompson; poet: Sylvia Townsend Warner, writer: John Nicholson Ireland, composer and pianist: Music: William Butler Yeats, poet: 'Songs sacred and profane', song cycle by John Nicholson Ireland, words by Alice Christina Gertrude Meynell, Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Butler Yeats: 1931: Engl.: Autogr. score.
• ff. 29-49 George Parker, baritone: Nicholas Breton, poet: John Nicholson Ireland, composer and pianist: Music: William Cornysshe, composer, poet and dramatist: Thomas Howell, poet: Richard Edwards, poet: Five sixteenth-century Poems, for voice and piano by John Nicholson Ireland, words by William Cornysshe, Thomas Howell, Nicholas Breton and Richard Edwards; dedicated to George Parker: 1938: Engl.: Autograph score, wanting no.4.
• ff. 51-61 John Nicholson Ireland, composer and pianist: Music: Herbert S. Brown, solicitor and amateur musician: 'The Holy Boy', arrangements by John Nicholson Ireland, words by Herbert S. Brown: 1938, n.d.: Autogr. scores.