Add MS 50455 A

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XCV A (ff. i+55). Sketches and notes for 'Five Tudor Portraits', other poems by Skelton from 'The Garland of Laurel', etc. Autograph. (1) Saraband, 'Helen', part of Marlowe's 'Dr Faustus', set for tenor, chorus and orchestra. Beg. 'Was this the face'. Kennedy, 1982, p. 81. See also Add. MS. 71492, art. 3. ff. 1-12;- (2) 'Pageant Scene IV', setting of the 'Old Hundredth' possibly intended for the Abinger Pageant, 1934. Kennedy, 1982, p. 172. ff. 12b-13;- (3) 'Epitaph on John Jayberd of Diss', from 'Five Tudor Portraits'. ff. 13b-15, 40b-42;- (4) 'My soul praise the Lord', setting of Psalm 104. Lacks the descant part noted by Kennedy, 1982, p. 162. ff. 15b-16;- (5) 'Jane Scroop (Her Lament for Philip Sparrow)', from 'Five Tudor Portraits'. Includes (f. 17) a 'Note for str[ing] 4tet', perhaps for the second movement of the double trio for string sextet, 1938. See Kennedy, 1982, p. 173. ff. 16b-26b;- (6) 'Margery Wentworth', rejected setting for 'Five Tudor Portraits'. ff. 21, 32, 34-35;-

(7) 'The Tunning of Elinor Rumming', from 'Five Tudor Portraits'. See also sketches in Add. MS. 71493. ff. 27-31, 35b rev.;- (8) 'My Pretty Bess', from 'Five Tudor Portraits'. ff. 31b-33b;- (9) 'Prologue'. Extract from Skelton's 'The Garland of Laurel', partly set to music. Includes (f. 39b) a 'Note for Isabel Pennel'. See Skelton, ibid. ff. 36-40;- (10) 'Anne Dacre'. See Skelton, ibid. ff. 41b-42b;- (11) Three two-part fugues, in C minor, C and F, and one three-part fugue in F. ff. 53b-43 rev.;- (12) Quotations from the Book of Baruch, iv, 36-37; v, 1, 5, 6, 9. ff. 54b-55 rev.

In notebook. Black cloth binding.