MS Mus. 1745/2/13/2

The material comprises a number of groupings of draft full score, various sketch sheets partly in vocal score form, and short score sketches for Scene 4.

Threlfall, I/6.

(1). ff. 1-155. Draft full score.

Drafted in pencil on ungathered bifolia, all 36-stave 543 x 350 mm.

• ff. 1-38. Act I, Scenes 2-3, pp. 1-43; and, continuing on the verso of p. 43, [Act II, Scene 4], lacking the ending, pp. 1-33. 19 bifolia.
• ff. 39-56. [Scene 1] = Prologue, 8 un-numbered pages (identified by Threlfall as i-vii followed by a blank page) followed by pp. 4-30 (including two pages numbered 8). 9 bifolia.
• ff. 57-80. [Scenes 2-3], pp. 48-96 (NB there is no p. 49 - the verso of p. 48 is p. 50). A later stage of composition than Scenes 2-3 above. 12 bifolia.
• ff. 81-105. [Scene 4, lacking the start]. Un-numbered (identified by Threlfall as ff. 1-26, f. 26 being blank). Again, a later stage of composition than Scene 4 above. 13 bifolia.
• ff. 106-147. [Scenes 5-6], lacking the ending. Un-numbered (identified by Threlfall as ff. 27-68). 21 bifolia.
• ff. 148-155. Portions of Scene 6, comprising rejected sheets from the final score (some inked-in), identified by Threlfall as ff. 69-76.

(2). Various pencil sketch sheets partly in vocal score form (ff. 156-169)

• f. 156. The upper portion of previously-used score paper (now, 14 staves, 215 x 290 mm.), a short-score sketch for the climax and end of the interpolated Walk to the Paradise Garden. With further pencil sketches on the verso.
• f. 157. Lower portion of score paper roughly torn across (now, 11 staves, approx. 240 x 270 mm) with pencil sketches on recto and verso for the fairground scene.
• f. 158. Headed 'R & J'. Pencil sketches for the fairground and closing scenes. 15-stave, 347 x 271 mm.
• f. 159. 'Vreli my own'. Pencil sketches. 16-stave, 342 x 265 mm.
• f. 160. 'Fiddler' and 'their little children'. On the verso (annotated 'good'), horn calls used at the start of Scene 6. 18-stave, 350 x 270 mm.
• f. 161. 'Vagabonds are we'. 16-stave, 350 x 270 mm.
• f. 162. Basic notes for the fairground scene. 18-stave, 353 x 270 mm.
• f. 163. 'S & V dancing', paginated as pp. 4-5. 15-stave, 355 x 270 mm.
• ff. 164-165. 'The fiddler plays a few strains / on his fiddle', paginated as pp. 14, 15, 16, 16. 1 bifolium, 16-stave, 350 x 272 mm.
• ff. 166-169. 'Our wedding bed awaits us' (f. 166); 'Finale' (f. 168); '(They drift away a close embrace)' (f. 169r); and 'The boat disappears' (f. 169v). 2 gathered bifolia, 16-stave, 350 x 272 mm.

(3). Short score sketches for Scene 4 (ff. 170-173).

• Sketched on the versos of pages from an early score of the Piano Concerto (the Concerto material on the paginated rectos - pp. 8, 48, 49 and 51 - has been photocopied and placed with other Concerto material in MS Mus. 1745/2/13/1).