MS Mus. 1808/1/20

Work-book 68: Dated 14 August 1999 onwards, no end date.

• ff.1-3: Text of 'Perturbèd spirit' (op. 85), and crossed-out sketch setting poem beginning 'Darlink, you are wonderful'.
• ff.4-21: Draft score of 'Epilogue' of movement 5 of 'HAVOC' (op. 83).
• ff.22-38: Sketches and general notes, including an idea for 'The Two Nowells' (op. 77 no. 2) (f.22); revisions to the flute part of 'Flight of the swan' (op. 82) (ff.22v-24); sketches for a choral setting of a poem by Swayne (ff.25v-27); sketches for a choral setting of Keats' 'La belle dame sans merci' (ff.27v-32); sketches for 'Perturbèd spirit' (op. 85) and 'The Akond of Swat' (op. 84) (ff.32v-34); and sketches for an unfinished song setting a poem by Pippa King (ff.34v-38).
• ff.38v-53: Sketches for 'Perturbèd spirit' (op. 85).
• ff.54-57: General notes and sketches. Includes a transcription of the pitches of an occarina; notes on the structure of 'I am Monarch of the Sea' from Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore; a brief unidentified sketch setting text beginning 'I'm a heterosexual male...'; and an abandoned setting of Edward Lear's 'The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo'.
• ff.57v-80: Sketches for an operatic setting of Sophocles' 'Antigone'with text translated by Swayne into demotic English; and sketches for the end of the prologue to 'Hamlet' (ff.62v-65v).
• ff.81-93: General notes and sketches, some unidentified, and with some blank pages. Includes brief transcriptions titled 'Gay Paree', the 'Can-Can', and 'Sous le ponte de Paree'; notes on the ranges and capabilities of the theorbo and baroque harp; notes on instrumentation for a concerto grosso; structural notes for a wind quintet; an undated diary entry; a transcription of Italian poem 'Mancanza'; and a pasted biography of Delia Peel.

Work-book 69: Dated 13 September 2000 - 23 January 2001.

• ff.95-101: Notes and sketches for 'Mancanza' (op. 86), with diary entries dated 20 September 2000 and 18 January 2001.
• ff.101v-113: Sketches for Act I of 'Hamlet'.
• ff.113v-133: Sketches for the Act III finale of 'Hamlet', with ff.123v-133 left largely blank except page numbers.
• ff.133v-170v: Further sketches for Act I of 'Hamlet'.
• ff.170v-176: Sketches for a love-song in Italian.
• ff.176-179: General notes, including a list of concert venues in Brisighella, Italy; text from Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus'; and notes and a structural table for Act I scene 1 of 'Hamlet'.

Work-book 70: Dated 19 January 2001 onwards, no end date. This work-book was used concurrently with work-book 71. Contains work on a setting of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. Work-book largely blank from f.209 onwards, with exception of a table of bar numbers and durations towards end of volume.