MS Mus. 1808/1/24

Work-book 80: Start date unknown but some dates given throughout volume, see below.

• ff.1-3: General notes, including drafted text for a carol titled 'A small world'; and a list of wind band instrumentation.
• ff.3v-17: Sketches for 'Sinfonietta concertante' (op. 104), dated 23 November 2005. Also contains list of title ideas for 'Creepy-crawlies' for beginner clarinet.
• ff.17v-38: Sketches for Sonata for cello and piano (op. 103), dated 24 February 2006 on completion.
• ff.38v-47: Sketches for 'Aspects of Paradise' (op. 105), dated 3 March 2006.
• ff.47v-53: Sketches for 'Sleepy Song', used in 'Ten Terrible Tunes' (op. 106), and other unused beginner pieces for piano.
• ff.53v-71: Sketches for what became 'A Clare Eucharist' (op. 110), with early sketches for Symphony no. 1 (op. 112) (ff.59-60).
• ff.71v-74: Sketches for end of 'Aspects of Paradise' (op. 105), dated 11 - 12 July 2006 on completion.
• ff.74v-86: Newspaper cutting on Constanze Mozart (f.75); sketched mode ideas for Symphony no. 1 (op. 112) (f.76); sketches for an unfinished piano piece in mode 1 on C (ff.76v-78); a sketched setting of Christina Rosetti's 'When I am dead, my dearest' (ff.78v-80); brief sketches titled 'Machines' and 'Ring-tones'; and general notes, including lists of title ideas, structural notes and notes on phonetics.

Work-book 81: Dated 28 July 2006 onwards, no end date.

• ff.87-154: Sketches and draft scores of Symphony no. 1 (op. 112), with table of modes for 100 projected Bagatelles for piano (f.91); a setting of Christina Rosetti's 'When I am dead, my dearest' (ff.103v-104); sketched ideas for Bagatelle nos.1-3 (ff.106v-107 & 129v-130); plans for Suite no. 1 (op. 111) for solo cello (f.148v); and a song with French text titled 'Chanson de Joffroy Radel' (f.150v).
• ff.154v-155: Pitch sets, and a brief setting of the opening of Siegfried Sassoon's 'Secret Music'.
• ff.155v-159: Sketches for 'Threnody' (op. 113) for string quartet.
• ff.159v-163: Sketches for 'There is no rose' (op. 109).
• ff.162v-169: Sketches for 'Two little motets' (op. 108) - 'Anima Christi' (ff.162v-165) and 'Panis angelicus' (ff.165v-169).
• ff.169v-173: Sketches for Symphony no. 1 (op. 112) relating to f.101 of this volume; several blank pages; and unidentified structural workings inside back board.

Work-book 82: Dated 8 May 2007 onwards, no end date. Parts of this work-book were used concurrently with work-book 82a.

• ff.175-183: Modal plans and sketches for Suite no. 1 (op. 111) for solo cello, and a projected Suite no. 2. Also contains a note on consonance and dissonance inside front board; the skin of half a snake (f.178v); and a transcription of a poem by Mozart (f.179).
• ff.184-260: Structural notes and sketches for 2nd and 3rd movements of Symphony no. 1 (op. 112).
• ff.260v-261: Sketch for 'Threnody' (op. 113) for string quartet.
• ff.261v-268: Draft score and sketches of Magnificat III (op. 116).
• ff.269-273: Scoring and barrings for 2nd movement of Symphony no. 1 (op. 112).

Work-book 82a: Retrospectively dated May 2008 on opening page. Used concurrently with work-book 82.

• ff.276-278: Sketch for a choral setting of a passage from Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History of the British People'.
• ff.278v-280: Draft score of 'Verse for a birthday card' (op. 99 no. 4).
• ff.280v-283: Transcription of a Malian song for guitar and voice.
• ff.284v-286: Draft score and sketches for 'I look into my glass' (op. 119 no. 1).
• ff.286v-304: Draft score and sketches for Magnificat III (op. 116).