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MS Mus. 1804/8/1

Record Id:

040-003474883

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003474326

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100096453883.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1804/8/1

Title:

Thea Musgrave: Correspondence: Contracts

Scope & Content:

Contracts (including letters of engagement), for composition commissions and performance engagements, accompanied, in some cases, by a small quantity of correspondence discussing terms. There are typically three contracting parties, Musgrave, her publisher, and the commissioner, with the contract drafted usually by her publisher.

(1.) Adam lay y-bounden. The contract for this work covers the series of choral commissions of which it forms part: the other composers party to the contract are Richard Allain, Christopher Robinson, Kenneth Hesketh, John Duggan, and James Whitbourn.
(2.) Aurora
(3.) Autumn Sonata (bass-clarinet concerto)
(4.) Black Tambourine
(5.) Cantilena
(6.) A Christmas Carol
(7.) Concerto for Orchestra
(8.) Echoes Through Time
(9.) Five Songs for Spring (baritone-and-piano version)
(10.) For the Time Being
(11.) Going North
(12.) Green
(13.) Harriet, the Woman Called Moses
(14.) Hear the Voice of the Bard
(15.) Helios (oboe concerto)
(16.) Incidental music: Christmas Has Come
(17.) Incidental music: The Devil and John Brown
(18.) engagement for Focus (Border Television current affairs programme on which Musgrave was interviewed on 1 May 1962)
(19.) Incidental music: Framework for a Nation
(20.) Incidental music: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Old Vic production)
(21.) Incidental music: A Mummer's Tale
(22.) Incidental music: No Star on the way back
(23.) Ithaca
(24.) Journey into Light
(25.) Journey through a Japanese Landscape (marimba concerto)
(26.) Lamenting with Ariadne
(27.) Largo in Homage to B.A.C.H
(28.) Loch Ness - a postcard from Scotland
(29.) Mary, Queen of Scots (including correspondence with Belwin Mills Publishers and with Stanley Barr, then chair of the Virginia Opera Association Board of Directors)
(30.) Midnight
(31.) The Mocking-Bird
(32.) Moving into Aquarius
(33.) Night Windows (oboe and piano version)
(34.) Nurse's Songs of Innocence and Experience
(35.) On the Underground Set No. 1 (On gratitude, love & madness)
(36.) On the Underground Set No. 2 (The Strange & the Exotic)
(37.) On the Underground Set No. 3 (A Medieval Summer)
(38.) Phoenix Rising
(39.) Pierrot
(40.) Poets in Love
(41.) Points of View
(42.) Pontalba
(43.) Rainbow
(44.) The Seasons
(45.) Simón Bolívar (most correspondence about contracts for this work is at MS Mus. 1804/1/12/2)
(46.) Sing to Celebrate Summer
(47.) Snapshots
(48.) Snow
(49.) Song of the Enchanter
(50.) Songs for a Winter's Evening
(51.) Starlight
(52.) Sunrise
(53.) Taking Turns
(54.) Threnody
(55.) Towards the Blue
(56.) Turbulent Landscapes
(57.) Two's Company
(58.) Viola Concerto
(59.) Voices from the Ancient World
(60.) Wild Winter I: Lamentations for voices and viols
(61.) Wind Quintet
(62.) Wood, Metal, and Skin (percussion concerto)

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003474326
036-003474336
040-003474883

Is part of:

MS Mus. 1804 : Thea Musgrave Collection
MS Mus. 1804/8 : Thea Musgrave: Correspondence

MS Mus. 1804/8/1 : Thea Musgrave: Correspondence: Contracts

Hierarchy:

032-003474326[0008]/036-003474336[0001]/040-003474883

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1804

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1962

End Date:

2013

Date Range:

1962-2013

Era:

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Arrangement:

The contracts have been arranged in alphabetical order by work title (with all incidental music and engagements for Border Television filed under “I” for “Incidental”).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bennett, Richard Rodney, Knight, composer, 1936-2012
Rizza, George, managing director Novello & Co Ltd, b 1925
Whitbourn, James, composer, b 1963