MS Mus. 1893/2/81

Settings of twelve poems by Robert Graves, for high voice and piano. The file comprises a series of fair copy scores in pencil, including, in two instances, draft music.

Most songs have been scored on bifolia (295 x 420 mm) which have 15 staves (3 groups of 5 staves). For many songs, Wood has pasted-down 2 additional staves to make a 17-stave page (thus, the pasted-down elements do not represent revision of the score, although 'A Lost Jewel' may be an exception to this – see below).

I. 'A Dream of Frances Speedwell'. 1 bifolium (295 x 420 mm), including additional pasted-down staves. Date: 3 August 2005.

II. 'Wild Cyclamen'. 1 bifolium (295 x 420 mm), including additional pasted-down staves. Date: 15 August 2005.

III. 'Beatrice and Dante'. 1 bifolium (295 x 420 mm), including additional pasted-down staves. Date: 25 September 2005.

IV. 'The Garden':

• Fair copy. 1 bifolium (270 x 370 mm). Date: 4 October 2005.
• Draft. 1 bifolium (270 x 370 mm). Date: 30 September and 3 October 2005.

V and VI. 'The Leap' and 'Not to Sleep'. Continuous score (attacca). 2 nested bifolia (295 x 420 mm), including additional pasted-down staves (in 'Not to Sleep'). Date: 20 October 2005.

VII. 'The Crab-Tree':

• Fair copy. 1 bifolium with a nested single folio (270 x 370 mm). Date: 6 November 2005.
• Draft. 1 bifolium (240 x 300 mm). Date: 31 October 2005).

VIII. 'Bites and Kisses'. 1 bifolium (295 x 420 mm), including additional pasted-down staves. Date: 25 November 2005.

IX. 'Horizon'. 1 bifolium (295 x 420 mm). Date: 9 January 2006.

X. 'The Window Sill'. 1 bifolium (295 x 420 mm), including pasted-down staves. Date: 5 December 2005.

XI. 'A Lost Jewel'. 1 bifolium (295 x 420 mm), including pasted-down photocopy autograph score (3 staves at the top of p. 3). Date: 20 January 2006.

XII. 'Hedges Freaked with Snow'. 1 folio (295 x 420 mm). Date: 22 January 2006.