MS Mus. 1893/2/98

For chorus and orchestra. Full title: 'An Epithalamion, or Marriage Song, on the Lady Elizabeth and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentine's Day.' Words by John Donne.

Commissioned by the BBC. First performed at the BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, 22 July 2015, by the BBC Chorus and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

(1). Autograph full score, in pencil, pp. 1-83 (295 x 420 mm). Comprising an outer bifolium enclosing two nested groupings of bifolia and folios (pp. 1-52, and pp. 53-83). Dated at the end of the score (p. 83): 1 January 2014-11 April 2015. Note: pasted-down score appears on pp. 43 and 82.

(2). Corrected printed proofs (Chester Music, 2015), pp. [1]-61 (295 x 420 mm), including two pages numbered '51'. Corrected in red ink throughout by Wood, the bottom of each page dated, from 11 February-24 April 2015.

(3). Full score draft pages:

• The opening of the work (p. 1) in photocopy autograph score (415 x 295 mm), dated 7 January 2014 and marked 'Draft Only'.
• Two pages of draft score (pencil) both headed 'insert page 55A / bar 238' (295 x 420 mm).
• 1 bifolium (2 pp. taped together: 295 x 420 mm), bars 342-360.
• Three pages of draft score in pencil, numbered 1-3 (295 x 420 mm) for the final Stanza of the work (from bar 361).
• 1 folio (headed '81'): three bars only, trombones and tuba: 'This will be tried tomorrow after nine' (from bar 412).

(4). Draft page, pencil (420 x 295 mm) from Stanza 2 ('two phoenixes').

(5). Draft page, photocopy autograph with pencil additions (420 x 295 mm). Stanza 5, from bar 277 ('Feast with gluttonous delaies is eaten').

(6). Draft page, pencil (420 x 295 mm). Stanza 6, from bar 352 ('Let not this day'). Page dated '18 March 15'.

(7). Two drafts, in pencil (all 420 x 295 mm) of the concluding Stanza, from circa bar 369 ('And by this act'):

• 4 pp., the first page dated '12 Feb';
• 6 pp, numbered 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8. Most pages dated, from 16 February to 3 March 2015.

Note: further draft music appears among the drafts for 'Ithaka' (Opus 61) - see MS Mus. 1893/2/99.