Shelfmark
MS 408A
Author
Title
Can't get up [manuscript] : [part-song for four bass voices] / [music by Victor Hely-Hutchinson].
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Eton?], ca. 1919.
Physical description
1 ms. score ([2] p.) ; 16 x 25 cm.
Language
English words.
Language
Staff notation.
Note
Holograph score in black ink.
Note
Ms. inscription not by the composer on p. 2: "by Victor Hely Hutchinson done as a penalty for being frequently late at Sunday morning prayers (about 1919)".
Note
Title from caption.
Note
Place of production inferred from Eton College Library documentation.
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 408A.
Provenance
In a letter dated July 3, 1955 (see MS 408E), John Foster Crace, his tutor at Eton, mentioned that he had asked Hely-Hutchinson to set the words 'Can't get up' to music as a 'poena' for repeatedly being late to Sunday prayers.
Binding
Inserted in clear plastic wrapper.
Subject
Hely-Hutchinson, Victor, 1901 - 1947 Manuscripts.
Subject
Choruses, Secular (Equal voices) Scores.
Subject
Music Manuscripts.
Subject
Part songs, English Scores.
Genre/Form
Scores.
Genre/Form
Part songs.
Added entry--name
Crace, John Foster former owner.
Added entry--place
England Eton.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53383