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MS 921 01 09

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MS 921 01 09

Title

Malcolm Arnold archive: Autograph scores: Solo vocal

Level

File

Date

1938-1988

Extent & medium

7 scores

Content description

7 autograph scores:

01. Kensington Gardens: A Song Cycle – words by Humbert Wolfe, full score, signed, ‘April to July 1938’; includes 'Daffodil', 'Lupin', 'Hawthorne', 'Laburnum' (pencil sketch), 'Night', 'Noon', 'the Rose', 'Why should a man' (brief pencil sketch), 'The Chestnut and the Beech Tree' (pencil),'Tulip' and also 'Pardon me Pretty Baby' (Clarinet), 'Georgia' and 'I ain't got nobody' (pencil)

02. [Two Songs for Piano and Voice] [Op. 8 (1944)]: ‘Morning Moon’ – Maurice Carpenter and ‘Neglected’ – Mei Sheng, unsigned, [n.d.], with Arnold’s Musician’s Union stamp

03. Song of Accounting Periods - words from the Finance Act 1965 Op. 103 (1969), full score, signed, ‘St Merryn January 1969’

04. [Two John Donne Songs for tenor and piano] [Op. 114b (1974)], drafts of two songs: ’The Good Morrow’, 'Woman’s Constancy’ and incomplete sketch for a third, ‘The Dreame’, [complete autograph has not been traced], unsigned, [n.d.]

05/01. Robert’s Contrasts: [Serenade] for high voice and string orchestra] [Op. 134 (1988)], full score, dedication - for Robert Tear with affection and admiration; unsigned, Attleborough July 7/88; with later inscription – ‘With Love to Anthony John Day’

05/02. Robert’s Contrasts: [Serenade] for high voice and string orchestra [Op. 134 (1988)], draft, dedication - for Robert Tear with affection and admiration, unsigned, with a note, ‘Finished Attleborough July 7/88’

05/03. Contrasts, sketches for two rejected songs and also sketches for ‘Sheep under the snow’ and ‘The rival cockade', [c.1988]
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