Series 12: Peggy Glanville-Hicks music manuscripts, 1935-1978

MLMSS 6394/50X-52X

series

1935-1978

152700

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A. Ballets Killer-of-enemies : ballet in two acts with narrator, op. 21 /
text by Erick Hawkins. New York City, September 1946, January 1947. 1 short score. 27 pages. Bound facsimile of manuscript in the composer’s hand, with pencil annotations.

B. Choral Works/Part-songs Madrigal no. 2 / poem, Wallace Stevens. New York City, 1955. 1 score for SATB. 3 pages. Facsimile of manuscript [in the composer’s hand]. Stamped: “American Composers Alliance Library...New York”.

Madrigal no. 5 / poem, Wallace Stevens. [Undated]. 1 score for SATB. 2 pages. Facsimile of manuscript [in the composer’s hand]. Stamped: “American Composers Alliance Library...New York”.

Madrigal no. 6 / poem, Wallace Stevens. [Undated]. 1 score for SATB. 3 pages. Facsimile of manuscript [in the composer’s hand]. Stamped: “American Composers Alliance Library...New York”.

C. Concertos Concerto antiqua : for solo harp and string quartet. [Undated]. 1 short score, part I only. 11 pages. [In the composer’s hand]. [See also Concertino antico under Instrumental Chamber Works].

Concerto antiqua : for solo harp and string quartet. [Undated]. 1 short score, part I only. 11 pages. Facsimile of manuscript [in the composer’s hand]. With annotations. Annotation in unknown hand: “For Edna Phillips”. [See also Concertino antico under Instrumental Chamber Works].

Concerto romantico : for viola and chamber orchestra. Starnberg bei München, 1956. 1 short score, 30 pages, dated 1956 and 1 solo viola part, 9 pages, undated. Facsimiles of manuscript [in the composer’s hand]. For Walter Trampler.

Etruscan concerto. [Undated]. Pencil sketch of piano reduction, first movement. 2 pages. [In the composer’s hand]. Incomplete.

Etruscan concerto : for piano & chamber orchestra. New York City, 1954. 1 short score. 31 pages. Bound facsimile of manuscript [in the composer’s hand], with pencil annotations. For Carlo Bussotti. Stamped: “American Composers Alliance Library…New York”.

D. Instrumental Chamber Works
[Concertino antico : for solo harp and string quartet]. München, 1955. 1 full score. Pages 10 to 22 only [attached note in composer’s hand reads. Pages 1-9 missing on fullscore”]. Facsimile of manuscript in the composer’s hand, with annotations. [See also Concerto antiqua under Concertos].

Concertino antico : for solo harp & string quartet. München, 1955. 1 full score. 22 pages. Master transparencies [in the composer’s hand] prepared for Composers Facsimile Edition 1955. Written for, and dedicated to Edna Phillips. Previous title : Concerto antiqua. [See also Concerto antiqua under Concertos].

Concertino da camera : for flute clarinet bassoon & pianoforte. New York, 1942. 1 full score. 26 pages. Bound facsimile of manuscript in the composer’s hand. Annotation [in the hand of Ralph Vaughan Williams]: “Return to R Vaughan Williams The White Gates Dorking”.

Concertino da camera. [Undated]. Parts for flute (6 pages), clarinet [in B flat] (5 pages), and bassoon (4 pages), [in the composer’s hand].

Concertino da camera. [Undated]. Part for clarinet in A, in unknown hand. 6 pages. With pencil annotations.

Girondelle for giraffes. [Sydney], 1978. For flute and piccolo, trombone, double bass, drum and suspended cymbal. 1 score (3 pages) and parts [in the composer’s hand], and photocopies with manuscript annotations. For Sculpture Show of Pamela Bowden.

Gymnopédia I : “Santorini”. [Undated]. 1 sketch.1 page. [In the composer’s hand]. With unidentified sketches attached. 4 pages.

Musica antiqua no. 1 : for flutes, harp, marimba & percussion. New York City, 1957. 1 full score. 42 pages. Master transparencies [in the composer’s hand] prepared for Composers Facsimile Edition 1959.

Musica antiqua no. 1 : for flutes, harp, marimba & percussion. New York City, 1957. 1 full score. 42 pages. Facsimile of manuscript in the composer’s hand.

Musica antiqua no. 1. Parts for harp (17 pages), percussion II (6 pages) and timpani (6 pages) in unknown hand, with pencil annotations.

Pre-columbian prelude & presto. New York City, 1957. 1 score for piccolo, flute 1, pan pipes, whistles 1 and 2, flute 2, owl, armadillo, maracas, scraper, split drums I and II, conch and drum. 9 pages. Master transparencies [in the composer’s hand] prepared for Composers Facsimile Edition 1959.

Pre-columbian prelude & presto. [Undated]. Parts for split drums I, drums II/maracas/(pan pipe)/(conch) and head drum/(conch)/bone scraper. Each 3 pages. [In the composer’s hand].

E. Music for Films
The African story. 1 full score for piccolo, marimba (bass), timpani and tom tom, wood block, triangle, maracas and three pedal drums. [Undated]. 18 pages. Master transparencies [in the composer’s hand] prepared for Composers Facsimile Edition 1959. [Music for the film All Our Children, produced by the United Nations].

A scary time : a “Halloween Piece” for UNICEF. 1960. 1 full score for violin, clarinet and percussion. 29 pages. Master transparencies [in the composer’s hand] prepared for Composers Facsimile Edition 1960. [Music for an animated film documentary on the Suez crisis].

Tel : animated cartoon. [Undated]. 1 full score for clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, violin I, violin II and cello with pencil annotations. 67 pages. [In the composer’s hand]. Music for cartoon film produced by Film Graphics, Inc.]

Tulsa : a documentary film on Tulsa, Oklahoma made by U.S. State Department for circulation in occupied territory. 1949. 1 full score for orchestra with pencil annotations. 76 pages. [In the composer’s hand].

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F. Operas
Caedmon : opera in one act (3 scenes). 1935-6. 1 full score. 186 pages. In the composer’s hand.

Nausicaa. Sketches. [Undated]. 1 binder, 27 pages, and 5 loose pages. [In the composer’s hand].

Nausicaa : an opera in three acts, with prologue,interludes and epilogue / after the novel “Homer’s Daughter, by Robert Graves; Libretto arranged by Alastair Reid, in collaboration with the novelist. [Undated]. 1 vocal score. Interlude I only. 10 pages. Facsimile of manuscript [in the composer’s hand].

Sappho : opera in three acts / libretto from the play by Lawrence Durrell. [Undated]. 1 full score, Act 1 only. 231 pages. Photocopy of manuscript [in the composer’s hand].

Sappho : opera in three acts / libretto from the play by Lawrence Durrell. [Undated]. 1 vocal score, Act 1 only. 63 pages. Photocopy of manuscript [in the composer’s hand}. Also includes Synopsis, Acts 1 - 3, 4 pages.

The transposed heads : opera in 6 scenes / from the novel by Thomas Mann; libretto by Peggy Glanville Hicks; [based on the English translation by H.T. Lowe-Porter]. Port Antonio : 1953. 1 vocal score. 112 pages. Bound facsimile of manuscript [in the composer’s hand] with extensive annotations [? by Moritz Bomhard]. Dedicated to Theo Flynn.

The transposed heads : interlude. [Undated]. 1 full score. 4 pages. Facsimile of manuscript [in the composer’s hand]. Incomplete. [See short score page 101 where Interlude to be inserted].

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G. Orchestral Works Meditation for orchestra. Athens, 1964. 1 full score in the composer’s hand (38 pages) and complete set of parts [in an unknown hand]. Master transparencies prepared for Composers Facsimile Edition 1965. A “Quiet Piece” commissioned by E. Benjamin for the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra.

Meditation for orchestra. [Undated]. Complete set of parts [in an unknown hand].

Sinfonietta for small orchestra in D minor. 1935. 1 full score. 77 pages. In the composer’s hand.

H. Piano Works Pastoral for piano. Vienna, 1936. 1 score. 2 pages. In the composer’s hand.

I. Solo Vocal Works with Instrumental Ensemble
Dance cantata : for narrator, tenor, speaking and singing chorus and orchestra. 1947. 1 full score, Act I only. 64 pages. [In the composer’s hand].
Profile from China : five songs for tenor, piano & strings. New York, 1945. 1 full score with pencil annotations. 14 pages. In the composer’s hand. nnotation in the composer’s hand: “Original”. Stamped: “American Composers Alliance Library...New York”. Also photocopy of same score.

Thomsoniana : for soprano, flute, horn, piano & string quartet / five excerpts from the daily press by Virgil Thompson. New York City, 1949. 1 full score shown as short score on front sheet]. 25 pages. Master transparencies [in the composer’s hand] prepared for Composers Facsimile Edition 1952. Attached explanatory note in the composer’s hand reads: ‘N.B. The “Herald Tribune” cover page should always be printed with the photostat copies. Also, always, the page of Texts. PGH. P.S. They are the “clue” To the Joke’.

Thomsoniana / five excerpts from the daily press.1 short score. 14 pages. Master transparencies [in the composer’s hand] prepared for Composers Facsimile Edition 1952.

Thomsoniana. 1 complete set of parts, with pencil annotations. Copied by Helen Williams MAGA N. S.W. Div. 22.8.1976.

J. Solo Vocal Works with Piano
Sidi amar in winter / poem by Paul Bowles, 1935. New York, 1946-47. 1 score. 4 pages. Transparencies in the composer’s hand. With 1 page inserted of poem, typescript.

K. Unidentified Fragments/Sketches
3 pages, in pencil. [In the composer’s hand].

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