Sub-series 1: Original compositions by Nancy Salas

MLMSS 11595/Boxes 31X-32X

sub-series

1930-1959

Manuscript Notated Music, Textual Records

9665864

0.68 metres of textual material (2 outsize boxes)

BOX 31X
BALLETS AND MUSICALS
The flying pieman : a ballet impression of old Sydney / story by Frances Shaw, décor by Roderick Shaw, music by Nan Salas, undated. Draft manuscript short score in pencil, typescript synopsis (14 pages) & newscutting, 3 June 1950.

The silver troubadour : romantic operetta (musical comedy) / music by Nancy Salas; lyrics by Charles F. Bullock; libretto by Paul Furniss, 1933. Includes typescript libretto (3 copies), conductor’s vocal score, vocal and orchestral parts.

BOX 32X
CHAMBER MUSIC
Impromptu. For viola and piano. Manuscript score in pencil.

Michael’s rockabye : for wind quintet / Nancy Salas. For Michael. Manuscript score and parts in pencil & ink, 1959; another set of manuscript parts in ink in the hand of a copyist, 1959.

Peart’s fanfare : for recorders (2 treble, tenor & bass). Incomplete manuscript piano score in ink.

Variations on an original theme. For viola and piano. Manuscript score in pencil.

PIANO MUSIC
Kestral suite : two piano suite / Nancy Salas. For John and Judy. Two manuscript scores in pencil, 1952.

Theme for Eric Gross / Nancy Salas. Manuscript score in ink.

VOCAL MUSIC
[Album] The dead cicada; To a locust; Overture for Soprano with tenor & bass recorder; God save the Queen; Fanfare for recorders. Manuscript score in pencil.Agincourt song. For [voice] and piano. Manuscript score in pencil.

Blue collar / words by Confucius ; translated by Cranmer-Byng ; music by Nancy Salas. For voice and piano. Manuscript score in pencil and manuscript score in ink, Kalgoorlie, 1933.

The daffodils / poem by William Wordsworth ; music by Nancy Salas. For voice and piano. Two manuscript scores in ink (one incomplete); manuscript score in pencil, together with Church music / words by John Milton ; I am quite OK (chorus).

The dead cicada / words from Pam Philus ; translated by Edward Stokes. For voice and harpsichord. Manuscript score in ink.

East wind / by Nancy Salas. [Operetta?]. For vocal ensemble (Paul, Claudette, René and officers) and piano. Manuscript score in pencil and ink, 1934.

I sometimes think / words by Omar Khyyam ; music by Nancy Salas. For voice and piano. Manuscript score in ink, together with There was a door ; Thou beside me singing.

A lament / words and music by Nancy Salas. For voice and piano. Manuscript score in pencil and manuscript score in ink, Sydney, 1935.

Little witch / words and music by Nancy Salas. For voice and piano. Manuscript draft score in pencil and ink.

The ocean / words by Lord Byron ; music by Nancy Salas. For voice and piano. Manuscript score in ink, Kalgoorlie, 1930.

Queen of the southern sea / words by Iris Maybury ; music by [Nancy Salas?] For voice and piano. Manuscript score in ink for competition entry.

There was a door / words by Omar Khyyam ; music by Nancy Salas. For voice and piano. Incomplete manuscript score in ink, together with manuscript score in pencil for I sometimes think ; A fancy.

Thou beside me singing / words by Omar Khyyam ; music by Nancy Salas. For voice and piano. Manuscript score in pencil.

To a locust / words by Meleager ; translated by William Hardinge ; music by Nancy Salas. For voice and harpsichord. For Margaret Cummings. Manuscript score in ink.

FRAGMENTS AND UNIDENTIFIED MUSIC

Please note: BOX 32X also contains manuscript copies of music by other composers (see Sub-series 4)

By genre, then alphabetical by title

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