Music manuscripts of George Sainton Kaye Butterworth | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Music manuscripts of George Sainton Kaye Butterworth

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MSS. Mus. c. 540-1

Summary

Music manuscripts of George Sainton Kaye Butterworth comprising:

'Orchestral prelude " The cherry tree"', final title '"Shropshire lad" rhapsody', 1st violin part only in a copyist's hand.

'Idyll for small orchestra, "The banks of green willow"'. Composed 1913. Copyist's ink score, with title-page in the hand of the composer's father Sir A. Kaye Butterworth, and a note by him dated Jan. 1917. Copied from the first version of the autograph score (MS. Mus. c. 301), and with the engraver's markings in pencil for the edition published, London, Stainer & Bell, 1918.