Sketches and vocal music

Title

Sketches and vocal music

Shelfmark

MS. Mus. b.501

Summary

Sketches:

Drafts of dance movements: Bourée, 15 Nov 1903; March and Minuet, Jun 1931; various, 12 Feb 1933; Minuet, 3 Jan 1935; Minuet, 26 and 30 Sep 1935; Minuet, 21 Jan 1947; Minuet and Bourée, n.d.

Pencil sketch of 'Grave' in G minor, 20 and 22 Feb 1911.

Keyboard piece in G major. Draft in pencil, with further sketches 'For Roe' on verso, 30 Nov 1917.

2 sketches of 'Trio' in B minor, one in pencil (torn), one in ink, both dated 10 Dec 1917. On verso of the ink draft there are other fragements, 1918-1922.

Pencil sketches with no clefs, possibly in G major, 16 Feb 1929.

Sketch of a 'Concerto for organ and orchestra' in G minor; the music is the same as in 'Concerto or Overture for string band'), n.d.

Thematic incipits of 'Six fugues for the organ': D major, G major, G minor, G minor, A minor and C minor, n.d.

Sketch 'A tempo giusto' for organ in C major, n.d.

5 leaves from one music book with various sketches in pencil and ink (a quarter of the first leaf is torn away), n.d.

Leaf of harmony exercises (in pencil on recto) and sketches (in ink on verso), n.d.

Fragment in pencil, n.d.

Cut-out of leaf with a sketch of music in thick ink, n.d.

2 quires of unrealised figured bass, one in G minor (6 pages) and one in B minor (10 pages), n.d.

Notebook including versions of passages in various compositions, 1947-1948, with an insert containing the 3rd version of a passage in Fugue in G major with a letter (on verso) to Thomas [Armstrong] dated 12 Jan 1948.

6 oblong bifolia of blank manuscript paper, with a sheet of used blotting paper.

Vocal music:

'Incidental music to [Thomas] Gotch's picture "Alleluia"', part of the tableaux vivants exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1896. Includes: score for violin 1, violin 2, viola and bassi dated 12 and 14 Mar 1901; score dated 22 Mar 1901; undated score; undated version for piano; bass part for 'Praise God'.

'Benedictus qui venit' for soprano solo, oboes, bassoon, violins, viola and basso continuo. Includes: score (dated 25 Oct 19005); vocal score marked 'Singer's copy'; vocal score marked 'organ'; 2 further vocal scores, with a set of 25 instrumental parts (not all in T.W. Bourne's hand).

Kyrie for SATB unaccompanied (with English words). Includes: score on 4 staves (dated 3 Nov 1896); score on 2 staves; 4 cyclostyled copies.

'Truth descending from the sky' for soprano and piano, 27 May 1886. Score. The text seems to have been taken from Handel's oratorio The Triumph of time and truth.

'Wondrous sounds the trumpet flingeth', funeral anthem for bass voices in unison and organ, n.d. Score, not in T.W. Bourne's hand.

Date

1886-1948, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box