Selection from three volumes assembled by the Deneke family to contain manuscripts of Ernest Walkers works and associated material presented to them

Title

Selection from three volumes assembled by the Deneke family to contain manuscripts of Ernest Walkers works and associated material presented to them

Shelfmark

MS. Mus. c. 512

Summary

a (fol. 2) Review of Ernest Walker's Three dedications, copied by the composer from The Musical Times, Sep 1929;

b (fols. 5-7v) 3 notes from Ernest Walker to Margaret Deneke, dated April 1 1929, Feb. 13 and Sept. 29 1930;

c (fol. 9) 'Geburtstagblatt für C.S.D.' For piano. Dated at end April 1927. Published as no. 1 of Three dedications, op. 42, London: Oxford University Press, 1929. [See also MSS. Mus. c. 91, fol. 1 and c. 418, fol. 11];

d (fol. 10r,v) 'To Miss H.C. Deneke'. For piano. Dated 7 Jan. 1929. Published as no. 2 of Three dedication. [See also MS. Mus. c. 91, fol. 2];

e (fol. 11) 'To Miss Marga Deneke'. For piano. Dated 6 Jan. 1929. Published as no. 3 of Three dedications. [See also MS. Mus. c. 91, fol. 3];

f (fol. 12) 'Ostereistückchen für Frl. Margaret Deneke, in Wien'. For piano. Dated 31.3.1929. [See MS. Mus. b. 115, fol. 10 for further details];

g (fol. 13v) 'Fughetta' in A minor. For piano. Dated at end Sept. 12th 1931. [See MS. Mus. b. 115, fols. 15-17 for further details];

h (fol. 14) 'Hündchenlied für [Ish]'. For piano. Dated Feb. 16 1930. [See MS. Mus. b. 115, fol. 11 for further details];

i (fol. 15) 'Geburtstagsblättchen für C.S.D.' For piano. Dated 24 April 1930. [See MS. Mus. b. 115, fol. 12 for further details];

j (fol. 16) 'To the Thomas Tomkins of 1930 this wriggling canon ...'. For piano. Dated at end Sept. 9 1930. [See MS. Mus. b. 115, fol. 13 for further details];

k (fol. 16v) 'Fughetta' in E flat. For piano. Dated at end Sept. 14, 1931. [See MS. Mus. b. 115, fols. 15-17 for further details];

l (fol. 17) 'Aristotelischer Nachtgesang. On a theme from the Song of Seikelos'. For piano. Dated at end Sept. 11 1930. [See MS. Mus. b. 115, fol. 14 for further details];

m (fols. 17v-18) 'Fughetta' in E flat. For piano. Dated at end Sept. 13 1931. [See MS. Mus. b. 115, fols. 15-17 for further details];

n (fols. 18v-19) C.S. Deneke: Waltz in G major. For piano. ?Autograph. [For attribution see note on fol. 25];

o (fol. 19v) C.S.Deneke?: 'Electric bath chair'. Song. Voice part only. In the hand of Margaret Deneke(?);

p (fol. 19v) Andante in C minor for piano. Dated at end 21.8.[19]13. [See MS. Mus. c. 511, fol. 20v for further details];

q (fol. 20) 'Round for the Gunfield Choir. Poem by M.D.'. Begins: Term with its rush has come once more. Dated Sept. 3rd 1931. [See also MS. Mus. b. 115, fol. 79 and c. 511, fol. 20v];

r (fol. 21) 2 single chants and 1 double chant, all in F major and based on musical letters drawn from 'Warwick Haven, Overstrand, Cromer, Norfolk'. All dated 25.8.[19]31;

s (fol. 22) '[7] canons on the C.S.D., H.C.D., 3rd Dedication, and "Egg" themes'. Keyboard score. Dated 'Nov. and Dec. 1931';

t (fols. 23-24) '2 piano pieces: [1]: 'Im lebhaftisten [sic] Zeitmasse'. Ascribed to 'C.S.D., L.v.B., etc., etc.'; [2]: 'Langsam'. Probably composed around Dec. 1931, the second intended for 3 performers, and based on a theme from the 3rd movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E flat, op. 81a (to whose tempo marking ('Im lebhaftesten Zeitmasse') the first piece alludes);

u (fol. 25) 'Geburtstagsblatt für 16.12.1931. Tune by Schumann ['Geburtstagmarsch', no. 1 of Zwölf Klavierstücke, op. 85, for piano duet], accompaniment by various people, arranged by Ernest Walker. Poem by Ernest Walker. Song for voice and piano, with German words beginning 'Herzliche Grüsse für Ihren Geburtstag'. For Margaret Deneke's birthday;

v (fols. 26-27v) Printed exam paper for 'First examination for the degree of Doctor in Music', 4 Nov 1915, with 21 bars of a work by Ernest Walker in piano score to be orchestrated. With a manuscript note by Ernest Walker: 'This is the sketch for a possible opening of a choral setting of "Dirge in woods"'. Not related to the unaccompanied SATB setting published 1939.

See also MSS. Mus. c. 513-514.

Date

1913-1931, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

29 Leaves