Identity area
Reference code
OTUFM 10-A-009
Title
Four songs to poems by Edith Sitwell : for high voice and piano
Date(s)
- 1949 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 ms. score (11 p.) : copies + 1 ms. score (11, 2 p.) : ink transparencies + 7 ms. scores (2, 7, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2 p.) : ink
Context area
Name of creator
(1927-2022)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
John Beckwith (1996); Kathleen McMorrow (A2024-02)
Content and structure area
Scope and content
File consists of a copy of the manuscript score, the manuscript score transparencies, and manuscripts individual songs. The set, with text by Edith Sitwell, included the following songs:
- Come, my Arabia
- My desert has a noble sun for a heart
- The Queen Bee sighed
- The youth with the red-gold hair.
File also includes transparencies for a fifth song "You, the Young Rainbow," which was omitted from the final version, and a manuscript score for "Two Kitchen Songs" with texts by Edith Sitwell (dated December 1949).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Text in English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Former identifiers
1.3 - 78377 rbsc