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Lessons with Boris Porena : [notes]

File consists of Derek Healey's notes on his own compositions from lessons with Boris Porena in Rome.

File includes notes on the following compositions:

  • March and rhapsody : for oboe
  • Invention : for flute and cello
  • Kyrie : for tenor and bass
  • Two short pieces : for flute, mandolin, and celesta
  • Movement : for chamber orchestra
  • Movement : for string quartet
  • Movement : for oboe, bells, percussion, and harpsichord
  • In nomine : for trumpet, tambourine, bells, and harp
  • O dolce notte : for choir and orchestra [rearranged In nomine]
  • Non puo, signor mio caro : for mezzo soprano and orchestra
  • Miserere mei : motet for SATB
  • Two pieces : for piano
  • Four pieces : for piano
  • Cinque pezzi : per pianoforte
  • Movement 1, 2, and 3 : for orchestra
  • Motet : per due chori
  • Del verbo divino : motet per 6 voci
  • Five Rococo sketches : for descant recorder and piano or harpsichord
  • Mobile : for flute and six instruments.

Twelve preludes, op. 6 : rough notes and performance records

File consists of a summary of performances, a copy of the published edition by Jaymar Music (1972), newspaper clippings of reviews of performances, and correspondence with performers. File includes a video of a performance by Kei Enomoto in Fukuoka, Japan (August 11, 2023).

Notebook : [sketch and reference material]

File consists of Derek Healey's self-professed "favourite" notebook of sketch material for various compositions and other notes and compositional material (e.g., Indian talas, piano struts, etc.) that he referenced and used regularly throughout his compositional career. The notebook includes an index of contents created by Healey.

Concerto, op. 8 : rough notes and performance records

File consists of a copy of the edition published by the Royal Canadian College of Organists [2010], a summary of performances, and correspondence, programs, and reviews from various performances, including as part of the inaugural concerts on the Edward Johnson Building Concert Hall Organ, Casavant #M225HR34 (December 2, 1973).

Birthday presents and other gift music

Subseries consists of music that Derek Healey wrote as birthday presents and other gifts for his wife Olive May Healey (née Smith), Derek George Fleetwood Bell, and other family and friends.

For Derek George Fleetwood Bell

File consists of three manuscript scores written for Derek George Fleetwood Bell:

  • Irish legend : for oboe and piano (completed September 15, 1959)
  • Three atonal pieces : for piano (completed October 3, 1959)
  • Chant : for oboe and piano (completed November 1960).

For Olive May Healey (nee Smith)

File consists of eight manuscript scores written as birthday and Christmas presents for Derek Healey's wife, Olive May Healey (nee Smith):

  • A Pastoral fantasy : for piano (Christmas present for Olive; December 1956)
  • The May-tree : for soprano and piano (Olive's 20th birthday; completed April 19, 1957)
  • Piece : oboe and piano (Christmas present for Olive; completed December 22, 1960)
  • Song without words no. 1 : for oboe and piano (for Olive's 24th birthday ; completed April 12, 1961)
  • Duo : oboe and mandolin (Christmas present for Olive; completed December 23, 1961)
  • Loveliest of trees : for soprano and piano (text by A.E. Houseman; dedicated to Olive; completed April 29, 1963)
  • Nel modo romantico : for oboe and piano (Christmas present for Olive; 1963)
  • Waltz "A,B" and March "B" March : for descant recorder and piano (to [daughter] Jackie [Healey] and Olive; Christmas 1965).

For other people

File consists of six manuscript scores written as birthdays, weddings, and funerals:

  • Love is patient and kind : for choir and organ (anthem for the wedding of Maureen Gibbons and Leslie Thomas; January 7, 1959).
  • Janet's fancy : for clarinet and piano (for Janet Barton; dated March 1959)
  • Elegy : for organ (for the funeral of George Wylde Leyland; August 2, 1959)
  • What happens when.... : a tragic cantata for Ralph Stenner's 21st birthday party : for four voices and piano (completed November 15, 1959)
  • Sarabande : for organ (for the funeral of Healey's grandmother Edith Rose; January 14, 1960)
  • Cinque pezzi : per pianoforte (dedicated to Ralph and Janet Stenner; March 13, 26, 1963).

Rough notes and performance records

Series consists of Derek Healey's rough notes, including manuscript sketches and drafts, for his compositions, which he began to keep and maintain after a conversation with librarian Rollyn Morris at the University of Victoria. After 1999, when Healey began to compose on the computer (starting with Six Canadian Folk Songs, Set II, op. 86, these rough notes are fewer, as the majority of his "notes" were on the computer. These later compositions include printouts of the work's status about a week after it was started.

Series also contains performance records for Healey's compositions, including correspondence with performers, programs, posters, reviews, and other pertinent materials. Healey began collecting performance materials after arriving in Canada in August 1979.

Series also includes notes on Healey's compositions taken during and following lessons with Boris Porena (1962-1963) and his "favourite" notebook with sketch and reference material (e.g., Indian talas, piano struts, etc.) that he referenced and used regularly throughout his compositional career.

A hymn of glory : for SSATB and organ

File consists of typeset computer score masters. In a review in Creator (March/April 2006), the piece was described as a "simply wonderful festival piece which, while useful for general purposes, is especially suited for the celebration of Ascension." Text by the Venerable Beded, translated by Elizabeth Charles and Benjamin Webb.

The Garden : for SATB and organ

File consists of typeset score masters for "a positive melodic setting of Isaac Watt's mystical text, with an important organ part. Suitable for Harvest, Rogationtide, Thanksgiving, or General use. Not difficult." Text by Isaac Watts (1675-1748), adapted by Robert Bridges (1844-1930).

Divisions : for brass quartet

File consists of a copy of the handwritten masters for "the colourful set of tonal variations [that] is suitable for both educational sor concert use. Not difficult. The tuba part is ad lib." May be performed by any equivalent instrumentation.

Lustra : for baritone and orchestra

File consists of a bound copy of the handwritten original score. Healey's note inside reads: "'Lustra' for baritone and orchestra, was to be the first of a set of songs set to poems of Ezra Pound. 'Lustra' was the only one completed—the remainder were not even started. 'Lustra' was composed in Siena, Italy in July 1966 at the Academi Chigiana with Goffredo Petrassi."

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