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Archive: RNCM
Collection: Ena Mitchell Collection
Reference: EM/1
Title: Autograph or autographed MSS
Level: Series
Extent: 46 items
Creator:
Dates: 1938-1954
Scope and content: Songs, for voice and piano. Music by: David Barlos: An Epitaph. Gwendolyn Bray: A song of slumbers; The happy tree; The little waves of Breeney (3 copies); Aubade no.1 [for string quartet]. Gordon Cameron: The Siller [sic] Crown. Desmond Dean: The dear little shamrock; My gentle Irish girl. John Dow: two songs from A Shropshire Lad. Harold Forsyth: Johnny Git Oot [sic]. P.Racine Fricker: 3 sonnets of Cecco Angiolieri da Siena [with instruments]. H.I.: Reed Robin. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser: Deidres Farewell; The Christ Child's Lullaby. W.Halstead Key: All suddenly the wind comes soft; Weathers; The Comb (2 copies); The Pilgrim Way. Vernon Lathom-Sharp: Reve d'amour. Elisabeth Lutyens (arr. for string orchestra): The Singer; Three Songs of Fantasy; Dream Song. Elizabeth Maconchy (arr.): Shoheen Sho. Havelock Nelson: Jack-o-lantern; The King's Daughter; To His Saviour, A Child...; Prayer for a Child; Colm's Cat; Lovely Armoy. Dorothy Parke: Wee Hughie. C.A.Prevost: Sweet and low. H.Proctor-Gregg: Brose and butter; Music when soft voices die; Wild bird (2 copies); Hee balou; The bonny moor-hen; Carol. Stanford Robinson (arr.): Three traditional songs. George Tait: Carol. Roy Teed: four Songs of Innocence; A Christmas Carol; Of course!
Archive: RNCM
Collection: Ena Mitchell Collection
Reference: EM/2
Title: MSS whose status is not yet identified
Level: Series
Extent: 64 items
Creator:
Dates: c.1940
Scope and content: These MSS are possibly copies, but should be checked in case they are autograph MSS. Most are undated. Songs for voice and piano. Music by: Alnaes: Sidste veis. Arnold Bell: Lullaby; With Rue My Heart Is Laden; song from Twelfth Night; song from The Stricken Meadow; Dreams; When I Was One-and-Twenty. W.Ashton: My Rosalea. Frederic Austin: Proud Maisie. Stanley Bate: A.E. Housman poems. Anne Collins: The Greatest Man. Denys Darlow: 23rd psalm [with strings]. John Denwood: Sing ho! for oor [sic] lads. T.Dowell: Little Mary Morgan. Jana Gould (arr.): The Keel Row; Bobby Shaftoe; Six Scots Songs; My Bonny Moorhen. Anne Hamerton: Entre Le Boeuf et L'Anegris; The Beautiful House; For a Birthday in Spring; The Wind and the Sea; In the Meadows of Mantua. Arthur H Hardisty: Some folk. Michael Head: Holiday in heaven. Maurice Jacobson (arr.): Ca' the Yowes. Vilhem Krag: Blonde Netter; Ringelreihen. Morag McLure: The willow song. L.Malashkin: Oh could I but express in song. Paul Marie: At Grendon Fair. William Metcalfe: Lal Dinah Grayson. H.Morgan: The Dark Wood. Lodewyk Mortelmans: May Day. Michael Mulliner (arr.): Venus to soothe my heart; Declare my pretty maid. P.R.N.: Winter/a widow bird (3 copies). Stewart Nash: Rich days (autumn). H.?Nils: As dew in April. Norman Peterkin: Song of the Watermaiden [for voice & string quartet]. Reginald Redman: Come, Sleep. Cyril B.Rootham: South Wind. Lionel Salter (arr.): The Cuckoo; Swinton May Song. John Prindle Scott: To an old love. Arthur Somervell: Go not, happy day; Loveliest of trees, the cherry now. C.V.Stanford: Songs of a roving Celt no.5. F.W. Wadeley (arr.): Canny Aul Cummerlan; In Praise of Music; Lullaby of the Madonna [for voice & string quartet]. Peter Warlock: Carol; Cradle Song; It was a lover and his lass; The bailey beareth the bell away; My own country; Take, o take those lips away; 2 short songs. Eric Warr (arr.): Blandt alle lande i ost og vest. William Wordsworth: 3 Wordsworth songs. Anon: Life is a song; Kirsteen.
Archive: RNCM
Collection: Ena Mitchell Collection
Reference: EM/3
Title: Miscellaneous
Level: Series
Extent: 1 folder + 1 bundle
Creator:
Dates: 1940s
Scope and content: Copies and parts of songs. Includes notes, sketches etc.