Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/1
Title: Prelude, Minuet and Reel for piano
Level: File
Extent: 3 items
Creator:
Dates: c1931
Scope and content: Consists of: (a) published version, published by Oxford University Press in 1932; (b) photocopy of the score; (c) additional photocopy of the score (edited for publication by Pennine Music Publishing). Each copy contains cover design by the composer. See AG/1 for another copy of the OUP edition.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/2
Title: Concertino for Percussion and Full Orchestra
Level: File
Extent: 3 items
Creator:
Dates: 1961-1962
Scope and content: Consists of: (a) autograph manuscript of the full score (completed on Good Friday, 1961); (b) 'study' score, arranged by the composer, arranged for solo percussion and piano (published by Oxford University Press in 1962); (c) photocopy of (b).

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/3
Title: Into The Ark, a Recitation for Speaker, with piano accompaniment, with standard English and dialect words
Level: File
Extent: 1 item
Creator:
Dates: c1965
Scope and content: Photocopy of the words and music, together with a Lancashire dialect version. There is also a letter, dated 3 Jan 1990, to Mr Dyson re publication details for the work.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/4
Title: Rhythm Cycle for Guitar Duo (four studies in irregular and cross rhythms)
Level: File
Extent: 2 items
Creator:
Dates: 1983
Scope and content: (a) MS score, heavily edited, together with (b) a photocopy of the score. The piece was commissioned by the Albion Duo, with funds provided by West Midlands Arts. See also TP/2/6/19

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/5
Title: Sonata for 5 Unaccompanied Timpani
Level: File
Extent: 2 items
Creator:
Dates: 1985
Scope and content: (a) MS of the score, with many sections of the music glued on to paper to form the complete work. The work is in two movements: the first features 8 variations on a three note tune by Rosseau; the second is entitled 'Sonor Evening Townscape'. (b) photocopy of the work

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/6
Title: Monstrous Monsters: 8 Unison Songs
Level: File
Extent: 2 items
Creator:
Dates: undated
Scope and content: (a) consists of a mixture of original and photocopied MS of the music and the drawings of the monsters; (b) is a photocopy of the entire work, together with copies of drawings of the monsters. See also TP/2/13/6.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/7
Title: 'Motley Suite' for 5 percussion players
Level: File
Extent: 2 items
Creator:
Dates: undated
Scope and content: Autograph MS score (annotated and edited) and bound photocopied score.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/8
Title: 'Words Without Songs'
Level: File
Extent: 1 item
Creator:
Dates: 1951
Scope and content: Pitfield has dedicated this item to Lucy Pierce. The introduction to the volume is by Walter de la Mare.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/9
Title: Letters from Pitfield to Mr Lewis Dyson
Level: File
Extent: 5 items
Creator:
Dates: 1985-1987
Scope and content: Letters and one cover for a piece of music ('Concertino for Percussion and Full Orchestra') from Tom Pitfield to Mr Lewis Dyson - all concern contracts and publication details.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/10
Title: Correspondence re exhibition of works by Thomas Pitfield
Level: File
Extent: 13 items
Creator:
Dates: 1994-1998
Scope and content: Correspondence related to both 90th and 95th birthday celebrations. Includes a volume of Pitfield's second volume of autobiography, 'A Song After Supper'.

Archive: RNCM
Collection: Thomas Pitfield: Additional scores and some correspondence
Reference: TP-Add/11
Title: 'Concertino for Percussion and Full Orchestra'
Level: File
Extent: 56 items
Creator:
Dates: 1962
Scope and content: Parts and piano arrangement of orchestral part; 56 parts in all. The parts are marked as follows: 2 copies of the solo part with piano arrangement of the orchestral part (both marked as 'study score' by Pitfield, one copy is marked 'Percussion part I on the front); Percussion Part II; Flute 1; Flutes 2 and Piccolo; Clarinets 1; Clarinets 2; Oboes 1; Oboes 2; Bassoons 1; Bassoons 2; Horns 1; Horns 2; Horns 3; Horns 4; Trumpets 1; Trumpets 2; Tenor 1; Tenor 2; Bass Trombone; 1st Violin (9 copies); 2nd Violin (9 copies); Viola (6 copies); Cello (6 copies); Bass (6 copies)