Music scores, 1931-1988

Containers:

Folio-Box 13

Component identifier:

File Packet 5b

Content Summary:

Manuscript scores for the following pieces: 'A Little Scherzo for piano', nd; 'A River Idyll' for piano, revised notation, 1975 (original score, 1931); 'Autumn Stream' - duet, 1972; 'Birds in Sunlight', 1973; Brown Hill Creek in Spring, 1942; 'Captain Cook Sketch Book' - a suite of five pieces, 1988; 'Cathedral Ceremony' 1974; 'Concert Study No. 3 in C# Minor', 1935 (written while a student at the Royal College of Music); 'Ear Rings from Spain', 1970; 'Firewheel', 1932; 'Forest Stream', 1942 (awarded A.P.R.A prize, South Australia); 'Four Funny Frogs', 1969; 'Grey Foreshore', 1956 (dedicated to Florence and Lynda Simpson); 'Humoresque' - for piano, 1973; 'Ivy Leaves' - for piano, 1969; and 'Lamp with a Fringe' - for piano, 1969.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was donated to the Library by Miriam Hyde in a number of instalments from 1976 to 1996. A further instalment was donated to the Library by Hyde's daughter Christine Edwards in 2021.

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