Manuscript scores of piano music for one hand, or, one hand plus a limited second hand, 1945-1992

Containers:

Folio-Box 18

Component identifier:

File 88

Content Summary:

Intermezzo for left hand solo (1945); Susan Bray's Album (1945. 10 pieces); My first schoolday : 10 very elementary pieces for the left hand (circa 1945-1946. 10 pieces); 'Poem,' for right hand solo (1973); Pieces for Ruth Mason (Laughing song and Study in A minor. (1974), both with rough working)); Seven pieces for Warren Roy (Study in A minor, Jig, A Sunday idyll, Blackbird's song, A little occata, Last waltz, Questions and Riverside Song. 1974); Rhapsodic study for left hand (1976); Concert waltz for left hand (1977); Polyphonic exercises for left hand (1979. 4 pieces); Song of the spinning wheel (1981); 7 pieces for Malcolm Southwall, for L.H. only (1981); Four little preludes, for left hand (1982); Left hand study (for Melody Yeomans) (1985); Melody (1985); Spring morning (1987); Wandering stream (1990); Three little pieces for Luke [Vipond] in folder with 8 more waltz pieces for Luke (1991. Includes letters from Luke Vipond and his teacher Doreen Nayman); Pieces for Clara (1992. 4 pieces) in folder with with Four more pieces for Clara (1992).

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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