Manuscript scores for unison voice and piano, 1933-1995

Containers:

Folio-Box 19

Component identifier:

File 90a-b

Content Summary:

Songs for soprano voice (unless indicated otherwise): Dreamland (1933. Lyrics Christina Rosetti. Orchestrated); My sorrow stirs (1935. Lyrics Hilda Hammond-Spencer. Contralto voice); Three songs: A bridal song (No date. Lyrics by Shelley), Laughter (1937. Lyrics Hilda Hammond-Spencer; with new copy made 1991) and My sorrow stirs (1935. Lyrics Hilda Hammond-Spencer. Contralto voice. Accompanied by letter from Frida Hadley, Surrey); The wind in the sedges (1937. Lyrics Hilda Hammond-Spencer); Tremayne song (1937. Lyrics Miriam Hyde. Not published. Includes correspondence from Dr Monica Bullen to Miriam Hyde, Christine Edwards to Hannah Aiktens, typescript of review from 1937 and lyrics as text); The lotus pool (1939. Lyrics Helen Waddell from the original Chinese. Mezzo-soprano voice. Accompanied by photocopy extract from letter written by Miriam Hyde to Marcus Edwards, 1939); Music (1942. Lyrics Walter de la Mare); Flotsam (1942. Lyrics Walter de la Mare. Baritone voice); My sorrow stirs (1935. Lyrics by Hilda Hammond-Spencer) in manuscript book with The apple tree (1942. Lyrics Patricia Hackett. Mezzo-soprano voice. First published by Chappell 1944); Gypsy song (1942. Lyrics Patricia Hackett. Baritone voice); Drafts of three untitled songs entered in the Australian National Song Competition, 1943, under the pseudonym 'Aurelius' and labelled E3, E4, E5; Rough copies of national songs (containing Australia, land of liberty, 1943); Australia, land of liberty (1943); Rhyme after rain (1943. Lyrics John Galsworthy. Mezzo-soprano voice); Before the spring (1943); Lullaby (1943. Lyrics Christina Rosetti. Contralto voice); The cedar tree (1944. Lyrics Viva Counsell. Mezzo-soprano voice. Orchestrated. Includes correspondence from publisher, Wiirripang); Three songs (At Beauty's altar, Take thou this rose; Fire in my heart. 1944. Medieval Latin lyrics, translated by Helen Waddell. Tenor voice); September camphor-laurels (1945. Mezzo-soprano voice); The constant pool (1946. Lyrics Viva Counsell. Accompanied by notes); In the rose garden (1946, 1984 copy. Lyrics Marjorie Kenna); Leaves in the wind, op. 78 (1947); Laughter (1937) in manuscript book with The first boronia (1948); Gay comes the singer (1948. Medieval Latin lyric, translated by Helen Waddell); Thoughts at dusk (1950. Mezzo-soprano voice. Orchestrated. First published by Chappell 1957); Anzac threnody (1951. Lyrics Dorothea Dowling. Mezzo-soprano voice. Accompanied by letter to Miriam Hyde form Mary Roseby, 1952); Dawn service (1952. Lyrics Mary Bertram. Contralto voice); Welcome song for the Queen (1954. Lyrics K. Murray. Not for publication); Sunrise by the sea (1954. Fist published by Nicholson's. Includes pencil workings of the opening of Rhapsody No. 2 (1954)); Winter willow music (1954.Firs published by Boosey and Hawkes 1955. Orchestrated); A song to a Queen (1954. Lyrics Joyce Trickett. Not published); The Illawarra flame (1954. Lyrics Patricia Francis. Includes version for mezzo-soprano voice, chorus version in separate sequence); Sea fantasy (1954. Music written under pseudonym 'Anne Chauvee.' Lyrics W. Allder Morrison. Tenor voice); Nightfall by the River (1955. Lyrics W. Allder Morrison. Mezzo-soprano voice. With rough working); Nightfall by the River (1955. Lyrics W. Allder Morrison. Mezzo-soprano voice. Copy: Australasian Performing Right Association); The river and the hill (1956. Lyrics Henry Kendall. Contralto voice); Song of the cattle hunters (1956. Lyrics Henry Kendall. Tenor voice); A song of autumn (1956. Lyrics Adam Lindsay Gordon. Mezzo-soprano or contralto voice with optional clarinet obbligato); Twilight beach (1956. Lyrics Dorothea Dowling); When our wattle-tree blooms (1956); Elfin fantasy (1958. Coloratura soprano voice); The land where the bell birds call (1961. Lyrics Samuel Simons. Mezzo-soprano voice. Not for publication); Bridal song (1962. Lyrics Valerie Barton); Megalong Valley (1966. Contralto voice); Surf-sound of Sydney (1968. Lyrics by Mavis or Dorothea Dowling. Mezzo-soprano voice. Not for publication); My paradise is Sydney (1968. Music written under pseudonym 'Oswestry.' Lyrics Dorothea Dowling. Mezzo-soprano voice. Not for publication); Festival flowers (1968. Lyrics Valerie Barton. Mezzo-soprano voice); Camellia (1970); Prayer for rain (1970); Late June (1970. Lyrics Valerie Barton. Mezzo-soprano voice); Yorkshire picture (1982); Walk in the light (1985. Lyrics Anne Cork. Mezzo-soprano voice. Not published. Accompanied by letter from Miriam Hyde to Dr Alice Whitley); Green years (1987. Mezzo-soprano voice. Not published. Accompanied by correspondence); Tone Poems of the sea : song cycle (1995).

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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