Manuscript scores of music for one woodwind instrument and piano, 1936-1994

Containers:

Folio-Box 21

Component identifier:

File 96

Content Summary:

On the Hillside (1936. Arr. for flute and piano from On the hillside, in Forest echoes, for piano. n.d. [Copy in the Univ. of Adelaide library MSS 0036 is dated 1963.]); Dryad's dance (1936. Originally for violin and piano. Arr. for flute and piano 1957); Sonata in F minor for clarinet and piano (1949. 2 vols. with correspondence. Clarinet part in separate ms. book); Tempo di minuetto (1949. Second movement of the Sonata in F minor for clarinet and piano, but with clarinet part adapted for oboe. n.d. Also copy 1983 of the full score for oboe and piano); Rhapsody for clarinet and piano (1950. With rough working for Canon 1955); Canon and Rhapsody for clarinet and piano (1955 and 1950. Rev. copy 1980. The works are thematically related, and may be played as a pair (in this sequence or independently); Nightfall and Merrymaking (1955. Oboe and piano. Two pieces to be played together. With rough working, pencil, in separate ms. book); Scherzetto (1957. Saxophone in E flat and piano. With correspondence); Sonata for flute and piano (1962. Also with title: Sonata in G minor. With correspondence. Rough working in pencil in two other ms. books (with rough workings for songs: The land where the bell birds call, 1961, and, Bridal song, 1962; and opening of piano solo, Drought-Stricken Grasses, 1964); Three short oboe solos (1963. Oboe and piano); The quiet meadow (arr. from the piano piece in Forest echoes, 1936); The jolly farmer (arr. from the piano piece in Forest echoes, 1936); Cradle song (n.d.); Festival March (1965. Euphonium in B flat and piano); Fireside images (1965. Flute and piano); Tangled rope (1993. Solo clarinet in B flat); Nocturne (1994. Flute and piano).

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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