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David Harries Music Manuscripts
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Opus 10: Canticle for Tenor & Strings

Original ink score with pencil annotations, titled 'Canticle for Tenor and Strings' and arranged into parts for violins 1 and 2, viola, cello, and double bass. The score includes three parts based on Harries' work 'Words by 20th-century Anglo-Welsh Poets': Part 3, 'Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed' by Dylan Thomas, dated 24 July 1957; Part 6, 'In the Grass Gold Rings' by Roland Mathias, dated 10 May 1957; and Part 7, 'There is No Time' by Raymond Garlick, dated 24 January 1961. Parts 1, 2, 4 and 5 are wanting.

Opus 10b: Three Ricercari for String Quartet (facsimile)

Facsimile copy of ink score, dated 24th July 1957, titled Opus 10b: 'Three Ricercari for String Quartet', including 'Ricercare 1' (dated 12th January 1957); 'Ricercare 2' (dated 10th May 1957); and 'Ricercare 3' (dated 24th July 1957). The score incorporates parts for violins 1 and 2, viola, and violoncello.

Opus 11: Prolegomena: Variations for String Orchestra

Original ink score, dated December 1958-3 September 1959’ and titled 'Opus 11: Prolegomena: Variations for String Orchestra'. The score includes parts for violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello, and bass; and separate scores for the parts of violin 1, violin 2, and viola.
Dedicated to Eileen.

Opus 1: Revised as Nocturne and Scherzo for Orchestra

Ink score with pencil annotations, of a 1959 revision of the work titled Opus 1: ‘Nocturne and Scherzo for Orchestra’, including parts for clarinet, violins 1 and 2, viola, violoncello, oboe, bassoon, timpani, flute, trumpet, and horns 1 and 2. The piece was first written in 1952 as 'Introduction (Quasi Notturno) and Allegro Scherzoso' for string quintet, based on the Welsh folk-melodies 'Hun Gwenllian' and 'Hela'r 'Sgyfarnog'. The original piece was awarded a prize in the composition section at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Aberystwyth (1952), and was first performed at University College Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1953.

Toccata alla Danza for Piano

Facsimile copy of ink score with some annotations in blue biro ink, dated December 1961 and titled 'Toccata alla Danza for Piano'. Composed by William Mathias and originally commissioned by the Welsh Committee of the Arts Council.

Opus 15: Clarinet Quintet (draft)

Draft score in ink and pencil, dated 3rd January-19th May 1962, titled Opus 15: 'Clarinet Quintet' and for performance at the Cheltenham Festival, 1962. The score also includes a typed programme note for the Cheltenham Festival brochure, 1962, signed by David Harries.

Opus 15: Clarinet Quintet

Ink score, dated 3rd January-19th May 1962, titled Opus 15: 'Clarinet Quintet'. Commissioned by the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music for the Cheltenham Festival, 1962.

Opus 18: Violin Concerto No. 1

Draft score in pencil, dated 27th August 1963, and titled Opus 18: 'Violin Concerto No. 1'. For violin solo and orchestra. The work was used as a testpiece for the International Competiton for Violinists, 1966.

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