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Kaleidoscope no.9a for piano

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JO/042
Title
Kaleidoscope no.9a for piano
Date
1969-1989
Description

Listed on cover: 1 Fantastia Busoniana; 2 4 Episodes; 3 Ballade; 4 Sonata no.14; 5 Sonata no.15; 6 Sonata no.16; 7 Sonata no.17; 8a 100 Short Preludes; 8b [no title]; 8c [no title]. ff.1-6 'Fantasia Busoniana' dated May 18 1989. Signed & dated at end Jun 10 1988. Movements include: Lento; 3 Habanera; 4 Toccata. ff.6v-7 'Four episodes': 1 Lagrimoso (sic); 2 Ländler. Dated 1988. No.s 3 and 4 missing. ff.13-22 '100 Short Preludes & Ballade for piano solo' title page. Signed and dated 1984-1985. Short Preludes not included. Ballade signed & dated 1969 - complete. ff.23-30 'A Second Kaleidoscope. Sonatas 14, 15 & 16'. ff.23-24 Sonata no.14 'Fantasy Sonata on Keith Roman Cole's 'Ulysses''. Movements: 1 All Troy is Fallen; 2 Intermezzo The Lotus Eaters; 3 Scherzo; 4 Finale. Dated March 1985. ff.25-26r Sonata no.15. Movements: 1 'In Scarlatti technique (with apologies to Bernhard Heiden)'; 2 'For Raymond Murray, with every good wish'; 4 Finale. With renumbering and another sonata no.15 interposed. Dated Easter 1985. ff.26v-30 Sonata no.16 'Character-skizzes based on Miles Formari's Film of Amadeus'. Movements: 1 Salieri; 2 Constanze Mozart; 3 Leopold Mozart; 4 Archbishop Hieronymus ?Colloredi; 5 The King of Austria; 6 Salieri's interlocut; 7 The mysterious 'commissioner' of the Requiem; 8 Beethoven improvising to Mozart; 9 Haydn's testament about Mozart; 11 Mozart as played by Mr Tom Hulce; 10 Mozart's Apotheosis. ff.35-39 '25 Preludes for solo piano - based on the 24 preludes of Hummel. Dedicated with love and friendship and gratitude to Alastair [Londonderry]'. Titled preludes are: 9 'Landscape'; 10 'Homage to Clementi'; 11 'A religious processional'; 4 'An English folk-song'; 17 'Homage to Busoni'; 18 'Homage to J.S. Bach'; 12 'Homage to Sibelius'; 13 'Dawn'; 14 'Elegy' 'Childhood Memories'; 20 'Melisma'; 21 'Pastourelle'; 22 'Variant'; 23 'Norvège'; 24 'Jong'. Revised April 1985.

Skye Atman catalogue no.s 042.1 - Fantasia Busoniana 042.2 - Four Episodes 042.3 - Ballade 042.4 - Sonata no.14 Fantasy sonata on Keith Cole's Ulysses 042.5 - Sonata no.15 In Scarlatti technique 042.6 - Sonata no.16 Character skizzen... 042.7 - Sonata no.17 'Film Music' 042.8b - Twenty-five preludes for Alastair Londonderry

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Royal Northern College of Music
Language
English
Physical description
42 ff.
Physical condition
18 stave MS paper: 36 x 26.5 cm. 24 stave MS paper: 36 by 27cm. Written in black and blue ink, black fibre tip, and blue and black biro. ff.8-12, 31-34, 40-42 blank.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/972e4ae3-fd46-4222-b2d9-ed5c9e5ac609/

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