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Piano score, 1953, of Blood Wedding (opus 23), a ballet in five scenes by Denis ApIvor, based on the play Bodas de Sangre by Federico Garc©Ưa Lorca.

Pencil draft, 1971-1974, of the vocal score of 'Bouvard et Pécuchet' (opus 49), an opera in a prologue and three acts by Denis ApIvor, to a libretto by the composer, based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert.

Full score transparencies, 1961, of 'Cantata' (opus 32) by Denis ApIvor, being a setting for four solo voices, chorus, speaker, and orchestra of the ten 'Altarwise by owl-light' sonnets by Dylan Thomas; and vocal score, 1961, of the same work in a photographic reproduction from transparency. Autograph additions to the vocal score include corrections made in 1985 and a note on performance on back flyleaf.

Scores of two choral works by Denis ApIvor: Te Deum (opus 20) for unison voices with organ accompaniment, 1951, and Majestatas [sic] Dei Ultra Stellas (opus 82), a setting of Psalm 8 for voices with piano accompaniment, 1986.

Scores of works by Denis ApIvor: Triple Concerto for String Trio and String Orchestra (opus 43), 1967 (ff. 1-31); Second String Quartet (opus 63) in three movements, 1975 (ff. 32-65); and Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (opus 64) in three movements, in a reduction for two pianos, 1976-1977 (ff. 66-112 verso).

Music manuscripts, 1935-1995, of Denis ApIvor, including those of his operas She Stoops To Conquer, Yerma, Ubu Roi and Bouvard et Pécuchet, as well as solo and choral works (including The Hollow Men), songs, concertos, chamber music, etc.

Full score transparencies, 1973, of 'Fern Hill' (opus 56) by Denis ApIvor, being a setting for solo tenor voice and chamber orchestra of the poem by Dylan Thomas; and a study score, 1973, on transparency of the same work for solo tenor voice and two pianos.

Score, 1949, of the original version of 'Here We Go Round' (opus 11) by Denis ApIvor, being settings of six children's songs for voice with piano accompaniment, together with a note on the work (f. i) and typescript copies of the words of the songs pasted or tipped in (f. i verso, pp. 1, 7).

Vocal score, 1950, of 'Landscapes' (opus 15) by Denis ApIvor, being settings of five poems by T. S. Eliot for high voice (tenor) and six instruments, in a reduction for voice with piano accompaniment, together with a note on its first peformance in 1953 (inside front cover).

Photographic reproduction, 1983, of the autograph score of the original 'collected' version of the song-cycle 'Love's Season' (opus 76) by Denis ApIvor, being a setting for high voice and piano of fourteen poems by Ernest Dowson, with textual corrections in the composer's hand made in 1987.

Score, 1972, of Resonance of the Southern Flora (opus 54), a poem for wordless chorus and orchestra by Denis ApIvor, the fourth in a series of pieces based on the ideas, titles and atmospheres of works by Paul Klee.

Vocal score ('Ink copy ..., approx 1952') of 'She Stoops To Conquer' (opus 12), an opera in three acts by Denis ApIvor, composed 1943-1947 to a libretto by the composer, based on the play by Oliver Goldsmith.

Pencil scores, 1992, of two sonatinas by Denis ApIvor: 'Sonatina in E flat for saxophone and pianoforte' (opus 89) based on the medieval mystical poem 'Quia amore langueo', and 'Sonatina for viola and pianoforte' (opus 90) in three movements on 'Fair love let us go play' from the same poem.

Scores of songs, 1949-1987, by Denis ApIvor comprising Chaucer Songs (opus 1), four songs for baritone voice and string quartet, a piano reduction (ff. 1-9 verso); Seis Canciones de Federico Garc¡a Lorca (opus 8), for high voice, revised version (together with notes on the work; ff. 11-29 verso); Here We Go Round (opus 11), children's songs (ff. 32-40); Fern Hill (opus 56b), setting for high voice (tenor) and instruments of the poem by Dylan Thomas (ff. 42-57 verso); Popular Songs, fourteen solo songs, unaccompanied version (opus 58a), and accompanied version for piano (opus 58b) (ff. 59-113); Bats (opus 68), solo song for tenor or high voice and instruments, words of a poem by George Macbeth (ff. 115-22); Trodden Leaves (opus 83), song for high voice with piano accompaniment, words of a poem by Suzan Rapoport (ff. 123-6 verso).

Scores of songs, 1935-75, by Denis ApIvor comprising 'Brown is my love', 'In a glorious garden Grene', 'Cakes and Ale', 'Ah, my heart, what aileth thee', 'As the holly groweth green', 'Be Merry', 'Flos Lunae', 'Venetian Boat Song', 'Ah me, when shall I marry me?', 'When lovely woman stoops to folly', and 'To a Greek Marble', 'from 'Alas Parting' (opus 2), five songs for high voice and string quartet, in a reduction for piano, 'Songs for voice and pianoforte' (opus 3), 'Songs for voice and pianoforte' (opus 6), and the opera 'She Stoops to Conquer' (opus 12) (ff. 1-23); 'The Pretty Ploughboy', 'Hollin, Green Hollin', 'Maw bonnie Lad', 'Of everykune Tree', 'False Luve', 'Johnie cam to our toun', 'This ean night (The Lyke Wake Dirge)', 'Birmingham Jail', and 'Cider through a straw', from 'Vox Populi' (opus 58), fourteen solo songs in the version with piano accompaniment (ff. 24-44).

Scores of songs by Denis ApIvor comprising 'Elegiac Sonnets' (opus 94), being settings for four solo voices of four sonnets by Hilaire Belloc, 1993, and 'T. S. Eliot Songs' (opus 95), being settings for solo voice and piano accompaniment of five poems by T. S. Eliot, 1994-5, with typescript copies of the words of the songs pasted or tipped in.

Full orchestral score, 1990-1, of Symphony No. 5 (opus 87) by Denis ApIvor.

Score, 1951, of 'The Goodman of Paris' (opus 18) by Denis ApIvor, a ballet in one act, based on the medieval French text 'Le Ménagier de Paris', in a reduction for two pianos, together with notes on the work (inside front and back covers).

Full score, 1949, of the revised version of The Hollow Men (opus 5), composed by Denis ApIvor in 1939, for baritone solo, male voice chorus and orchestra, words of the poem by T. S. Eliot.

Vocal score, 1965, of 'Ubu Roi' (opus 40), an opera in three acts by Denis ApIvor, to a libretto by the composer, based on the play by Alfred Jarry.