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Original ink score, dated 5 April 1964 and titled 'Opus 24: Christ Child: Carol for Unaccompanied Chorus'. Dedicated to Catrin and Ceri.

Facsimile copy of ink score for all instrument parts with pencil annotations, dated 25 October 1964 and titled 'Opus 20: Quintet for Piano and Strings'. The file also includes the score written as separate parts for violins 1 and 2, viola, and cello, in ink with pencil annotations. Commissioned for the Aberystwyth Arts Festival, 1964.

Original pencil draft of score, dated 25 October 1964 and titled 'Opus 20: Quintet for Piano and Strings'. Includes parts for violins 1 & 2, viola, cello, and piano. Commissioned for the Aberystwyth Arts Festival, 1964.

Facsimile copy of ink score with some pencil annotations, dated 10 May 1963-14 January 1964 and titled 'Opus 18: Violin Concerto'. The score includes parts for 2 flutes, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, timpani, percussion, solo violin, violins 1 & 2, violas, cellos, and basses. The work was used as a testpiece for the International Competition for Violinists, 1966.

Original ink scores with pencilled notes inside the cover and pencil annotations, containing two versions of Opus 17: ‘Variations for Clarinet and Piano’ (dated February-11 April 1963), and 'Variations for Viola (or Clarinet) and Piano’ (undated); and a draft score in pencil, titled ‘Opus 17: Variations for Clarinet & Piano’ (dated 11 April 1963). The manuscript also contains a typed programme for the 99th Weekly College Concert of the University College Wales Department of Music, session 1963-64, held on 11th November 1963. The programme includes David Harries’ 'Opus 17: Variations for Viola and Piano' (1963); and 'Opus 5: Sonatina for Piano' (1955).
Originally commissioned for the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music, 1963.

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.

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.

Draft score in ink and pencil, titled 'Opus 7: Epithalalium for Two Violins' and consisting of three parts: part 1, 'Fanfare and Wedding March' dated 1956; part 2, 'Hymn' dated 7 January 1961; and part 3, 'Dance' dated 11 January 1961. The manuscript also includes a typewritten biographical note (undated).

Full original ink score, dated 1993 and titled 'Opus 66: String Quartet No.3'. The score is made up of nine parts: part 1, 'Prologue'; part 2, 'Sonata'; part 3, 'Fugue 1'; part 4, 'Roundelay'; part 5, 'Fugue 2'; part 6, 'Scherzo'; part 7, 'Fugue 3'; part 8, 'Capriccio'; and part 9, 'Epilogue'. Commissioned for the 1993 Lower Machen Festival in association with the Welsh Arts Council, and dedicated to Julia Chapple, Royston Havard and the Lower Machen Festival.

Original ink score, titled 'Opus 66: String Quartet No.3' and consisting of four separate parts for violin 1, violin 2, viola, and cello. Commissioned for the 1993 Lower Machen Festival in association with the Welsh Arts Council.

Original ink score, dated 1993 and titled 'Opus 65: Gitanjali Song Offerings: Six Poems of Rabindranath Tagore for Soprano & Chamber Orchestra'. The score is in six parts: part 1, 'I am here to sing thee songs'; part 2, 'When thou commandest me to sing'; part 3, 'It is the pang of separation'; part 4, 'Is it beyond thee to be glad?'; part 5, 'I have received my invitation'; and part 6, 'In one salutation to thee'. Commissioned for the Llantilio Crossenny 31st Festival of Music and Drama in association with the Welsh Arts Council.
Dedicated to Rachel and Thomas.

Draft score in pencil, titled 'Opus 43: Piano Concerto No.1'. Included with the manuscript is a typed descriptive and biographical note relating to the works and career of David Harries (undated). Commissioned by the Llandaff Festival, 1977.

Original ink score, dated 23 May-8 June 1966, and titled 'Opus 23: A Little Cantata: Ten Traditional Rhymes for Children’s Voices and Piano'. The score consists of parts based on the rhymes 'Blow, Wind, Blow' (dated 23 May 1966); 'Wine and Cakes' (dated 24 May 1966); 'Peter' (dated 23 May 1966); 'Terence McDiddler' (dated 26 May 1966); 'Tommy Trot' (dated 26 May 1966); 'Three a-bed' (dated 5 June 1966); 'Pipe, Cat' (dated 5 June 1966); 'Grey Goose' (dated 8 June 1966); 'Barber' (dated 7 June 1966); and 'Four Winds' (dated 8 June 1966). Dedicated to Catrin and Ceri.

Original ink score with some annotations in pencil and biro, titled 'Opus 22: Clarinet Concerto'. For solo clarinet.

Original ink score, including separate score for violin part, titled 'Opus 21: Divertimento for Violin and Piano'. The score consists of four parts: part 1, 'Intrada' (dated 28 March 1965); part 2, 'Toccata' (dated 14 April 1965); part 3, 'Cantilena' (dated 15 April 1965); and part 4, 'Burlesca' (dated 11 April 1965). Dedicated to Leonard James.

Original ink score, dated March 1965 and titled 'Opus 19: Piano Sonata'. Originally commissioned for Bangor Arts Festival, 1965.

Original ink score, titled 'Opus 3: Incidental Music to Antigone', and based on Jean Anouilh's version of Sophocles' tragedy 'Antigone', translated from the French by Lewis Galantière. The work is in two parts: 'Overture', dated 28 October-6 November 1953; and 'Introduction to Act II', dated 6-10 November 1953. Commissioned by the University College of Wales Dramatics Society, for a production at Aberystwyth of Jean Anouilh’s ‘Antigone’, November 1953, and recorded at Aberystwyth on 13th November, 1953, performed by: A.B. Thomas & J. Cynan Jones (horns); Hugh Jones (bassoon); Delwyn Tibbott (trombone); Jayne Filer (timpani); Edward Bor (violin 1); Jeffrey Francis (violin 2); Raymond Jeremy (viola); John Clapham (cello); and William Mathias (piano).

Music manuscripts of the composer David Harries, 1953-1995, comprising of drafts, sketches and scores of compositions including chamber and instrumental music, orchestral music, choral and organ, and voice and piano arrangements.

Facsimile copy of ink score with pencil annotations, titled 'Culhwch and Olwen: An Entertainment', and including notes listing all instrument parts and performers; instructions for narrator, choral speech, chorus, percussion, and piano duet; and pronunciation of Welsh names. Composed by William Mathias and originally commissioned for the 1967 Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Bala.

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.