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Burgess, Anthony. Third accrual.

Box 4:

"Preludes"
Autograph music manuscript
six short pieces:

I Modere
II Tres Modare
III vivo
IV Maestoso
V Molto Lento, ma Grazioso
VI Energetico

Includes passages of atonality and bitonality. Notated with a black felt-tip pen on six two-stave systems, the final page of the last piece cancelled and a single two-stave line added, perhaps intended to complete the work ("Fuga-harpsichord"). The addition and brief notations throughout the ms. have been written in blue ball-point pen.

Folio, 23 x 31 cm. Beige wrappers, inscribed on the front verso, "Preludes Anthony Burgess, Etchingham, 1964," back wrapper lacking bottom right corner section. 11 pp. of 16 pp. used, the central bifolium (pp.7-10) loose and separate.

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