Mus. 1281

Manuscript. Richard Townley Woodman, autograph full orchestral score of New Forest Rhapsody (completed 28 October 1914). For a biographical note on Woodman, see the entry for Mus. 1273. The first page of the score bears the dedication 'to Adrian Boult'; Woodman and Boult were undergraduate contemporaries at Christ Church, and Boult conducted the first performances of this work in Liverpool and London; further details of these are given below. Mus. 1281 has been marked up for performance by Boult variously in graphite pencil and blue pencil; other changes made in red ink are more likely in Woodman's hand.

For notices of concert performances of this work, see The Musical Times for March 1915 (p. 173; Liverpool performances) and March 1918 (p. 119; Queen's Hall, London on 4 February 1918; Boult conducting the London Symphony Orchestra). For further information, see Michael Kennedy, Adrian Boult (London, 1987), pp. 60, 64 and 320. To judge from these sources, this composition was also known either as In the New Forest or simply as Rhapsody.

Upright format, 475 x 350 mm. Structure: i+30+i leaves; paginated by the composer in ink. Early 20th-century binding of red fabric over boards.

A set of orchestral parts for this work forms part of Mus. 1282.

Provenance: see the entry for Mus. 1273.

Not included in the standard microfilm edition.