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"What care I" (with apologies to John Dowland) for voice and keyboard in A minor. Lyrics by George Wither (1588-1667). Metronome marking: 84 beats per minute.

"Welcome Yule". Words: 15th Century. For voices and organ. in G major.

"Wedding Responses" for voices in B flat major. On the reverse of the page there is a draft in pencil (of other wedding responses?).

Typewritten paper titled: "We haven't the time to take our time (Eugene Ionesco - from Exit the King)" commenting Hurford's touring experience.

"Wassail Song" (Oxford Carol Book 15), arranged by Peter Hurford. For two voices and piano or organ.

Descant arrangement. Key: B flat major

Voluntary in trio for organ. Registration: I Great (Flutes 8, 2). II Choir: Flutes 8, 2, Sesquialtera. III Swell: Principal 8. Pedal: Flutes 16, 8. (No key). First part: adagio (60 beats per minute). Second part: quasi allegro (80 beats per minute).

"Victorian Love Song". Anonymous, arranged by Peter Hurford. Song for two voices in C major.

Variations on the carol "Tempus adest floridum" for organ pedal solo in A major. Metronome marking: 96 beats per minute.
Two copies with minor variants: manuscript (in pencil) and photocopy with pencil annotations.

Variations on "Tempus adest floridum". In A major (metronome marking: ca. 96 beats per minute) (pages 14-15).
Piece included in the book: "Pedals only : 13 Studien zeitgenossischer Komponisten =​ Pedals only : 13 studies by contemporary composers". Published by Universal Edition, Vienna.

Contents:

• Helmut Bornefeld: Holzschuh-Polka
• Bengt Hambraeus: Pedalexercitium pro organo
• Thomas Daniel Schlee: Etüde für Orgelpedal solo
• Pierre Cogen: Psalmodie
• Martin Haselböck: Stampede
• Peter Hurford: Variations on "Tempus adest floridum"
• Xavier Darasse: Pedal-Exercitium
• Jean Guillou: Impromptu
• Gerd Zacher: "Wenn der Fuß spräche: ich bin keine Hand..." (Pedalskizze)
• Joseph Rreveyron: Fantaisie-Choral sur l'hymne de Saint Jean
• Theo Brandmüller: "...und die Sonne ist verschwunden..." (Drei Nachtmärsche für Pedal solo)
• Oskar Gottlieb Blarr: Roncalli-Nashorn "Else"
• Lionel Rogg: Contrepointes. Etude pour le pédalier

Handwritten notes in pencil.

Speech for a gathering regarding an organ restoration and preservation of the church in Stansfield [?].

Typewritten and handwritten notes on the organ.

Handwritten draft on English singing music.

Typewritten draft of a talk on English Church Music.

Typewritten copy of untitled paper about Bach.
2 pages.

"Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart..." [Nunc Dimittis]. For voices and organ.

Letters from the Dean of St Albans Secretary and The Fraternity of the Friends of Saint Albans Abbey. Typewritten copy by Peter Hurford on his time at the Cathedral and about some building arrangements that should be done.

Handwritten notes on singing and playing Bach's organ works.

Typewritten copy of some notes on [notes on performance of Bach's concertos.
Some pages are handwritten by Peter Hurford, others are photocopies of handwritten notes by someone else, and other pages are typewritten notes by Peter Hurford.

Typewritten copy of some notes on interpretation.
1 page.

Typewritten and handwritten notes on instruments and organ playing.

"My help cometh from the Lord" and two other sketches for voice and organ.

"My soul doth magnify the Lord..." [Magnificat] for voice and organ [?]. Incomplete [the last bars of the piece are missing].

Agnus Dei for three voices written in treble, alto and bass clefs. Two short sketches on the reverse page. Sketch 2 with lyrics in German: two staves in bass clef. Sketch 3: four voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass).

Handwritten draft on a lecture on the interpretation of Bach.

Typewritten paper on a critique about organist Carlo Curley.
It contains three newspaper articles on Carlo Curley.

Piece for voice and keyboard [?]. Arrangement by Peter Hurford. Key: B flat major.

Sketch of a piece for keyboard [?].

Piece for the organ in D minor.

Draft in pencil of a work for organ (9 pages).

"They reap not where they laboured..." [incipit] for voices and organ in E major.

Song for tenor and piano or organ. Lyrics: poem by A. E. Housman (1859–1936), taken from "A Shropshire Lad" (1896) "With rue my heart is laden". Key: G major.
On the reverse there is a draft of a song for voice and keyboard in ink containing lyrics, and at the end five bars written in pencil with a comment that reads: Dowland "I saw my lady weep" "English Ayres" (although the bars do not seem to be related with Dowland's piece).

"Holy spirit, make us strong..." for voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) in B flat minor.

Draft of what it appears to be three different pieces: "Full knee deep lies..." [Tennyson] for soprano, alto, tenor and bass (incomplete) in E flat major, metronome marking: 100 beats per minute; A piece for string quartet (violin I, violin II, viola and violoncello) in D minor; another work for string quartet in which, at the top left of the page it reads: "Last 11 bars of a fugue, introducing stretto on pedal points" in A minor; and a fragment of a full orchestral score in C minor [all the pieces might relate to the same work (?) or at least the vocal part with the orchestral (?)].

Sketch of a piece for keyboard [?].

Booklet containing several sketches. Some of them are transcriptions of J. S. Bach.

Organ sketch in F major that ends at the end of the reverse page, which also includes a choral sketch in G major.

Work for voices and organ. Words by John Milton: [Hymn] "Let us with a gladsome mind". Key: E flat major. Metronome marking: minim=72.

Hymn for voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and organ. "Our Father, by whose servants...". Key: E major.

Piece for keyboard in D minor.

"Et lux perpetua..." for three voices (alto, tenor and bass [?]).
On the reverse page there is a short sketch in pencil.

"God disclose, Gold a royal child proclaimeth..." for voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and organ in B flat minor.

Drafts of two works. One for piano [?] in G major, and the other one a song "O saw ye Bonie Lesley..." [poem by Robert Burns] for tenor and keyboard in F major.

Choral sketches.

Two songs set to Anonymous 16th Century Words for voice and keyboard. 1. "Balow" in B minor (metronome marking: 104 beats per minute). 2. "The Knight of the Grail" in C major (metronome marking: dotted crotchet = 80).

Two Sentences from an Order for Holy Communion Series 3 for SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) with divisions and Organ. I: "Truly the Lord is in this place", in G major. II: "Through Christ Jesus", in G major (metronome marking: minim = 64).
Published by Novello & Company Limited.

"Two Dialogues" for Organ. No. 1 (metronome marking: 84 beats per minute) and 2 (metronome marking: minim = 76) in G major, written in ink. Dialogue 1 (in pencil, different from Dialogue 1 in ink) and Dialogue 2 (in pencil, the same as Dialogue 2 in ink).

Two Dialogues. For Organ. (in G).
I (metronome marking: 84 beats per minute). II (metronome marking: minim = 76).
Published by Novello & Company Limited. In the series: Novello's Organ Music Club (NOMC) No. 32.

"Two Carols for Equal Voices". I: Blake's cradle song. For female voices and keyboard in Bb flat major (metronome marking: 66 beats per minute). II: Come, love we God! For solo or semi-chorus. Words from Shann MS (16th century). In F major (metronome marking: 120 beats per minute).
Published by Basil Ramsey, publisher of music.