sources Manuscripts Autograph Score Prologue Written in black ink on 24-stave paper, stamped ‘A.L. / No. 18’, measuring 35 × 25.5 cm. Numbered 1–21 by the composer. Holograph full score Add. MS 50410A–D, British Library, London Bound in light buff rexine. Autographs of acts II–IV oddly marked ‘Rough copy’ by RVW. Act I Written in black ink on 24-stave paper, stamped ‘A.L. / No. 18’, measuring 35 × 25.5 cm, with the printer’s mark of a galleon within a circle. Numbered 1–179 by the composer, but folios numbered i + III by the British Museum in 1967. Many additions in pencil, including timpani tunings, and red crayon, by RVW. Also featured are a number of collettes including several whole pages. Act II Same paper, ink, and binding. Numbered 1–132 by the composer (i + 70 BM). Rehearsal numbers in pencil. Composer’s corrections in pencil and red ink. Lacks the autograph of the ladies’ trio ‘Sigh no more ladies’; instead a pencilled note by RVW ‘go to loose sheets’. Fewer collettes and changes. Act III Same paper, ink, and binding. Numbered 1–117 by the composer (ii + 62 BM). Rehearsal numbers added in red ink. Composer’s corrections in pencil. Certain text additions in black ink in another hand. Fewer collettes and changes. Act IV Same paper, ink, and binding. Numbered 1–204 by the composer (i + 123 BM). Rehearsal numbers added in red ink. Composer’s corrections in pencil and red ink. Text and stage directions added in black ink by another hand. Pages 111–121 crossed out in blue crayon and six new pages added thereafter. From figs 35 to 36, much rewriting. Numerous deletions and corrections and several whole-page collettes by RVW. Autographs of Prologue, Episode, and Interlude Add. MS 50409B, British Library, London Folios numbered 1–59 by British Museum. Episode (Interlude I) Written in black ink on the same paper as above and also on ‘B & H Nr. 13’ (22 staves). Numbered 22–28 by the composer. At the end, ‘Segue Figure 34’. Interlude (Interlude II) Written in black in on 24-stave paper, stamped ‘PARCHMENT BRAND No. 19 – 24 lines, Belwin Inc. New York, U.S.A.’ (24 staves). Numbered 29–59 by the composer. Discarded pages of full score, partly autograph Add. MS. 69454, British Library, London A gathering of all the original pages of OUP copyist’s full score, from all four acts, that were later recopied by Roy Douglas. Many of them are in the hand of a copyist but with additions by RVW. This includes ‘Sigh no more ladies’ from Act II and the opening of Act III. Most of the pages have Malcolm Sargent’s blue crayon markings. Add. MS 69455, British Library, London Assorted pages including the big 12/8 orchestral interlude in act III and the cut end of Interlude 2. Add. MS 69456, British Library, London Copyist’s neat full score of the Prologue in black ink. Fortyone numbered pages. Copy of two-piano arrangement of seven episodes from Fat King Perusal Score Not for Performance Add. MS 57284, British Library, London Part for the Host Library of the Royal College of Music, London, No. 4964 Loosely bound in dark brown paper wrappers. Written in black ink by RVW on eight pages of 12-stave paper, but each page crossed out in blue crayon. Vocal line only. Thereafter, the vocal line with a two-stave piano accompaniment. Two pages of act IV written in black ink by a copyist, followed by ‘THE FAT KNIGHT’ / Act I / R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS’, done by a different copyist. 8 pp. viii
Act II written by the first copyist. 4 pp. Followed by ‘The Fat Knight / R. Vaughan Williams / Act III’. 13 pp. stage directions) by RVW, including a large collette for ‘Sigh no more ladies’. Typed libretto Add. MS. 50409A, British Library, London Pages numbered i + 1–115 by the British Museum, London Foolscap paper pp. 1–105. Title page: The Fat Knight [altered throughout to ‘Sir John in Love’ by RVW] A Comedy Opera / founded on Shakespeare’s / ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’ / with Music by / R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS p. 2 Preface pp. 5–7 Cast list and act divisions Act I (40 minutes – deleted) Act II (20 minutes – deleted) Act III (20 minutes – deleted) Act IV (30 minutes – deleted) Numerous alterations and additions in ink and pencil (especially Editions Printed vocal score Engraved by Henderson & Spalding Ltd., and published by OUP in 1930. xii + 307 pp. Price 30/– . Printed vocal score of Episode and Interlude Engraved by Henderson & Spalding Ltd., and published by OUP in 1936. The first seventeen pages originally contained the Prologue, but these were torn out when the composer decided to withdraw it. The publication now extends from p. 18 to p. 57. The music of pp. 55–7, concerning Dr Caius and Slender, are no longer part of the opera. Perusal Score Not for Performance ix
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