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A View of Elgar's Methods of Composition through the Sketches of the Symphony no. 2 in E♭ (op. 63)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1976

Christopher Kent
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The main sources of sketches for Elgar's Second Symphony are the two Stuart-Wortley volumes in the care of the Elgar Birthplace Trust. Each is bound in black calf-skin, and measures 26 by 31.5 cm. They are entitled as follows, firstly, (S-W/B):

Original Manuscript Sketches/for Symphony No. 2/by/Sir Edward Elgar//Short Score/As given by him to Mrs Charles Stuart-Wortley/March 1911 /♦/Bequeathed by her to the/Elgar Birthplace/Broad Heath, Worcester/1936.

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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 103 , 1976 , pp. 41 - 60
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Copyright © 1978 The Royal Musical Association and the Authors

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1 Michael Kennedy, A Portrait of Elgar (London, 1968), 129 et seq.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 References are to the rehearsal numbers in the published score. Small numbers (e.g. 282) are used to identify a bar following a number.Google Scholar

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