Documento 14 - Working notebooks, proofs, and other material relating to "The Bride of Dionysus"

Nine gatherings of typescript, most with a brown paper cover.
Eleven paperback notebooks
Three specimens of printed pages (each one bifolium)
Eleven pages of printed galley proofs, thirty three pages of page proofs, plus nine pages with manuscript corrections as insertions.
One printed booklet, with one page inserted of manuscript notes.
Two printed programmes each on one folded sheet of paper.

Typescripts of parts of "The Bride of Dionysus", bound in brown paper, with stamps of 'Miss Dickens's Type-writing Office, 3 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, WC'.' Typed on recto only, with extensive corrections and annotations around typescript and on facing verso; these are mostly in Trevelyan's hand, but include some musical notation which may be by Donald Tovey. Two bound gatherings labelled 'Act I', two labelled 'Act II', two labelled 'Acts II & III', one labelled 'Acts IV & V' with a second copy which has lost its binding; another gathering which has lost its cover seems to contain text from Act II [Date uncertain, but before the revision of the drama into three acts around 1912].

Working notebooks for "The Bride of Dionysus", in R. C. Trevelyan's hand, largely in ink with some pencil; corrections and additions in blue pencil; some have insertions and paste-ins: three labelled 'Act 1', four 'Act II', and four 'Act III' [the arrangement of the drama in three acts suggest that the notebooks are from a later date than the typescripts which use the earlier five act structure]

Specimen printed pages for "The Bride of Dionysus, A Music Drama, and Other Poems" (three copies, each a bifolium).

Printed galley proofs for the "Other Poems" from the "Bride of Dionysus" (eleven pages, including some duplicates), with extensive corrections in Trevelyan's hand; printed page proofs for "The Bride of Dionysus" [music drama], with many corrections in Trevelyan's hand and several insertions with further corrections (thirty three pages and nine insertions). Corrections to the page proofs are not reproduced in the 1912 published version, and may well relate to alterations for the opera as performed with music by Donald Tovey.

"The Bride of Dionysus: An Opera in Three Acts". Analysis of the opera and its music, by Donald Tovey, published by Townsend & Thomson to coincide with the production in Edinburgh in 1929; one page insertion with notes in Trevelyan's hand on why Greek classical drama's dialogue and speeches, the 'main business of the play', are not lyric and therefore could not be a great influence upon the opera. Printed 'Argument' for the performance in 1929. Printed programme for the performances in April 1932 by the Edinburgh Opera Company of "The Bride of Dionysus" and "Il Trovatore", including cast list and Tovey's 'Argument' for "The Bride of Dionysus".

In second box.