Spells : for high voice, flute (doublihg alto flute), oboe (doubling cor anglais), viola and percussion (suspended cymbals, tam tam, triangle, claves, small pitched bells) / the poems by Kathleen Raine ; the music by Wilfrid Mellers. 1960 Oct. 4.

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Spells : for high voice, flute (doublihg alto flute), oboe (doubling cor anglais), viola and percussion (suspended cymbals, tam tam, triangle, claves, small pitched bells) / the poems by Kathleen Raine ; the music by Wilfrid Mellers. 1960 Oct. 4.

1 ms. score (43 p.) ; 31 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7162619

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Mellers, Wilfrid, 1914-2008

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Epithet: composer and musicologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0003b2 ...

Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003

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Kathleen Raine was born in London, her father was a schoolmaster, and the family strict Methodists. She was sent to stay with an aunt in rural Northumberland for the duration of World War I, an idyllic childhood period she later recalled in 'Farewell Happy Fields' (1973). She was educated at Ilford County High School and came to Girton as an Exhibitioner to read Natural Sciences then Moral Sciences 1926-29. While she was at Cambridge she began writing poetry and also made long-term friendships w...