Guide to the Papers of Dulcie Holland

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MS 6853, MS Acc03.113

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Class MS 6853. Original Consignment

Comprises four series. The first series, of personal documents, includes a diary and associated papers covering the period when Dulcie Holland left Australia to study music in London. Holland's original scores date from the 1930s to the 1990s and comprise the second series. They include chamber music, orchestral music, early compositions, piano music, solo works and songs. This series includes 146 titles. The scores are signed, or initialled, and dated by Holland. She also annotated many of the scores with the name of the lyricist for whose works she wrote the melodies, the name of the choir or occasion that a composition was arranged for, or the name of the person who first performed the piece...

Series 1. Personal documents, 1937-97

Beginning with the sea voyage from Melbourne to London aboard the Otranto, Holland's handwritten diary documents the period she spent studying in London at the Royal College of Music, and travelling in Europe...

Diary, 11 September 1937 - November 1939 (File 1) - Box 1

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