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BTC773 THE KING'S STAMP

Film score
Period of composition: 1 - 16 May 1935
Genre: Incidental music
Performing forces:

Fl (=picc), cl in B flat, cl in A - perc (trgl, susp cymb, cymb, wb, sd, bd) - 2 pf.

Notes

Written to accompany the documentary film of the same name, directed by William Coldstream (1908-1987) for the GPO Film Unit. Some music in this was film later used in Men of the Alps (Sep-Oct 1936) and Mony a pickle (ca. 1938). It was recorded to the film on 17 May 1935. Kept with the manuscript sources for this work is an example of the 'King's stamp' itself.

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