Short score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with some revision of song titles in red crayon. The 'Prologue' and 'Epilogue' are not included.
Title page (f. 1): 'Serenade', in red crayon, written across a draft of the beginning (struck-through) of 'Dirge' (cf. f. 9). The draft continues (not struck-through) onto f. 1v.
'Pastoral' (ff. 2-3), title in red crayon. Words, Charles Cotton. A previous title ('Nocturne', in pencil) has been struck-through. Folio 3v: untitled rough notation.
'Nocturne' (ff. 4-6v), title in red crayon. Words, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. A previous title ('Ballad', in pencil) has been struck-through. The tenor part is marked 'PP' (for Peter Pears).
'Elegy' (ff. 7-8). Words, William Blake. The tenor part is marked 'PP'.
'Dirge' (ff. 9-10v). Words, Anon. Cf. ff. 1-1v.
'Hymn' (ff. 11-13v). Words, Ben Jonson. The tenor part is marked 'PP'. Dated 'April 2nd 1943' (f. 13v).
'Sonnet' (ff. 14-15). Words, John Keats. The tenor part is marked 'PP'. Initialled and dated: 'Snape / March 21st 1943 / BB' (f. 15).
First performance: 15 October 1943, Wigmore Hall, London.