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Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
File
Identifier: MS.22151
Scope and Contents
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
Dates:
1969.
Autograph musical scores of David Dorward containing sketches and some final versions of works for various combinations of instruments, including voices.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22144-22145
Scope and Contents
Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.
Dates:
1961, 1967, undated.
Autograph score, 1953, of ‘Sonata for violoncello and piano’ by Hans Gál.
Item
Identifier: MS.22150
Scope and Contents
The score bears a few corrections, one of which is written on a scrap of paper (folio 13) pasted to folio 14. Folio 15 consists of two leaves pasted together.
Dates:
1953.
Autograph score of the overture “Tam o' Shanter”, Opus 51, by Malcolm Arnold, bearing several marks from use in performance.
Item
Identifier: MS.21863
Dates:
1955.
Autograph score of 'Three Songs of Night' for baritone and strings, composed by Leon Coates from ‘Pomes Penyeach’ by James Joyce, for the Music Society of St Peter's College, Oxford.
Item
Identifier: MS.21879
Dates:
1967.
Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22153-22162
Scope and Contents
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Dates:
1899-1943, undated.
Autograph second draft with alterations and additions of short score of Concerto for String Orchestra, opus 39, by Kenneth Leighton, when Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Item
Identifier: MS.21977
Dates:
[Circa 1960.]
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.22016
Dates:
1929, 1955.
Autograph vocal scores of works by Hamish MacCunn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21979-21980
Dates:
[Before 1890, before 1891.]
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Hunting of the Hare` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 973) (folio 1), followed by a mock sermon in prose (folio 7 verso) and nonsense verses (folio 10 verso) (the latter ‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 3425, both printed in ‘Reliquiae Antiquae’, volume 1, pages 82-84). See ‘The “Hunting of the Hare” in the Heege Manuscript’. Written by Richard Heeg.(ii) `Sir Gowther` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’,...
Dates:
Circa 1480.
Corrected full score of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an opera in four acts by David Johnson.
File
Identifier: MS.22152
Scope and Contents
The opera is based on the Border ballad collected by Sir Walter Scott (folio 1).Of the many corrections the most substantial are the additional leaves at folios 11, 21, 35, 38 (formerly stapled to folio 39), 45 (formerly stapled to folio 44) 46, 53-54, 57 and 100 (formerly stapled to folio 101). Leaves are cut out after folio 80 and 108.The score is preceded by a typed press release (folio i) and a printed programme (folio iii) of the premiere, which was performed in...
Dates:
1974-1976.
'Festival Mass for full orchestra & chorus; a study in instrumentation, composed by William Wallace' (born 1860), in his autograph.
File
Identifier: MS.3089
Scope and Contents
The composer gives a history (folio xiii) of the work, which was composed in 1886-1887 and, in part, scored in 1888 (see dates on various folios). Some parts are incomplete.
Interspersed with the music are unruled leaves, bearing illuminations, manuscript notes of the composer, etc., on folios i-ii, viii, x-xiii, xxv, xxvii verso, xxviii verso, xxxix, xliii, xlvii, li.
Dates:
1886-1888.
Four manuscript music books, collected by William Arnot Watterston.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11680
Scope and Contents
Books contain four part arrangements for violin, cello and flute of 230 airs, songs, reels and strathspeys.
Dates:
circa 1869-1883.
Fragmentary full score of ‘Tita’, the first opera by Ladislao Zavertal, composer and conductor.
File
Identifier: MS.6300
Scope and Contents
The opera was produced at Treviso in 1870, and later rewritten and published as ‘Adriana’ (Lago di Como, 1930). The score, in the handwriting of Ladislao Zavertal’s father, Vaclav Hugo Zavertal, then Director of the Istituto Musicale of Treviso, appears to have been undergoing revision, and many pages have been discarded and replaced by others.
Dates:
[1870, or before].
Manuscripts in the Cecil Hopkinson Collection of Hector Berlioz.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3428-3429
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Manuscripts of pipe tunes and songs of Alastair Shanks.
File
Identifier: Acc.7496
Dates:
mid 20th century.
Manuscripts of the song, "An Immorality" and preliminary draft score of "Obliques", both of Thea Musgrave.
File
Identifier: Acc.4735
Dates:
1951-1958.
Microfilm of autograph score of the overture “Tam o' Shanter”, Opus 51, by Malcolm Arnold, bearing several marks from use in performance.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1023
Dates:
1955.
Music of Robert Crawford for string quartet.
File
Identifier: MS.21975
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Autograph draft of String Quartet Number 1, opus 4 (folio 1), apparently begun in 1948 and completed in 1950 (folio 34 verso). The quartet was published in 1953. The music at folios 1-15 corresponds to the first two movements and that at folios 16-18, 19 to pages 17-19, 22-23 of the 3rd movement in the published score. The music at folios 20-30 seems to form no part of the published score, whilst that at folios 31-34, which is numbered 6, appears...
Dates:
1948-1957.
Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3199-3216
Dates:
Late 19th century-1909.
Photocopy of the autograph score of ‘Five preludes for piano from a Brittany sketch book', an apparently unpublished work, undated, by Isobel V S Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: MS.22146
Dates:
?Mid 20th century.
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21983-22014
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 20th century, undated.