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Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.

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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.

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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.

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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 'Quintet No 1' for pianoforte and strings by Cyril Scott.

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Identifier: MS.21861
Scope and Contents

Apparently unpublished, this is not the ‘Quintet’ published, 1926, as part of the Carnegie collection of British Music.

A leaf is cut out after folio 6 and a few more after folios 49.

Dates: 1900.

Autograph score of 'Two invocations for tenor and piano', opus 25, by John Joubert, with amendments in coloured inks.

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Identifier: MS.21976
Scope and Contents

Settings of 'To winter' (folio 2) and 'To spring' (folio 9) by William Blake.

The work was published in 1960 and received its Scottish premiere at the National Library of Scotland, 28 August 1969.

Dates: 1953.

Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.

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Identifier: MSS.22153-22162
Scope and Contents

Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.

Dates: 1899-1943, undated.

Autograph vocal scores of works by Hamish MacCunn.

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Identifier: MSS.21979-21980
Dates: [Before 1890, before 1891.]

'Festival Mass for full orchestra & chorus; a study in instrumentation, composed by William Wallace' (born 1860), in his autograph.

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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.

Music of Robert Crawford for string quartet.

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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.

Photocopies of autograph scores of four choral works by Shena Fraser.

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Identifier: MS.22147
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'Carillon’, a choral suite for women's or school choir and keyboard, 1956, which was published in 1958 (folio 1);(ii) 'To him give praise’, a choral suite for women's voices, strings and piano, 1959, which was published 1960 (folio 49);(iii) 'I saw a fair maiden’, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, with tenor solo, which was published 1965 (folio 75); (iv) 'A quartette of carols', for treble voices and piano,...
Dates: 1956-[1965, or before], undated.