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Autograph draft score and final version of Edward Harper, "Launch whan ye can", for alto, tenor and piano (words by William Soutar).
Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
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.
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.
Draft and completed musical scores, including the symphony "The Creation", by William Wallace.
Includes correspondence and papers on musical controversies.
Drafts and corrected typescripts of "The Seven Deadly Sins: a Mask", libretto by Robert Nye, music by James Douglas.
With manuscript score of the music, and correspondence concerning the work and its performance at the Stirling Festval, 1973, and Edinburgh International Festival, 1974.
Drafts and sketches of the "Organ Sonata" by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Gaelic songs and music, with some translations, collected and arranged by Duncan M Morison, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Includes musical pieces composed by Morison.
“Invernessshire grand march compos’d expressly for, and dedicated (by permission) to Lt.-Col. Duff. By M[ichael] Kelly”, arranged in full military band score.
Manuscript draft and fair copy of the pipe tune of Andrew R Hunter, "The King of Norway`s Welcome to Riccarton".
Manuscript draft of Piano Concerto by Edward Harper.
Manuscripts of the song, "An Immorality" and preliminary draft score of "Obliques", both of Thea Musgrave.
Miscellaneous collection of music, and of lectures and writings (many fragmentary) on music, and on Scottish music in particular, by Francis George Scott.
Music of Robert Crawford for string quartet.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Papers concerning "Passacaglia on DSCH" by Ronald Stevenson
Includes scores, notes, press cuttings, a speech and correspondence.
Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.
Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.
Papers of Isobel V S Dunlop, containing correspondence, music, poetry and related material.
Includes music scores, correspondence and papers concerning the Saltire Society and Saltire Music Group.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Photocopy of typescript of "The Stick-Up", a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with autograph emendations and additions by Robin Orr, being a draft of the libretto of his opera "Full Circle".
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Sketch, with corrections and additions, and fair copy of Romance in F minor for full orchestra by Robert McLeod.
Sketches and draft score of Ricercare for clarinet, horn, bassoon, string quartet and bass, by Robert Crawford.
Successive typescript texts, fragmentary notes, and revisions of 'The last heir', a dramatization, in four acts, of ‘The bride of Lammermoor’ by Sir Walter Scott, made for Sir John Martin-Harvey by Stephen Phillips; together with an orchestral score by Norman O'Neill.
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.