Preludes. Musical compositions.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Pieces of music serving as an introduction, e.g. to an act of an opera or to a suite or fugue. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
'Four preludes in odd rhythms', for piano, undated, by Maude Beswick., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21640
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Full score, in the composer's autograph, of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an orchestral prelude by Learmont Drysdale., [1890.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3206
Full score, undated, of 'Prelude and fugue' for string orchestra., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.22000
Scope and Contents
Two sheets are stuck together to comprise folio 1.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
Music, chiefly of W B Moonie and Maude Beswick., 1918-mid 20th century, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21627-21642
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
1918-mid 20th century, undated.
Music of John Davidson chiefly for string quartet., [?1871-?1926.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22022-22046
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
John Davidson, a member of the family of J & A Davidson, coal merchants and shipping agents, Aberdeen, was an amateur musician and composer. His preferred medium appears to have been the string quartet, but he composed and arranged pieces also for other combinations of instruments, chiefly strings. A number of pieces appear in more than one form. The collection contains both full scores and parts.The earliest and latest dates discernible are 1871 and 1926, but almost...
Dates:
[?1871-?1926.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
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Musical compositions and other papers, chiefly undated, of John Davidson.
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.
Small music book, undated (but apparently circa 1950), made for use at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, containing various sketches and compositions, and sketches for the prelude to 'Lucy Ashton'., [Circa 1950.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21997
Scope and Contents
Some of the leaves are damaged.
Dates:
[Circa 1950.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.