Musical compositions.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: General term for the creation and conceptual arrangements of music into works to be performed.
Found in 240 Collections and/or Records:
Full score of "A blot in the 'Scutcheon" by G W Crawford., 1919.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21940-21942
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The work is apparently unpublished, although intended for publication, or at least printing (MS.21940, folio 1 verso).
Dates:
1919.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Operas of G W Crawford.
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Full score and piano reduction of "A blot in the 'Scutcheon", a melodrama in three acts by G W Crawford, setting poetry by Robert Browning.
Full score of Act 1, Scene 2 and Act 2 of “A blot in the ‘Scutcheon” by G W Crawford., 1919.
Item
Identifier: MS.21941
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The work is apparently unpublished, although intended for publication, or at least printing (MS.21940, folio 1 verso).
Dates:
1919.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Operas of G W Crawford.
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Full score and piano reduction of "A blot in the 'Scutcheon", a melodrama in three acts by G W Crawford, setting poetry by Robert Browning.
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Full score of "A blot in the 'Scutcheon" by G W Crawford.
Full score of Act 3 of “A blot in the ‘Scutcheon” by G W Crawford., 1919.
Item
Identifier: MS.21942
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The work is apparently unpublished, although intended for publication, or at least printing (MS.21940, folio 1 verso).
Dates:
1919.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Operas of G W Crawford.
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Full score and piano reduction of "A blot in the 'Scutcheon", a melodrama in three acts by G W Crawford, setting poetry by Robert Browning.
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Full score of "A blot in the 'Scutcheon" by G W Crawford.
Full score of brass band setting of 'Perthshire echoes'., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21998
Scope and Contents
Fragments of the title page of a different, unidentified, edition are pasted to folio i. A photogravure of W B Moonie, apparently from the same source, is pasted to folio iv.
Dates:
1st 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.
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Full scores, undated, of various settings of 'Perthshire echoes', a suite of arrangements of Scottish airs or tunes named after various places in the county.
Full score of overture and incidental music of G W Crawford to ‘Cardinal Beaton’, a drama by W Roberton., [?1892-?1941]
File
Identifier: MS.21963
Scope and Contents
A leaf is tipped in at folio 28, containing music to replace that cancelled on folio 27 verso.
Dates:
[?1892-?1941]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Incidental music of G W Crawford.
Full score of the Prelude and Act 1, Scene 1 of “A blot in the ‘Scutcheon” by G W Crawford., 1919.
Item
Identifier: MS.21940
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The work is apparently unpublished, although intended for publication, or at least printing (MS.21940, folio 1 verso).
Dates:
1919.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
/
Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
/
Operas of G W Crawford.
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Full score and piano reduction of "A blot in the 'Scutcheon", a melodrama in three acts by G W Crawford, setting poetry by Robert Browning.
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Full score of "A blot in the 'Scutcheon" by G W Crawford.
Full score, undated, of a work in three movements for piano quartet entitled 'Fantasy Quintet' by David Stephen., Early 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.22157
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Full scores of an arrangement for string quartet and of a 'special' arrangement for strings (omitting viola), organ and timpani of 'Perthshire echoes'., 1st quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21999
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Some of the scores are incomplete.
Dates:
1st 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.
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Full scores, undated, of various settings of 'Perthshire echoes', a suite of arrangements of Scottish airs or tunes named after various places in the county.
Full scores of two works of chamber music by David Stephen., 1899, 1920.
File
Identifier: MS.22158
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Full score of a work in one movement for string quartet entitled 'Epithalamium', 1920 (folio 1);
(ii) Full score of ‘Trio in B flat major for piano, oboe & horn’, a work in three movements, or sections, composed apparently in 1899, which won the Leslie Alexander Prize and was first performed in 1900 (folio 3).
Dates:
1899, 1920.
Full scores, undated, of various settings of 'Perthshire echoes', a suite of arrangements of Scottish airs or tunes named after various places in the county., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21998-21999
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Some of the scores are incomplete.
Dates:
1st 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.
'Harmonised tunes', being a collection of tunes by older composers, with an attempt to arrange them for string quartet, undated., 1st half of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21675
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Lady John Scott collection of music, chiefly Scottish.
Series
Identifier: MSS.834-843
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of manuscript music composed or collected by Lady John Scott (Alicia Anne Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, died 1900, wife of Lord John Douglas Scott), much of it being in her autograph.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Letter, 1960, to Don Whyte, returning him a script, 1949, of a broadcast; and music, undated, of pieces composed or arranged by Whyte used in Children's Hour broadcasts., 1949, 1960, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22094
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Apart from the film music, which is datable to 1947-1948 from the accompanying correspondence and papers (MSS.22085-22086), almost all the music is undated; but from the ink used, some of it may be dated to about the same period.
Except where otherwise stated the music is written as for keyboard.
Dates:
1949, 1960, undated.
Letters of James Scott Skinner to Charles Sutherland, and musical compositions of Skinner., 1917, 1921, 1923-1924, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22078, folios 4-49
Dates:
1917, 1921, 1923-1924, undated.
Lists or indexes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson, with lectures by Henderson on musical subjects and other miscellaneous material., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21710
Scope and Contents
The lists or indexes are of the following material:(i) Sheet music of Scottish interest (folio 1);(ii) Printed compositions, 1930, by James Scott Skinner (folio 62);(iii) The collections, 1931, printed by the Gow family (folio 69);(iv) Scottish Country dances with tunes and alternatives found in various collections published from 1924 onwards (folio 78);(v) Tutors and collections of bagpipe music, 1948 (folio 83);(vi)...
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Loose sheets of music with accompanying material., 19th century-1943.
File
Identifier: MS.22141
Scope and Contents
Much of the music consists of traditional Scottish tunes. In addition there are some French pieces (folios 84) and various tunes apparently copied from teaching books.The loose sheets of music (folio 1) are preceded by a letter, 1943, to a former owner of MSS.22137-22141: Music books of fiddle music written by William McKinley (folio i), and followed by an unidentified nineteenth-century photograph (folio 90), a press-cutting, ?1932 (folio 91), and strips of paper containing...
Dates:
19th century-1943.
Manuscript arrangement for pianoforte, undated, made by Percy Grainger of ‘Air and dance’ by Frederick Delius., 1915.
Item
Identifier: MS.21862, folios 1-2
Dates:
1915.
Manuscript, 'Melody for orchestra', by Learmont Drysdale; the full score in separate parts., [Before 1910.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3208
Manuscript of bass parts of pieces of music chiefly by Jean Baptiste Lully., Late 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.9463
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Many of these pieces are already represented in MSS.9459-9461, but in addition there are a sarabande, three minuets and a chaconne (numbers 28, 29, 32, 33, 74) from the 'Trios pour le coucher du roi', one ritournelle from 'Proserpine', and a suite of twelve pieces from 'Belérophon'. There are also two pieces (numbers 40 and 41) attributed to Monsieur de la Voye.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Manuscript of the treble and bass parts of 157 pieces of music (numbered to 154) chiefly by Jean Baptiste Lully., Late 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MSS.9462-9463
Scope and Contents
Many of these pieces are already represented in MSS.9459-9461, but in addition there are a sarabande, three minuets and a chaconne (numbers 28, 29, 32, 33, 74) from the 'Trios pour le coucher du roi', one ritournelle from 'Proserpine', and a suite of twelve pieces from 'Belérophon'. There are also two pieces (numbers 40 and 41) attributed to Monsieur de la Voye.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Manuscript of the treble parts of pieces of music chiefly by Jean Baptiste Lully., Late 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.9462
Scope and Contents
The volume includes three pieces by Verdict for bass viol (folios 92 verso-94).
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Manuscripts in the collection of Scottish and other music formed by Alexander Wood Inglis, Secretary to the Board of Manufactures, including compositions by Inglis himself.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3327-3353
Dates:
18th century-early 20th century.
Manuscripts of English composers.
Series
Identifier: MS.21862
Dates:
Early 20th century-1971, undated.
Manuscripts of musical compositions of Percy Grainger, chiefly related in some way to Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21867-21873
Scope and Contents
Most of the pieces are related in some way to Scotland.
Dates:
1900-1950, undated.
Material gathered by John Murdoch Henderson in connection with an attempt to categorise Scottish music by theme, style, and key., [Circa 1930]-1953, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21694-21699
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
[Circa 1930]-1953, undated.