Choral music.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Musical compositions specifically composed or arranged for choir, regardless of the notation in which they are recorded.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.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.
Music for parish church choirs composed by the Revd Richard Evans, Director of Music at St Andrew's Episcopal Church, St. Andrews.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14267
Content Description
Photocopies and print-outs of manuscript or typeset choral music composed by the Reverend Richard Evans, Director of Music from 1995-2020 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, St. Andrews. The compilation was edited in 2020 by Dr Jane Pettegree, Choir Director, to celebrate Evans's retirement and 25 years in post. It includes a biographical note of the composer.The volume contains: St Margaret's Mass, St Andrew's Liturgy (2018), Evensong Preces and Responses (2016), Choral Amens,...
Dates:
2020
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
Mid 20th century-1988, undated.
Photocopies of autograph scores of four choral works by Shena Fraser.
File
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.
Sound recordings concerning the life and career of Professor John Read, and his interest in alchemical music.
Collection
Identifier: UNLS036
Dates:
1935-1960.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21881-21974
Scope and Contents
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
1892-1941, undated.