Melodramas.

Subject

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Subject Source: Other Source

Scope Note: Plays interspersed with songs and orchestral music accompanying the action. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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., 1919.

Sub-Series

Identifier: MSS.21940-21943

Scope and Contents

The work is apparently unpublished, although intended for publication, or at least printing (MS.21940, folio 1 verso).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 / 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.

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The work is apparently unpublished, although intended for publication, or at least printing (MS.21940, folio 1 verso).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 / 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. / 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The work is apparently unpublished, although intended for publication, or at least printing (MS.21940, folio 1 verso).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 / 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. / 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 "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 / 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. / 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 "A blot in the 'Scutcheon" by 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 / 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. / 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 "A blot in the 'Scutcheon" by G W Crawford.

Piano reduction of “A blot in the ‘Scutcheon” by G W Crawford., 1919.

Item

Identifier: MS.21943

Scope and Contents

A leaf formerly loosely enclosed has been tipped in at folio i. Additional music formerly pinned in is tipped in at folios 25 and 30. Folio 40 is tipped in at the outer margin of folio 39.

Dates: 1919.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / 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. / 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.