Heavily corrected setting for voices and piano, interleaved with a fair copy of the full score of a setting for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, of the ballad 'Sir Patrick Spans' by David Stephen., 1920.
File
Identifier: MS.22154
Scope and Contents
Apparently composed, or completed, in 1920, according to a deleted note at folio 48. The orchestral accompaniment in short score was published the same year.
An anglicized printed copy of the ballad, with numerous amendments in ink restoring the original Scots words, is at folio 2.
Many substantial corrections to the keyboard version are written on fragments of paper pasted to the leaves, and folio 28 is an addition written on a scrap of paper tipped in.
Dates
- Creation: 1920.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
48 Leaves ; 313 x 252 millimetres.
Language of Materials
From the Series: Undetermined
Arrangement
48 folios.
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk