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Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
Autograph musical scores of David Dorward containing sketches and some final versions of works for various combinations of instruments, including voices.
Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.
Autograph score, 1953, of ‘Sonata for violoncello and piano’ by Hans Gál.
The score bears a few corrections, one of which is written on a scrap of paper (folio 13) pasted to folio 14. Folio 15 consists of two leaves pasted together.
Autograph score of 'Quintet No 1' for pianoforte and strings by Cyril Scott.
Apparently unpublished, this is not the ‘Quintet’ published, 1926, as part of the Carnegie collection of British Music.
A leaf is cut out after folio 6 and a few more after folios 49.
Autograph score of the overture “Tam o' Shanter”, Opus 51, by Malcolm Arnold, bearing several marks from use in performance.
Autograph score of 'Three Songs of Night' for baritone and strings, composed by Leon Coates from ‘Pomes Penyeach’ by James Joyce, for the Music Society of St Peter's College, Oxford.
Autograph score of 'Two invocations for tenor and piano', opus 25, by John Joubert, with amendments in coloured inks.
Settings of 'To winter' (folio 2) and 'To spring' (folio 9) by William Blake.
The work was published in 1960 and received its Scottish premiere at the National Library of Scotland, 28 August 1969.
Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Autograph scores of orchestral works by William Wordsworth.
Autograph scores of original compositions and arrangements of William Bowie, organist and music teacher at the Royal High School, Edinburgh.
Autograph second draft with alterations and additions of short score of Concerto for String Orchestra, opus 39, by Kenneth Leighton, when Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Autograph vocal scores of works by Hamish MacCunn.
Band parts of Scottish dance tunes originally the property of Jockie Reid, a dance band leader and dancing instructor.
Each volume contains a number of additional pieces on loose sheets which have been tipped in, but the latter half of each volume is blank.
Berlioz's marked copy of a printed score of ‘Iphigénie en Tauride’ by Christoph Willibald von Gluck ([?Paris, ?1779]).
The copy is imperfect, lacking the title page. In addition to the amendments of Berlioz to instrumentation and dynamics, strips of blue paper on which is written an Italian version of the libretto are pasted to the printed pages, covering the French libretto, through the greater part of the volume. The paper covers in which the volume was previously enclosed are bound in at the back (folios i-iv).
Contemporary copy of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
Copy in a contemporary hand of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi was first performed in 1853.
Copy in an apparently twentieth-century hand of the piano score of ‘Don Quichotte’, a ballet by Petipa to music by Minkus, which was first performed in 1869.
The markings and deletions in pencil and crayon are presumably in the hand of Th. Wassileff, whose name is stamped on the flyleaf and elsewhere in the score.
Copy of ‘Pièces en trio pour les flutes, violon et dessus de viole’ by Marin Marais.
Corrected full score of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an opera in four acts by David Johnson.
Facsimile of chorus part of acts I-III of 'Christian the pilgrim', an opera, undated, by James A Moonie, with words adapted by George Peacock from “Pilgrim's progress” by John Bunyan; and a vocal trio from 'A broken coupling', undated, an operetta by Moonie.
'Festival Mass for full orchestra & chorus; a study in instrumentation, composed by William Wallace' (born 1860), in his autograph.
The composer gives a history (folio xiii) of the work, which was composed in 1886-1887 and, in part, scored in 1888 (see dates on various folios). Some parts are incomplete.
Interspersed with the music are unruled leaves, bearing illuminations, manuscript notes of the composer, etc., on folios i-ii, viii, x-xiii, xxv, xxvii verso, xxviii verso, xxxix, xliii, xlvii, li.
Fragmentary full score of ‘Tita’, the first opera by Ladislao Zavertal, composer and conductor.
The opera was produced at Treviso in 1870, and later rewritten and published as ‘Adriana’ (Lago di Como, 1930). The score, in the handwriting of Ladislao Zavertal’s father, Vaclav Hugo Zavertal, then Director of the Istituto Musicale of Treviso, appears to have been undergoing revision, and many pages have been discarded and replaced by others.