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Autographs (manuscripts).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents written in, and usually signed with, the writer's own hand; in certain legal instances, prefer "holographs."

Found in 216 Collections and/or Records:

Autograph musical scores of David Dorward., 1961, 1967, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.22144
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.

Dates: 1961, 1967, undated.

Autograph musical scores of David Dorward containing sketches and some final versions of works for various combinations of instruments, including voices.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22144-22145
Scope and Contents

Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.

Dates: 1961, 1967, undated.

Autograph musical scores, undated, of David Dorward., [?1961-?1967.]

 File
Identifier: MS.22145
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.

Dates: [?1961-?1967.]

Autograph score, 1953, of ‘Sonata for violoncello and piano’ by Hans Gál.

 Item
Identifier: MS.22150
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1953.

Autograph score, [circa 1920], of the piano quintet number 2 in D by W B Moonie, with later amendments., [Circa 1920.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.21632
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: [Circa 1920.]

Autograph score of 'Quintet No 1' for pianoforte and strings by Cyril Scott.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21861
Scope and Contents

Apparently unpublished, this is not the ‘Quintet’ published, 1926, as part of the Carnegie collection of British Music.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.

Dates: 1900.

Autograph score of the piano quintet in G by W B Moonie., 1918.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21631
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates: 1918.

Autograph score of 'Two invocations for tenor and piano', opus 25, by John Joubert, with amendments in coloured inks.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21976
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1953.

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.

Autograph sermons, apparently unpublished, of Hugh Anderson of Udol, Presbyterian minister of Cromarty.

 File
Identifier: MS.8483
Scope and Contents

Most of the sermons are undated, but one is written on the back of a letter of 1702, another is of 1662, and two others of 1666. These last refer to the plague in England, while another was used as a 'presbyterial exercise'.

The papers also includes a summons, ?1662, ordering Hugh Anderson to answer charges before the Bishop of Ross.

Dates: 1662, 1666, ?1702, undated.

Autograph version, apparently unpublished, of 'Peebles to the Play' by James Ballantine.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8489
Scope and Contents

The manuscript does not appear to have been published. However, a version of the poem was prepared for the inauguration of the Chambers' Institution, Peebles, 1859.

Dates: [1859, or before].

Autograph vocal scores of works by Hamish MacCunn.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21979-21980
Dates: [Before 1890, before 1891.]