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Musical plays.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Plays in which music, usually in the form of songs, is essential to the narrative. Source: Dennis Kennedy, 'The Oxford companion to theatre and performance' (Oxford, 2010).

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Dramatic works of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1955-[1983, or before.]

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26596-26607
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1955-[1983, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.

Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch., 1957-[1983, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26603-26605
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1957-[1983, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father. / Dramatic works of Robert Garioch Sutherland.

Manuscripts of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch., 1957.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26603-26604
Scope and Contents

MSS.26603-26604 contain notes and the manuscript versions written in 1957 when the musical accompaniment was to be composed by Gordon Steele.

Dates: 1957.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father. / Dramatic works of Robert Garioch Sutherland. / Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch.

Notes and manuscript versions of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch., 1957.

 File
Identifier: MS.26603
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

MSS.26603-26604 contain notes and the manuscript versions written in 1957 when the musical accompaniment was to be composed by Gordon Steele.

Dates: 1957.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father. / Dramatic works of Robert Garioch Sutherland. / Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch. / Manuscripts of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch.

Notes and manuscript versions of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch., 1957.

 File
Identifier: MS.26604
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

MSS.26603-26604 contain notes and the manuscript versions written in 1957 when the musical accompaniment was to be composed by Gordon Steele.

Dates: 1957.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father. / Dramatic works of Robert Garioch Sutherland. / Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch. / Manuscripts of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch.

Notes and typescripts of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch., [1983, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26605
Scope and Contents

These notes and typescripts, were apparently written later when the musical collaborator was Adrian Secchi.

Dates: [1983, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father. / Dramatic works of Robert Garioch Sutherland. / Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The Laird o Dreepdaily: a musical ploy in one act' by Robert Garioch.

Photocopied typescript of 'Macmyth', by Andrew Simon, containing music and lyrics., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11443/97
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes prompt scripts, scripts of unperformed plays, production photography and press cuttings.

Dates: Undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Fifth Estate Theatre Company. / Scripts of the Fifth Estate Theatre Company, possibly unperformed.

'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson, music composed by Learmont Drysdale': orchestral score., [Circa 1894.]

 File
Identifier: MS.3204
Dates: [Circa 1894.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph. / '"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson.' Vocal and orchestral scores by Learmont Drysdale, with a 'sketch score'.

'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson, music composed by Learmont Drysdale': sketch score., [Circa 1894.]

 File
Identifier: MS.3205
Dates: [Circa 1894.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph. / '"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson.' Vocal and orchestral scores by Learmont Drysdale, with a 'sketch score'.

'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson, music composed by Learmont Drysdale': vocal score., [Circa 1894.]

 File
Identifier: MS.3203
Dates: [Circa 1894.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph. / '"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson.' Vocal and orchestral scores by Learmont Drysdale, with a 'sketch score'.

'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson.' Vocal and orchestral scores by Learmont Drysdale, with a 'sketch score'., [Circa 1894.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3203-3205
Dates: [Circa 1894.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph.

Prompt copy of two productions of ‘Guy Mannering’ a musical play by Daniel Terry, based on the novel of Sir Walter Scott.

 File
Identifier: MS.23133
Dates: 1827, 1840-1869.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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