Ballets. Musical compositions.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Musical compositions written to accompany an artistic dance form using precise and formalised set steps and gestures. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Ballet and dance music for orchestra by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21925-21931
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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.
Item
Identifier: MS.21860
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
[?1869.]
Fair copy of the full score of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21928
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
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.
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Ballet and dance music for orchestra by G W Crawford.
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Full score of the ballet ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ by G W Crawford, with a fair copy of the same.
Full score and piano reduction for the ballet ‘Cinderella’ by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21925-21926
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
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.
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Ballet and dance music for orchestra by G W Crawford.
Full score of the ballet ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ by G W Crawford, with a fair copy of the same., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21927-21928
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
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.
/
Ballet and dance music for orchestra by G W Crawford.
Full score of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21927
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
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.
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Ballet and dance music for orchestra by G W Crawford.
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Full score of the ballet ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ by G W Crawford, with a fair copy of the same.
Opera and ballet music of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.22087
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Sections, some partly in full score, apparently of the ballet 'Donald of the Burthens' 1951 (folio 1);
(ii) Two copies, both incomplete, of the libretto of 'The forge', an opera (or operetta) in two acts, and a fragment of music (folio 30);
(iii) Part of the libretto, some costume designs and some sections of music for the ballet 'The trout' (folio 86).
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Piano reduction of ‘Cinderella’, parts I and II, by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21926
Scope and Contents
The piano reduction for part II is apparently incomplete.
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
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.
/
Ballet and dance music for orchestra by G W Crawford.
/
Full score and piano reduction for the ballet ‘Cinderella’ by G W Crawford.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21881-21974
Scope and Contents
Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...
Dates:
1892-1941, undated.