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Librettos. Documents for music.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books or booklets containing the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works of James Leslie Mitchell., 1928-1984, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10966/3-40
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Includes personal documents, publishing agreements, royalty statements and related correspondence. These papers are mostly concerned with the administration of James Leslie Mitchell's (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) literary estate following his death in 1935, firstly by his wife, Ray Mitchell, and subsequently by his daughter, Rhea Martin.

Dates: 1928-1984, undated.

Drafts and corrected typescripts of "The Seven Deadly Sins: a Mask", libretto by Robert Nye, music by James Douglas.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6241/1-5
Scope and Contents

With manuscript score of the music, and correspondence concerning the work and its performance at the Stirling Festval, 1973, and Edinburgh International Festival, 1974.

Dates: 1973-1974.

Drafts, notebooks and manuscript books relating to "The Seven Deadly Sins: a Mask"., 1973-1974

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.6241/2-4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

With manuscript score of the music, and correspondence concerning the work and its performance at the Stirling Festval, 1973, and Edinburgh International Festival, 1974.

Dates: 1973-1974

Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents

Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).

Dates: 2001-2012.

Imperfect copy, lacking the title page, of the libretto of ‘La Traviata’ by Verdi (Paris, 1865).

 File
Identifier: MS.21855
Scope and Contents The copy contains two printed summaries of the plot tipped in at the front (folios i-ii) and numerous stage directions written on leaves tipped in throughout the volume and in the margins of the printed pages, as well as alterations to the text, for an unidentified apparently late nineteenth-century French production.The volume is signed by Ernest Marchand (deleted) and Francois Runaio on the upper cover which is inscribed 'Travrata mise en Scène n[o]. 2', and by Marchand on page...
Dates: 1865, late 19th century.

Libretto and vocal score of ‘The speed cop’, a comic opera in a prologue and three acts by G W Crawford, with libretto by Clement J Bundock., [?1892-?1941.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21956-21957
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.]

Libretto, apparently in the hand of James McLaurin with additions and alterations in another hand, to ‘The Grand Lama’ by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.21948
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.]

Libretto by Colin MacLean for the opera "Hugh Miller" by Reginald Barrett-Ayres.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9192
Scope and Contents

With correspondence concerning the opera`s production and performances.

Dates: 1974.

Literary papers of Ron Butlin.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14038

Manuscripts in German script., 1776, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.5721
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'Die Erschaffung Adam und Eva' in the form of a libretto (folio 1);

(ii) 'Haubt Relation über das Churfürstenthum Bayern' (folio 17);

(iii) Miscellaneous verses (folio 69).

Dates: 1776, undated.

Manuscripts, typescripts, and related working papers of other creative works of Ian Rankin., 1977-2016, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50516-50523
Scope and Contents

This series contains manuscripts and typescripts of, and associated working papers for, various other creative works of Ian Rankin. The working papers include development and editorial notes. Administrative papers and correspondence relating to some of the works are also included.

Dates: 1977-2016, undated.

Minutes of the Edinburgh Singverein, 1847-1848, and of the Society of Musical Amateurs, 1848-1853, with a large quantity of ephemeral printed material, programmes, libretti, circulars, press cuttings, etc., concerning music in Edinburgh at that period., 1847-1853.

 File
Identifier: MS.21665
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: 1847-1853.

Miscellaneous musical stage works of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21958-21962
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.]

Music of G W Crawford for stage works., [?1892-?1941.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21936-21967
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.]

Scores and piano reductions of ‘The Grand Lama’, a comic opera in three acts by G W Crawford, with libretto by James N McLaurin., [?1892-?1941.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21948-21951
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.]