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:
Corrected typescript drafts of the libretto of Ian Brown, "Rune", music by John Maxwell Geddes.
File
Identifier: Acc.6729
Dates:
1973.
Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works of James Leslie Mitchell., 1928-1984, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10966/3-40
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
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Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).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.
‘George and the dragon’ by G W Crawford, a comic opera in three acts with a libretto by James N McLaurin., [?1905.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21937-21939
Scope and Contents
The work was written in or about 1905 (MS.21937, folio 32 verso; cf. MS.21939, folio 45).
Dates:
[?1905.]
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.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Operas of G W Crawford.
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.
Interleaved copy of ‘Le bal masqué’ by Edouard Duprez (Paris, 1870), being the French version of the libretto of ‘Un ballo in maschera’ by Verdi containing the mise en scène with detailed stage instructions, ?late 19th century, by G de Beauplan.
Item
Identifier: MS.21853
Dates:
1870, ?late 19th century.
Libretto, allegedly 1822, for an operatic version of "Julia de Reubigné" (1777), a novel by Henry Mackenzie, dramatised E J Powell with music by Miss Kerby.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12845
Dates:
circa 1850-1860.
Libretto and related material of James McLaurin for ‘George and the dragon’ by G W Crawford., [?1905.]
File
Identifier: MS.21937
Scope and Contents
The first version of the libretto of Act I, written apparently in the hand of James McLaurin, with alterations in the same hand, mostly in red ink (folio 1), and a typed copy of the dramatis personae, synopsis of the work and the libretto (as revised) of the entire work, with amendments (mostly brief) and a few additions (some quite large).
Dates:
[?1905.]
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.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Operas of G W Crawford.
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‘George and the dragon’ by G W Crawford, a comic opera in three acts with a libretto by James N McLaurin.
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
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.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Operas of G W Crawford.
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
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.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Operas of G W Crawford.
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Scores and piano reductions of ‘The Grand Lama’, a comic opera in three acts by G W Crawford, with libretto by James N McLaurin.
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.
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
Dates:
1847-1853.
Miscellaneous musical stage works of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21958-21962
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.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
Music of G W Crawford for stage works., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21936-21967
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.
Notebook, undated, containing the words and stage-directions, and the argument, all in W B Moonie's hand, with many amendments, of 'Lucy Ashton', an opera in three acts, dramatized from ‘The bride of Lammermoor’ by Walter Scott., [1969.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21996
Scope and Contents
The work was completed in 1969. The greater part of the notebook is blank.
Dates:
[1969.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
Papers relating to libretti and lyrics of Gavin Ewart., 1955-1995.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12908/32-40
Piano score and part, 1916, of ‘Epitaph’ by G W Crawford, a song scena apparently an expanded setting of words derived from poetry by ‘Morgan Douglas’; followed by the libretto, undated, of ‘Artemis’ by Edward Oxenford., 1916, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21960
Scope and Contents
The libretto is possibly in the hand of Edward Oxenford.
Dates:
1916, undated.
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.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Miscellaneous musical stage works of G W Crawford.
Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21985-22012
Scope and Contents
Some of the scores are incomplete.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
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
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.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Operas of G W Crawford.
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21983-22014
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 20th century, undated.