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 11 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.
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.
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Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).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.
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 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.
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.
Typescript copy of the libretto for the musical comedy, "Happy End", lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill, as performed by the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4027
Dates:
1964.
Typescript libretto and manuscript musical sketches for opera of Learmont Drysdale, "Flora Macdonald".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4694
Scope and Contents
With manuscript arrangements of eight Scots songs.
Dates:
circa 1903.