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Scores.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Original and entire drafts or transcripts of musical compositions or arrangements, typically with the parts of all the different instruments or voices written on staffs one above another, so that they can be read at a glance. Also, musical compositions recorded as a distribution of the parts (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1933).

Found in 315 Collections and/or Records:

Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.

 File
Identifier: MS.22151
Scope and Contents

A leaf is torn out after folio 16.

What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.

Dates: 1969.

Autograph musical scores of David Dorward containing sketches and some final versions of works for various combinations of instruments, including voices.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22144-22145
Scope and Contents

Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.

Dates: 1961, 1967, undated.

Autograph score, 1953, of ‘Sonata for violoncello and piano’ by Hans Gál.

 Item
Identifier: MS.22150
Scope and Contents

The score bears a few corrections, one of which is written on a scrap of paper (folio 13) pasted to folio 14. Folio 15 consists of two leaves pasted together.

Dates: 1953.

Autograph score of 'Quintet No 1' for pianoforte and strings by Cyril Scott.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21861
Scope and Contents

Apparently unpublished, this is not the ‘Quintet’ published, 1926, as part of the Carnegie collection of British Music.

A leaf is cut out after folio 6 and a few more after folios 49.

Dates: 1900.

Autograph score of 'Two invocations for tenor and piano', opus 25, by John Joubert, with amendments in coloured inks.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21976
Scope and Contents

Settings of 'To winter' (folio 2) and 'To spring' (folio 9) by William Blake.

The work was published in 1960 and received its Scottish premiere at the National Library of Scotland, 28 August 1969.

Dates: 1953.

Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22153-22162
Scope and Contents

Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.

Dates: 1899-1943, undated.

Berlioz's marked copy of a printed score of ‘Iphigénie en Tauride’ by Christoph Willibald von Gluck ([?Paris, ?1779]).

 Item
Identifier: MS.21852
Scope and Contents

The copy is imperfect, lacking the title page. In addition to the amendments of Berlioz to instrumentation and dynamics, strips of blue paper on which is written an Italian version of the libretto are pasted to the printed pages, covering the French libretto, through the greater part of the volume. The paper covers in which the volume was previously enclosed are bound in at the back (folios i-iv).

Dates: [?1779, ?1779, or after.]