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:
Heavily corrected setting for voices and piano, interleaved with a fair copy of the full score of a setting for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, of the ballad 'Sir Patrick Spans' by David Stephen., 1920.
File
Identifier: MS.22154
Scope and Contents
Apparently composed, or completed, in 1920, according to a deleted note at folio 48. The orchestral accompaniment in short score was published the same year.
An anglicized printed copy of the ballad, with numerous amendments in ink restoring the original Scots words, is at folio 2.
Many substantial corrections to the keyboard version are written on fragments of paper pasted to the leaves, and folio 28 is an addition written on a scrap of paper tipped in.
Dates:
1920.
'Hebridean suite' by John Davidson., [?1871-?1926.]
Item
Identifier: MS.22062
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
John Davidson, a member of the family of J & A Davidson, coal merchants and shipping agents, Aberdeen, was an amateur musician and composer. His preferred medium appears to have been the string quartet, but he composed and arranged pieces also for other combinations of instruments, chiefly strings. A number of pieces appear in more than one form. The collection contains both full scores and parts.The earliest and latest dates discernible are 1871 and 1926, but almost...
Dates:
[?1871-?1926.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
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Musical compositions and other papers, chiefly undated, of John Davidson.
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Music of John Davidson for piano.
Incidental music of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21963-21967
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.]
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.
“Invernessshire grand march compos’d expressly for, and dedicated (by permission) to Lt.-Col. Duff. By M[ichael] Kelly”, arranged in full military band score.
Item
Identifier: MS.809
Dates:
[Circa 1801.]
John Rose, full score of "Spem in alium".
Item
Identifier: Acc.13935
Content Description
Full score including choir part. Entitled "Spem in alium nunquam habui, motet for chorus (dir.), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tympani (4) and organ". In the composer's hand, with corrections. Paginated by him, 2-42. Dated at end: 12th June 2001.
Dates:
12 June 2001
Lachrimae for string orchestra, undated, by Ronald Center., Mid 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.22176
Scope and Contents
The work was previously entitled 'Requiem for an artist’.
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
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Musical compositions of Ronald Center.
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Final versions of musical compositions of Ronald Center.
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Music for string orchestra by Ronald Center.
Letter, 1916, of William Wallace concerning his symphonic poem 'Villon', with the first page of the full score, [1909].
File
Identifier: MS.22081
Dates:
[1909], 1916.
Letter, 1960, to Don Whyte, returning him a script, 1949, of a broadcast; and music, undated, of pieces composed or arranged by Whyte used in Children's Hour broadcasts., 1949, 1960, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22094
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Apart from the film music, which is datable to 1947-1948 from the accompanying correspondence and papers (MSS.22085-22086), almost all the music is undated; but from the ink used, some of it may be dated to about the same period.
Except where otherwise stated the music is written as for keyboard.
Dates:
1949, 1960, undated.
List of thirty-one Scots songs, both traditional ballads and poems by Burns and other authors, followed by arrangements of twenty-nine of them by David Stephen., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.22161
Scope and Contents
The arrangements are marked ‘second copies’ and have tonic sol-fa notation added in red.
The compilation was made for a tenor album, which does not appear to have been published, of ‘Folk songs of Scotland’ edited by David Stephen and Robert Burnett.
Dates:
Early 20th century.
‘Lochinvar’ by G W Crawford, a setting for chorus and orchestra., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21920
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.
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Music for voices by G W Crawford.
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Choral music of G W Crawford.
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Arrangements of "A Scottish Cantata or Choral-Ballad ‘Lochinvar’" by G W Crawford, being settings of the poem by Sir Walter Scott.
Manuscript full orchestral score by Norman O'Neill for the complete play of ‘The last heir’ by Stephen Phillips., 1907-1908.
Item
Identifier: MS.7170
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.
Dates:
1907-1908.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Successive typescript texts, fragmentary notes, and revisions of 'The last heir', a dramatization, in four acts, of ‘The bride of Lammermoor’ by Sir Walter Scott, made for Sir John Martin-Harvey by Stephen Phillips; together with an orchestral score by Norman O'Neill.
Manuscript, 'Melody for orchestra', by Learmont Drysdale; the full score in separate parts., [Before 1910.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3208
Manuscript music belonging to the Edinburgh Harmonists’ Society, including some written specifically for it., 1810-1921, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21664
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Autograph score of 'Weep you no more', by A T Lee Ashton, 1905 (folio 1);Score and parts of 'Balmy sweetness', by John Bayley, undated (folio 5);Copies, [circa 1900], of 'Mirth and social glee', undated, and 'Hail bounteous nature', by Thomas Cooke, 1829 (folio 10);Parts of 'Bells of eve', by [? Charles Leon Francois] Kreutzer, undated (folio 29);Score of 'King Canute' by Sir George A Macfarren, 1873...
Dates:
1810-1921, undated.
Manuscript, 'Trio in F for piano, clarinet and bassoon', by Learmont Drysdale: score and revisions., [Before 1910.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3210
Manuscripts and typescripts of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1934-1974.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10397/3-27
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.
Dates:
1934-1974.
Manuscripts in the Cecil Hopkinson Collection of Hector Berlioz.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3428-3429
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Marches and dances arranged for string quartet followed by two songs for voices and piano by John Davidson., [?1871-?1926.]
File
Identifier: MS.22028
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Marches and dances arranged for string quartet (folio 1);
(ii) Two songs for voices and piano (folio 19 verso), the second of which is dated 1908 (folio 21 verso).
It is not clear whether the covers belong to the leaves. Folios 17-22 are additions, stitched to the rest of the volume.
Dates:
[?1871-?1926.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
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Musical compositions and other papers, chiefly undated, of John Davidson.
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Music of John Davidson chiefly for string quartet.
‘Margherita waltz’, opus 7, by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21930
Scope and Contents
333 x 260 millimetres.
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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Ballet and dance music for orchestra by G W Crawford.
Melody 'The dead heart' by James Scott Skinner, composed for and presented to Miss Lizzie Cox Colville, music saleswoman, Dundee., 1909.
Item
Identifier: MS.22078, folio 49 verso
Microfilm of autograph score of the overture “Tam o' Shanter”, Opus 51, by Malcolm Arnold, bearing several marks from use in performance.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1023
Dates:
1955.
Miscellaneous collection of instrumental music by Learmont Drysdale., [1893-1898.]
File
Identifier: MS.3212
Scope and Contents
Includes a piano score of the overture 'Herondean' (folio 32), a Maypole dance from 'The Red Spider' (folio 3), and duplicates of MS.3207: Ballade, for violin and piano (folio 9).
Dates:
[1893-1898.]
Miscellaneous collection of music, and of lectures and writings (many fragmentary) on music, and on Scottish music in particular, by Francis George Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22019-22020
Dates:
1913-1951, undated.
Miscellaneous items of and concerning David Livingstone., 1825-1874, 1956.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10753-10756
Dates:
1825-1874, 1956.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Miscellaneous music of W B Moonie., 1915, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22010
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) A setting, different from that in MS.22009, for violin and piano, of the anonymous Scottish ballad 'Edward! Edward!', 1915. (Folio 1).(ii) A setting for voice and piano of Herrick's 'Glide, gentle stream'. (Folio 8).(iii) A setting of George Scott Moncrieff's 'Song of Roland'. (Folio 12).(iv) Pieces numbered 2-5 of an unidentified work, or arrangement, for piano. (Folio 16).(v) A setting of 'Woodland...
Dates:
1915, undated.
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.
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.]
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.