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 264 Collections and/or Records:
‘Nocturne for string orchestra, to the memory of Dylan Thomas’, undated, by Ronald Center., [Circa 1953.]
Item
Identifier: MS.22177
Scope and Contents
The nocturne is undated, but doubtless circa 1953.
Dates:
[Circa 1953.]
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.
Orchestral and band music of David Stephen., 1913-1940, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22155-22156
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Dates:
1913-1940, undated.
Orchestral and band music of David Stephen., 1927-1940, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22155
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Short score, with instrumentation indicated in red ink, of 'Sinfonietta', an orchestral work in three movements, 1927-1928 (folio 1);
(ii) Full score of 'A Scottish pastoral', an orchestral work in one movement, 1940 (folio 15);
(iii) Full score of 'In honorem' a work in one movement for band (folio 25), undated but would appear to have been composed during or shortly after the First World War.
Dates:
1927-1940, undated.
Orchestral music of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21881-21910
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.
Orchestral music of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22082-22084
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:
Mid 20th century.
Orchestral parts of the Triumphal march from the Second Suite in C major, and draft full score of the first section of ‘At the ball’, by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
File
Identifier: MS.21905
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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Orchestral music of G W Crawford.
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Miscellaneous orchestral music of G W Crawford.
Orchestral, vocal and other music scores of Ian Whyte., 1947-1951, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22082-22093
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:
1947-1951, undated.
Original and revised autograph settings by Robin Orr of "The Kimmers o' Cougate", a song from Sydney Goodsir Smith's play 'Colickie Meg', preceded by a letter of the composer presenting the setting to the donor., 1955.
File
Identifier: MS.22016, folios 1-3
Overture to ‘Cardinal Beaton’, a drama by W Roberton, arranged by G W Crawford for brass band., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21934
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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Brass and military band compositions and arrangements by G W Crawford.
Parts and score of the piano quintet in G by W B Moonie., 1918.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21627-21631
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:
1918.
Parts for piano (conductor) and full score of numbers 2-4 of an arrangement for the BBC Octet of the orchestral suite, undated, 'Land of the heather’., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21995
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Some of the scores are incomplete.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
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.
Photocopy of the autograph orchestral score of 'llaia, May 1873' by Charles François Gounod, a setting of a poem on David Livingstone's death by R M Milnes, Baron Houghton, with a note by the composer, 1874., 1873, 1874.
File
Identifier: MS.10755
Dates:
1873, 1874.
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.
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Miscellaneous items of and concerning David Livingstone.
Piano reduction and reduction of wind parts of 'Undine' by G W Crawford., [1939.]
File
Identifier: MS.21894
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:
[1939.]
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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Orchestral music of G W Crawford.
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Symphonic poems of G W Crawford.
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Full score and reductions of ‘Undine’ by G W Crawford.
Piano reductions and full score of selections of ’The duenna’ by G W Crawford, [?1892-?1941.]
File
Identifier: MS.21947
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Piano reduction of overture (folio 1);
(ii) Piano reduction of introduction and songs in act I (folio 11);
(iii) Piano reduction of a selection (folio 23);
(iv) Full score of a selection (folio 35).
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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Full scores and piano reductions of ’The duenna’ by G W Crawford, a comic opera in three acts using Sheridan’s play as the libretto.
Piano solos, chiefly undated, of Ronald Center, arranged in alphabetical order as far as possible., 1940, 1942, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22171
Scope and Contents
Apart from folios 37 and 38 verso, dated 1940 and 1942 respectively, the pieces are undated.
Dates:
1940, 1942, undated.
'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson, music composed by Learmont Drysdale': orchestral score., [Circa 1894.]
File
Identifier: MS.3204
Dates:
[Circa 1894.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph.
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'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson.' Vocal and orchestral scores by Learmont Drysdale, with a 'sketch score'.
'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson, music composed by Learmont Drysdale': sketch score., [Circa 1894.]
File
Identifier: MS.3205
Dates:
[Circa 1894.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph.
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'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson.' Vocal and orchestral scores by Learmont Drysdale, with a 'sketch score'.
'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson, music composed by Learmont Drysdale': vocal score., [Circa 1894.]
File
Identifier: MS.3203
Dates:
[Circa 1894.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph.
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'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson.' Vocal and orchestral scores by Learmont Drysdale, with a 'sketch score'.
'"Plague". A mystical musical play in one act, words by Ian Robertson.' Vocal and orchestral scores by Learmont Drysdale, with a 'sketch score'., [Circa 1894.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3203-3205
‘Portions’, possibly drafts, of the full score of an overture in A minor by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
File
Identifier: MS.21901
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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Orchestral music of G W Crawford.
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Overtures of G W Crawford.
Printed music books and scores., 4th quarter of 19th century - 1st quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/1093
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century - 1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Printed Works of, or belonging to, the Forbes, Stuart Forbes, and Trefusis Families.
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Miscellaneous printed music books and scores.
Printed music books and scores., 4th quarter of 19th century - 1st quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/1094
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century - 1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Printed Works of, or belonging to, the Forbes, Stuart Forbes, and Trefusis Families.
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Miscellaneous printed music books and scores.
Printed music books and scores., 4th quarter of 19th century - 1st quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/1095
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century - 1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Printed Works of, or belonging to, the Forbes, Stuart Forbes, and Trefusis Families.
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Miscellaneous printed music books and scores.
Psalm settings by Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.22088
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Psalm 40: for soprano solo, chorus and orchestra, in rough full score with two fair copies in full score of the opening (folio 1);(ii) Psalm 42: draft setting for solo voice and keyboard (folio 23);(iii) Psalm 67: for chorus, harp, piano, organ and timpani, short score of the opening (folio 27);(iv) Psalm 121: apparently for solo chorus, draft of beginning (folio 31);(vi) Psalm 137: for chorus and...
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
'Quive il corse nudo il chiedi', 'Aria a canto solo con violino unissono', with figured bass, in score, with a separate violin part., [?1717.]
File
Identifier: MS.9475
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.9447-9458 consist of Scottish and English music, and French lute music, all dating from before 1675. MSS.9459-9469 consist of French music brought to Scotland by James and Harie Maule after their visits to France between 1678 and 1683. MSS.9470-9475 are opera scores and parts acquired by James Maule when in exile in Italy after the 1715 rising.
Dates:
[?1717.]