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 51 Collections and/or Records:
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 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.
Miscellany of music.
File
Identifier: MS.21850
Scope and Contents
The material consists of:(i) A setting, 1772, for voice and piano by John Collett of 'An ode in honour of the birthday of Andrew Crosbie' by John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn (folio 1);(ii) A copy, in an early nineteenth-century (apparently contemporary) hand, of Karl Czerny, 'Choix de Walses brillantes et faciles pour le piano-forte' (folio 11);(iii) A full score, in an apparently late eighteenth-century hand, of the aria 'Son confusa pastorella' from the...
Dates:
1745-early 19th century.
Music and other papers of John Davidson and James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22076-22077
Dates:
1896, 1917, 1922, undated.
Music of Robert Crawford for string quartet.
File
Identifier: MS.21975
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Autograph draft of String Quartet Number 1, opus 4 (folio 1), apparently begun in 1948 and completed in 1950 (folio 34 verso). The quartet was published in 1953. The music at folios 1-15 corresponds to the first two movements and that at folios 16-18, 19 to pages 17-19, 22-23 of the 3rd movement in the published score. The music at folios 20-30 seems to form no part of the published score, whilst that at folios 31-34, which is numbered 6, appears...
Dates:
1948-1957.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22022-22075
Dates:
1871-1926, undated.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Dates:
Mid 20th century-1988, undated.
Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3199-3216
Dates:
Late 19th century-1909.
Orchestral, vocal and other music scores of Ian Whyte, and papers and music of his son, Don Whyte, chiefly undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22082-22094
Scope and Contents
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:
1947-1960, undated.
Original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn.
File
Identifier: MS.3365
Scope and Contents
The ballad is preceded by a version, in Hamish MacCunn's hand, of the verse ballad that inspired the music, i.e., 'The Daemon Lover', number 243 of ‘The English and Scottish popular ballads’. A pencilled note records two performances in 1888.
Dates:
[1888, or before.]
Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21551-21561
Scope and Contents
D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...
Dates:
1902-1970.
Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6878 Box 1(1)-Box 13(30)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.
Dates:
1933-1961, undated.
Papers of John Maxwell Geddes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14147
Content Description
John Maxwell Geddes, composer, was born in Glasgow on 26 May 1941, the son of John ('Jack') Drummond Geddes and Thomasina Geddes, née Maxwell. He grew up in the Maryhill area of Glasgow and attended Woodside Secondary School and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). He also studied with the Danish pianist and composer Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) in Copenhagen.Geddes was awarded the fellowship of the RSAMD, the Creative...
Dates:
1951-2018.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
17th century-1972.
Papers of the Piobaireachd Society, including correspondence and papers of Archibald Graham Kenneth (Archie Kenneth).
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14539
Content Description
Further papers of the Piobaireachd Society, containing Society business files and a small number of manuscripts and printed books belonging to the Society. The largest part of this collection is formed by the correspondence and papers of Archibald Graham Kenneth (Archie Kenneth), including correspondence with his friend James Campbell, son of Archibald Campbell of Kilberry (1916-2003), and others; papers concerning his editions of some of the Piobaireachd Society music...
Dates:
1940s-1980s.
Photocopies of autograph scores of four choral works by Shena Fraser.
File
Identifier: MS.22147
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'Carillon’, a choral suite for women's or school choir and keyboard, 1956, which was published in 1958 (folio 1);(ii) 'To him give praise’, a choral suite for women's voices, strings and piano, 1959, which was published 1960 (folio 49);(iii) 'I saw a fair maiden’, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, with tenor solo, which was published 1965 (folio 75); (iv) 'A quartette of carols', for treble voices and piano,...
Dates:
1956-[1965, or before], undated.
Photocopy of the autograph score of ‘Five preludes for piano from a Brittany sketch book', an apparently unpublished work, undated, by Isobel V S Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: MS.22146
Dates:
?Mid 20th century.
Score and parts, undated, in the composer's hand, of 'Listy z Dálky' by Miroslav Krejčí, for two clarinets, basset horn and bass clarinet, Opus 63.
File
Identifier: MS.21865
Dates:
[?1938.]
Score of ‘Acis and Galatea’ by George Frideric Handel; with 'additional accompaniments composed expressly by M. Costa, for the Birmingham Musical Festival, 1858 And presented by him for the Benefit of the General Hospital'.
Item
Identifier: MS.21846
Scope and Contents
Sir Michael Costa conducted the Birmingham Festival from 1849 to 1882 and as conductor of the Sacred Harmonic Society he directed the Handel Festivals from 1857 to 1880.
The score is complete, apart from the omission of 'Cease to beauty to be suing' and 'Consider fond shepherd', with additional parts chiefly for woodwind and strings.
Dates:
1858.
Scores of John Purser's Opus 7 for Orchestra, 1964, and of the first movement of his Viola Concerto, undated, and sheets containing unidentified sketches, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22017
Dates:
1964, undated.
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.
Scores of two apparently unpublished works by Norman Fulton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22148-22149
Dates:
1950-1951.
Sketch, with corrections and additions, and fair copy of Romance in F minor for full orchestra by Robert McLeod.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21981-21982
Dates:
1935-1936.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7151-7170
Scope and Contents
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.
Dates:
1907-1908.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21881-21974
Scope and Contents
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, undated.