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1901. Add MS 47862

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MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XXIII (ff. 37). Miscellaneous music copied from printed editions by E. H. W. Meyerstein; 20th cent. Originally three notebooks with Meyerstein's signature and comments on the covers. Contents mainly piano music by John Field including the piano sonatas in C minor, op. 1,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1 item

1902. Add MS 47894

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FRANZ ANTON RÖSLER al. Rosetti (b. 1750, d. 1792): concerto in B flat for bassoon with accompaniments for oboes, horns and strings, in three movements, Allegro Spiritoso, Romance (Adagio) and Rondo (Allegretto); late 18th cent. In parts. The name 'Berwald' on the original paper cover 'f. 1) may refer to a member, possibly the bassoonist, Georg Johann Abraham Berwald, of the Berwald family of musicians connected with the court of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Ludwigslust where Rösler wa...
Scope & Content:
Franz Anton Rösler, composer: Bassoon concerto: late 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

1903. Add MS 47895

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LIBRETTO BY RICHARD ALEXANDER STREATFEILD for 'The Pilgrim's Progress', a symphonic drama founded on Bunyan's allegory; bef. 1914 (cf. f. 44). Typewritten (ff. 1-39), with manuscript notes by the author relating to a proposed musical setting (ff. 40-43). Letters, 1914-1934, from Norman Wilkinson, William Barclay Squire, Mrs Streatfeild and Mrs Carice Irene Blake relating to the libretto and a possible setting by Sir Edward Elgar (cf. the note by him, f. 50) are at ff. 44-52. A second typewri...
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includes: ff. 1, 50 Sir Edward William Elgar, Baronet; OM; composer: Annotations by: 1920.ff. 1-39 Richard Alexander Streatfeild, musicologist; of the British Museum: Libretto, etc., for 'The Pilgrim's Progress': bef. 1914.: Mostly typewritten.ff. 1-39 Music: R. A. Streatfeild, libretto, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1914
Extent:
1 item

1904. Add MS 47898

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SIR WILLIAM WALTON: 'Te Deum Laudamus' in D for double chorus, semi-chorus, organ and orchestra 'set to music for The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey June 2nd 1953'. Autograph. Full score, written in pencil, with English text. On f. 25 is a discarded draft of the section before 'When thou tookest upon thee' (cf. f. 15). Published, in vocal score, by Oxford University Press, 1953. Paper; ff. 25. Large folio. A.D. 1953. Presented kv the composer.
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Sir William Turner Walton, OM; composer: 'Te Deum': 1953.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1953
Extent:
1 item

1905. Add MS 47900-47908

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Edward Elgar: Sketches and drafts of musical compositions
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Mostly autograph. The collection includes a few copies of words, etc., in the hand of Lady Elgar. Notes by Elgar's daughter, Mrs Carice Irene Blake, and Harold L. Brooke of Novello & Co., relating to their preliminary arrangement of the collection before it came to the Department, are bound ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1889-1933
Extent:
15 volumes

1906. Add MS 47900 A

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Edward Elgar: Manuscript sketches and drafts, Vol. 1
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Sketch material for op. 13, no. 2-op. 29, as follows:- ff. 1-2v. Sketch (ff. 2-2v) of the end of 'Bizarrerie', op. 13, no. 2, for violin and piano. Composed in 1889. Published by Orsborn and Tuckwood, 1890, and Ascherberg, 1890. ff. 3-12v. Sketches of the Introduction (ff. 4v-5), no. 3 (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1889-1896
Extent:
1 volume (225 folios)

1907. Add MS 47900 B

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Edward Elgar: Manuscript sketches and drafts, Vol. 2
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Printed copies (Novello octavo editions) of:- (1) The Black Knight, op, 25, 1893. ff. 1-38;-(2) The Snow and Fly, Singing Bird, op. 26, nos. 1 and 2, 1895. ff. 39-52;-(3) The Light of Life, op. 29, 1896. ff. 53-98.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1895
Extent:
1 volume (98 folios)

1908. Add MS 47901 A

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Edward Elgar: Manuscript sketches and drafts, Vols. 3-4
Scope & Content:
'The Banner of Saint George', op. 33, and 'Caractacus', op. 35. As follows:- ff. 1-85. 'The Banner of Saint George' op. 33, ballad for chorus and orchestra to words by S. Wensley. Composed circ. 1895 (Kennedy, op. cit., p. 283). Published by Novello, 1897. Two sets of sketches, the first (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1890-1900
Extent:

2 volumes (ff. 1-159, 160-347)

1909. Add MS 47901 B

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Title:
Edward Elgar: Manuscript sketches and drafts, Vol. 5
Scope & Content:
Printed copy (Novello octavo edition) of Caractacus, op. 35, 1898.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898
Extent:
1 volume (106 folios)

1910. Add MS 47902

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Title:
Edward Elgar: Manuscript sketches and drafts, Vol. 6
Scope & Content:
'Sea-Pictures', op. 37, and 'The Dream of Gerontius', op. 38. As follows:- ff. 1-31v. 'Sea-Pictures', op. 37, cycle of five songs for contralto and orchestra. Completed in 1899. Published by Boosey, 1900. As follows:-(a) 'Sea Slumber Song'. ff. 2-10;-(b) 'In Haven (Capri)', copy in the hand of...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899-1900
Extent:
1 volume (302 folios)

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