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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70772
Title:
Scope & Content:: CARDEW COLLECTION. Vol. xlvi. Songs mainly by other composers. ff. 71. Overall size 361 x 252mm. 1. f. 1. Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Va pensiero’ from ‘Nabucco’, melody only with words and chord symbols; [1972?]. Pencil and ink. Headed ‘Chorus of Hebrew Slaves’. For the arrangement used in Cardew’s ‘Col...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1971-1978
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70783
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. i (ff. 139). Abrahamsen - Martland. includes: f. 1 Art. Portraits: Hans Abrahamsen, composer: Photograph of H. Abrahamsen with M. Vyner: 1982. ff. 2-4 Hans Abrahamsen, composer: Letters to M. Vyner from Hans Abrahamsen: 1985-1987: Partly signed. ff. 5-6 John Coolidge Adams, composer: Lett...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1946-1989
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70783-70784
Title:: MICHAEL VYNER PAPERS. Vols. i, ii. Letters to Vyner; 1946, 1948, 1968-1989. Arranged alphabetically by writer. Among the principal correspondents are George Benjamin, Elliott Carter, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Werner Henze, Robin Holloway, Steve Martland, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sir Michael Tippett and Sir William Walton. With two letters from Paul Hindemith to an unidentified correspondent. Two volumes. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1946-1989
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70783-70786
Title:: MICHAEL VYNER PAPERS: correspondence and papers of Michael Vyner (b.1943, d.1989); 1946, 1948, 1968-1989. The major part of the collection relates to Vyner’s activities as Musical Director of the London Sinfonietta from 1972; most earlier items date from his period working for the music publishers Schott & Co. Purchased at Sotheby’s, 17 May 1990, lots 287-297. Paper. Four volumes.
Scope & Content:: Michael Vyner, music administrator: Letters and papers of Michael Vyner: 1946-1989. London Sinfonietta: Correspondence and papers of M. Vyner as Musical Director of London Sinfonietta: 1968-1989: Partly Fr., Germ., Russ: Partly printed. Partly copies. Partly signed.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Russian
Date Range:: 1946-1989
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70920-70925
Title:: J. W. DAVISON PAPERS: letters to James William Davison (b.1813, d.1885), sometime editor of The Musical World and music critic of The Times; 1828-1914, n.d. Some of the letters are published in Henry Davison, Music during the Victorian Era: being the Memoirs of J. W. Davison (1912), though many of the other letters reproduced there are not present in this collection. See also Charles Reid, The Music Monster (1984). Purchased from Richard Macnutt Ltd., 5 Sept. 1989. Paper. Six volumes. Briti...
Scope & Content:: James William Davison, music critic: Letters from various correspondents and related material: 1828-1914, n.d.: Partly Fr., Germ., Ital: Partly printed. Partly copies and imperf.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1828-1914
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70925
Title:
Scope & Content:: J. W. DAVISON PAPERS. Vol. vi. Letters from unidentified correspondents and miscellaneous papers relating to J. W. Davison and other members of the Davison family; 1854-1914, n.d. ff. 155. 1. ff. 1-19. Letters to J. W. Davison from unidentified correspondents; 1855-1877, n.d. 2. ff. 20-26. Dr...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1815-1914
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71010-71064
Title:: ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION PAPERS: minutes, official papers and correspondence of the Royal Musical Association; 1874-1971, n.d. The Association was founded in 1874 as the Musical Association ‘for the investigation and discussion of subjects connected with the art, science and history of music’ and became the Royal Musical Association in 1944. Accounts of the Association’s history are given in J. P. Baker, ‘The Musical Association: a Fifty Year Retrospect’, Proceedings of the Musical Associat...
Scope & Content:: Royal Musical Association: Papers of Royal Musical Association: 1874-1983, n.d: Partly Fr. and Germ.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1874-1971
Extent:: 55 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71036
Title:
Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION PAPERS. Vol. xxvii (ff. 134). Early letters to the Association; 1898-1913, n.d. Principally letters and submissions to Council from Charles Maclean. includes: ff. 1-127 Charles Donald Maclean, of the Indian civil service; composer: Letters and papers on behalf of th...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1898-1913
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71036-71064
Title:: B. Correspondence 71036-71064. ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION PAPERS. Vols. xxviii-lv. Letters to the Association; 1898-1913, circa 1950-1971, n.d. Apart from the letters in Add. 71036 and the papers relating to the subcommittees in Add. 56236 and Add. 59760, no correspondence earlier than about 1950 appears to have survived. 25 volumes.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1898-1971
Extent:: 29 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71037-71064
Title:: ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION PAPERS. Vols. xxviii-lv. Letters to the Association; circa 1950-1971, n.d. Partly typewritten, with copies of the Association’s replies in a few instances. Arranged alphabetically by writer. Includes letters to the Secretary relating to papers read at meetings; correspondence between the various officers of the Association (variously President, Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, editors of publications etc.); applications for grants; applications for membership; corresp...
Scope & Content:: Royal Musical Association: Correspondence: 1946-1970.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: c 1950-1971
Extent:: 28 items

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