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1. Add MS 5465

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Add MS 5465
Title:
Collection of vocal music, together with one piece for organ, compiled during the sixteenth century ('Fayrfax Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, A catalogue of manuscript music in the British Museum (London, 1906-9). Vols. i (pp.139-40); ii (pp. 124-5); iii (p.81). Vellum; 16th cent. Small folio. The MS. belonged to Charles Fairfax in 1618, and is said to have been previously in the possession ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Undetermined
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume (135 folios)

2. MS Mus. 1810/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/1
Title:
Franz Wilhelm Abt: Zwei (‘Auf hohem Berge’)
Scope & Content:
Choral song no. 2 for SATB from Abt’s Fünf Chor Gesänge, op. 152. Signed: ‘Franz Abt. Braunschweig, 16/7/61.’ Written in ink on a single sheet with 8 pre-printed staves, blue decorative floral borders and caption at the bottom middle reading: ‘Aus dem Album von Carl Gurckhaus’. Single leaf from ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

3. MS Mus. 1810/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/3
Title:
Thomas Attwood: ‘Fugue in E flat’
Scope & Content:
Published by John E. West in ‘Old English Organ Music’, no. 24, as no. 2 of ‘Two Pieces’ by Attwood, with the title ‘Cathedral Fugue’. Dated 7 July 1826.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

4. MS Mus. 1810/7

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/7
Title:
Béla Bartók, ‘String Quartet no. 1’, Op. 7 (BB 52)
Scope & Content:
Sketch for the first 17 bars of the String Quartet no 1, dated 16 January 1908 and extracted from the ‘Black Pocket-Book’, between the present ff. 8 and 9. (for the facsimile edition of 1987, see British Library, a.264.). On 7, 9 and 14 January Bartók had described his feelings at his rejection...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

5. MS Mus. 1810/8

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/8
Title:
Sir Arnold Bax: Music for the film ‘Oliver Twist’ (1948), directed by David Lean
Scope & Content:
Sir Arnold Bax: music for the film ‘Oliver Twist’ (director David Lean); 1948. Full score. With a detailed music cue sheet, and dossier regarding the contractual rights and obligations of those involved in the production, both typewritten The manuscript comprises some 80% of the music for the fi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
1 file

6. MS Mus. 1810/10

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/10
Title:
Sir Julius Benedict: ‘Symphony in C’
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1500-2015
Extent:
1 file

7. MS Mus. 1810/13

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/13
Title:
Luciano Berio: ‘Sequenza X per tromba in do (e risonanze di pianoforte)’
Scope & Content:
A single leaf of a draft corresponding approximately to the passage from page 8, system 3 to page 10, system 2 in the published score. Sold for charity, and signed and dated by the composer for that purpose.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

8. MS Mus. 1810/14

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/14
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: ‘Three Piano Pieces’
Scope & Content:
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley: Copy of his Three Piano Pieces, composed in 1927, with autograph signature, dated 1929, so probably made for Jan Smeterlin, who performed them in that year.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

9. MS Mus. 1810/15

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/15
Title:
Hector Berlioz: ‘Quel contretemps facheux le Cardinal’, recitative from Benvenuto Cellini
Scope & Content:
Leaf containing a discarded recitative from Benvenuto Cellini, ‘Quel contretemps facheux le Cardinal’. Full score. Undated. Autograph score in ink. 28 staves. Signed by the composer.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1834-1837
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

10. MS Mus. 1810/16

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/16
Title:
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop: ‘Grand March’ for piano
Scope & Content:
Grand March for piano. With Bishop’s inscription on the title page: ‘Composed for & presented to the Royal Society of Musicians, London’. Dated: May 1827. Published in 1867 in an organ arrangement by W. J. Westbrook.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)