HERSCHEL SYMPHONIES. Vols. I-III. Symphonies nos. 1-18; 1760-1762. Full scores. Fair copies. For Herschel's own account of their contents, aft. 1793, see Dreyer, op.cit., i, pp. xvii-xviii. Half-leather bindings with marbled boards, executed during Herschel's lifetime.
HERSCHEL SYMPHONIES. Vols. V-IX. Parts for Symphonies nos. 2-24 and full score of no. 19; 1760-1764. With the score and with each set of parts is the original wrapper, giving the title, date, number, musical incipit, and sometimes scoring of each symphony. The parts of the symphonies for larger orchestra include additional or alternative instruments not indicated in the full scores.
J. L. STEPHEN COLLECTION. Vols. II-IV. Notebooks recording details of pianos Stephen worked on, general observations on action, stringing, frames, case-work, polishing, etc., often derived from conversations with other makers or repairers, and notes from published works. Illustrated with sketches of details of actions, frames and case-work, photographs of frames and pencil rubbings of the arrangement of pins in the wrest plank of some instruments. Each volume is preceded by an index. Half ...
ROEDIGER COLLECTION. Vols. II-IV. Description and thematic catalogue of Erlangen MSS. 473/1-4, formerly 791-794, comprising sacred vocal music collected, 1541-8, by Johann Hartung (d. 1554), Chief Justice of the Monastic Courts of Heilsbronn, Bavaria. See Fischer, op. cit., ii, pp. 55-8, 587-9, and G. Muck, Geschichte von Kloster Heilsbronn, i, Nördlingen, 1879, pp. 268-73.
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Ludwig Senfl, Kapellmeister to Maximilian I: Thematic indices to his works in J. Hartung's Choirbooks: 1926-1948. Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer: Thematic indices to his works in J. Hartung's Choirbooks,: 1926-1948. Balthasar Resinarius, German composer: Thematic indices to his works i...
FRASER-SIMSON MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. I-IV. 'Bonita': comic opera in a prologue and two acts, book and lyrics by Wadham Peacock; circa 1911-1914. First performed at the Queen's Theatre, London, 22 Sept. 1911. Vocal score published 1911. Four volumes.
FRASER-SIMSON MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. VII, VIII. 'Our Peg': musical comedy in three acts, book by Edward Knoblock and lyrics by Harry Graham. First performed at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester, 24 Dec. 1919. Eight vocal numbers published 1919, 1920; the complete vocal score 1928. Some numbers reused in 'Our Nell', to a book by Louis N. Parker and Reginald Arkell and with additional numbers by Ivor Novello, produced at the Gaiety Theatre, London, 16 Apr. 1924. Six of the Fraser-Simson numbers fro...
FRASER-SIMSON MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XII-XIV. 'A Venetian Wedding': ballet in one act to a scenario by Louis N. Parker; circa 1926. Red cloth bindings, gilt-stamped.
FRASER-SIMSON MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XV, XVI. 'The Night-ingale and the Rose': ballet in one act to a scenario by Patrick Healey-Kay, al. 'Anton Dolin'; bef. 1927. Copies. Red cloth bindings, gilt-stamped.
FRASER-SIMSON MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XVII A, B. 'Toad of Toad Hall': incidental music to the play by A. A. Milne drawn from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. First performed at the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, 21 Dec. 1929. Vocal score published London, 1929. Single additional numbers published 1930, 1932.