Collection Area: Music Collections / Level: [37] SubSeries - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50443-50444
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. LXXXIII, LXXXIV. Mass in G minor for soloists and double chorus, with optional organ part; probably composed 1920-1921. Latin. Autograph. First performed at Birmingham Town Hall, 6 Dec. 1922. Vocal score published 1922. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 98-9; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 218-20.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1920-1921
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50445-50446
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. LXXXV, LXXXVI. 'The Holy City' al. 'Sancta Civitas', oratorio for tenor and baritone, chorus, semi-chorus, distant chorus and orchestra; composed 1923-1925. Autograph. First performed at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 7 May 1926. Vocal score published 1925. An early manuscript vocal score is in the Bodleian Library. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 115-16; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 238-45.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1923-1925
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50451-50452
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XCI, XCII. 'Magnificat', set for contralto, women's chorus, flute and orchestra. Full scores. Latin. First performed at the Three Choirs Festival, Worcester Cathedral, 8 Sept. 1932. Vocal score published 1932. Kennedy, 1982, p. 149; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 222-4. Large folio.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1932
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50453-50454
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XCIII, XCIV. 'Dona nobis pacem', setting of the 'Agnus Dei', and English words from various sources, as a cantata for soprano and baritone, chorus and orchestra. Partly Latin. First performed at Huddersfield Town Hall, 2 Oct. 1936. Vocal score published 1936, full score 1971. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 167-8; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 231-3.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1936
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50455-50457
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XCV-XCVII. 'Five Tudor Portraits', suite in five movements for contralto, baritone, chorus and orchestra; completed 1935. Words by John Skelton. First performed at the Norwich Festival, St Andrew's Hall, Norwich, 25 Sept. 1936. Vocal score published 1935, full score 1971. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 162-4; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 224-31.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50460 A-B
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. C A, B. 'Flourish for a Coronation', for chorus and orchestra. Autograph. First performed at the Queen's Hall, London, 1 Apr. 1937. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 169-70.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1937
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50462-50463
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. CII, CIII. 'Six Choral Songs', for unison voices with piano or orchestra. Words by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Autograph, except as noted. First performed at a B.B.C. broadcast concert, 20 Dec. 1940. Vocal score published 1940. Kennedy, 1982, p. 178; Dickinson, 1963, p. 461.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1940
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50470-50472
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. CX-CXII. 'The Sons of Light', cantata for chorus and orchestra; composed 1950. Words by Ursula Wood. First performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 6 May 1951. Vocal score published 1951. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 202-3; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 463-4. See also 50478, which is based on this cantata.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1950
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50473-50474
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. CXIII, CXIV. 'An Oxford Elegy', for speaker, small chorus and small orchestra. Words adapted from Mathew Arnold, The Scholar Gipsy and Thyrsis. Autograph. First performed privately at The White Gates, Dorking, 20 Nov. 1949. First public performance at The Queen's College, Oxford, 19 June 1952. Vocal score published 1952. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 198-9; Dickinson, 1963. pp. 464-5.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1952
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50478 A-B
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. CXVIII A, B. 'Sun, Moon, Stars, and Man', four songs for unison voices with strings and/or piano, based on the cantata, 'The Sons of Light'. Words by Ursula Vaughan Williams. Full scores. Autograph, with the printed piano part cut out and pasted in. First performed at the Town Hall, Birmingham, 11 Mar. 1955. Vocal score published 1954. Kennedy, 1982, p. 203.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1955
Extent:: 2 items

Search