Martin Shaw: 'The Vikings at Helgeland' and 'The Dreamer'
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'The Vikings at Helgeland', incidental music to the play by Ibsen. Performed at the Imperial Theatre, London, 1903. ff.^. Full score ff.^. Ornulf's song: first and second versions. Vocal score.'The Dreamer', morality play by Mabel Dearmer, 1912. ff.^. Full score. Dated 'Nov. 1912'. ff.^. Violin p...
Martin Shaw: 'The Brave Little Tailor' and 'Miss Malindy'
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'The Brave Little Tailor', comic opera in 3 acts (words George Calderon and William Caine), 1912. ff.^. Typed script with pencilled annotations ff.^. Sections of vocal score 'Miss Malindy', incidental music for a play by Mabel Dearmer, 1913. ff.^. Carbon copy of script with annotations ff.^....
Martin Shaw: 'Brer Rabbit and Mr Fox' and 'Fools and Fairies'
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'Brer Rabbit and Mr Fox, a musical frolic' (words Mabel Dearmer), 1914 ff.^. Typed script, with annotations and additional amended pages ff.^. Printed vocal score (incomplete)'Fools and Fairies', music for Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 1918 ff.^. Section of vocal score in pencil, hea...
'A Christmas Pageant', a masque for children. Text adapted by Joan Cobbold. 1925. ff.^. Script in manuscript and typescript, with illustrations ff.^. Sections of vocal score with annotations ff.^. Book containing printed and handwritten script with pasted sections of Curwen edition (for a complet...
'Mr Pepys', a ballad opera adapted from the book by Clifford Bax, 1926. ff.^. Full scores for individual numbers: no. 24 ('So it must be') and no. 27 ('Come for the joy of spring')'Granite', (words by Clemence Dane), 1926 ff.^. Melody line for three songs. Three copies, two in Shaw's hand.'The Mo...
'Waterloo Leave', ballad-opera (words Clifford Bax), 1928 ff.^. Typed script with some corrections ff.^. Vocal score with annotations ff.^. Duplicated fair copy of three sections ff.^. Full score with annotations ff.^. Programme for Ipswich production, 1959
Martin Shaw: 'The Rock', pageant; 1934 (words T.S. Eliot)
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(1.) Sketches and piano/vocal score ff.^. Sketches in pencil ff.^. Vocal / short score ff.^. Printed chorus score ff.^. Ballet: piano score. Original and fair copy(2.) Full score ff.^. Full score with annotations. Blue buckram binding. Contains balance sheet from London and Chelmsford productions...