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Collection Area Music Collections Archive Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 1804

1. MS Mus. 1804

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804
Title:
Thea Musgrave Collection
Scope & Content:
Compositions of Thea Musgrave. Scores, composition drafts and sketches of pieces principally composed between 1951 and 2014, with related materials: correspondence, writings, press cuttings, programmes and photographs. Manuscripts are autograph except where stated.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949-2015
Extent:
200 volumes

2. MS Mus. 1804/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1
Title:
Thea Musgrave: Stage works
Scope & Content:
Scores, composition drafts and sketches, autograph, in inks and pencil. Sketches (including diagrams and structural outlines) are on paper, in inks and pencil, the leaves foliated and dated. Composition drafts (often described by the composer as 'final sketches') are on the recto of leaves of ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-2003
Extent:
93 volumes

3. MS Mus. 1804/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/2
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'The Abbot of Drimock'
Scope & Content:
Opera in one act. (1.) Full transposing score (most Musgrave scores are in C, so this is noteworthy). 'A chamber opera in three scenes'. The title-page is a transparency. (2.) Vocal score (reduction for piano and two percussionists). 'An opera in three scenes'. (3.) Two press cuttings by Donald...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1955-1999
Extent:
1 volume

4. MS Mus. 1804/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/3
Title:
Thea Musgrave: stage works. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Marko the Miser', 'The Devil and John Brown'
Scope & Content:
(1) 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', incidental music for a production at the Old Vic premièred on 20 December 1960, conducted by John Lambert. Index of cues (stuck to inside of blue bifolio), letter, 7 November 1960 from Michael [?], providing a translation and transliteration of an ancient Greek; i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1963
Extent:
1 volume

5. MS Mus. 1804/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/4
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'The Decision', opera
Scope & Content:
Material relating to Musgrave's opera 'The Decision', opera in three acts, completed in 1965, to a libretto by Maurice Lindsay, based on the television drama by Ken Taylor ('The Devil and John Brown'). See also MS Mus. 1804/1/3 and MS Mus. 1804/1/12/6/2/4.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964-1967
Extent:
11 volumes

6. MS Mus. 1804/1/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/4/1
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'The Decision', opera. Libretto drafts
Scope & Content:
Libretto draft, '1st Draft Jan 1964', typewritten with handwritten annotations. Foliation restarts with each scene. Libretto draft, '4th Draft Oct 1964 + corrections Nov 1964' (struck-out), typewritten with handwritten annotations. Foliation runs continuously throughout the draft. Libretto draft,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
1 volume

7. MS Mus. 1804/1/4/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/4/2
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'The Decision', opera. Draft
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965
Extent:
3 volumes

8. MS Mus. 1804/1/4/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/4/2/1
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'The Decision', opera. Draft: Act 1
Scope & Content:
(1.) Act I. (2.) A few leaves resembling a fair copy, with significant emendations to the part for John Brown.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965
Extent:
1 volume

9. MS Mus. 1804/1/4/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/4/2/2
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'The Decision', opera. Draft. Act 2
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965
Extent:
1 volume

10. MS Mus. 1804/1/4/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/4/2/3
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'The Decision', opera. Draft: Act 3
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965
Extent:
1 volume