MS Mus. 165. SUPPLEMENTARY VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. xiii. Diploma from the fourth international film festival of Czechoslovakia, awarded to Vaughan Williams for his score for the film ‘Scott of the Antarctic’; 1949. Czech. Printed. See Ursula Vaughan Williams, R.V.W. (Oxford, 1964), p....
MSS Mus. 326-673. Music manuscripts, correspondence and papers of the composer, pianist and teacher Alan Dudley Bush (b.1900, d.1995); 1924-91. Autograph unless stated otherwise. English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Xhosa and Zulu. Most scores are not dated,...
MSS Mus. 398, 399. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxiii, lxxiv. Full score, in pencil (MS Mus. 398, nos 5 and 6 and MS Mus. 399, nos 1 and 10 in ink). The versos of ff. 61-5 have a draft score in pencil of parts of another orchestral piece. Two volumes. 355 x 265mm.
MSS Mus. 398-403. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxiii-lxxviii. ‘Pageant of Co-operation’, to a scenario by Montagu Slater and André van Gyseghem, for military band and chorus; 1938. Music for the pageant produced at Wembley Stadium on 2 July 1938. Elsewhere entitled ‘Towards Tomorrow’. Six volumes.
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Montagu Slater, author: André van Gyseghem, writer: Music by A. D. Bush for a 'Pageant of Co-operation' , to a scenario by Montagu Slater and André van Gyseghem: 1938.
MS Mus. 399. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. lxxiv. Full score. Part 2 (ff. 66). 1. ff. 1-33. ‘War Ballet’. 2. ff. 34-7. ‘The Red Flag’. Two arrangements. For another orchestral arrangement of ‘The Red Flag’ by Bush, see MS Mus. 411, ff. 85-7. 3. ff. 38-9. ‘Scots, Wha Hae’, arranged by Bush. An ar...
MS Mus. 416. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. xci. Vocal music with orchestra; 1926-[1949]. ff. 106. 355 x 265mm. 1. ff. 1-27. Two songs for soprano and chamber orchestra, op.7; 1926. Full score, in ink. i. ff. 1-13. ‘The Moth’ (words, Walter de la Mare); Feb. 1926. ii. ff. 14-27. ‘Overheard on a ...