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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50371-50372
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XI, XII. Symphony no. 5 in D major; composed 1938-1943. First performed at the Royal Albert Hall, 24 June 1943. Full score published 1946, revised full score 1961. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 183-4; Dickinson, 1962, p. 186, and 1963, pp. 309-20.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1938-1943
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50373-50374
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XIII, XIV. Symphony no. 6 in E minor; composed 1944-1947. First performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 21 Apr. 1948. Full score published 1948; revised impression 1950. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 190-4; Dickinson, 1962, pp. 186-7; 1963, pp. 320-35. The autograph full score is Add. MS. 58072. See also Add. MS. 61741, f. 5.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1944-1963
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50375 A-C
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XV A-C. Symphony no. 7, 'Sinfonia Antartica'; composed 1949-1952. First performed at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, 14 Jan. 1953. Full score published 1953. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 223-7; Dickinson, 1962, pp. 187-8; 1963, pp. 380-9. See Add. MS. 71176 (formerly Royal Philharmonic Society MS. Supplement 6), the autograph full score, and sketches in 50482 B, ff. 4-4b. See also Add. MSS. 50431, 52289, and 59537, for the film music for 'Scott of the Antarctic' on w...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1949-1963
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50376-50377
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XVI, XVII. Symphony no. 8 in D minor; composed 1953-1955. First performed at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 2 May 1956. Full score published 1956. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 235-40; Dickinson, 1962, pp. 188-9, and 1963, pp. 390-8. The final autograph full score is Add. MS. 57338. Further sketches are in 50390, ff. 9b-12.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1953-1955
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50378-50384
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XVIII-XXIV. Symphony no. 9 in E minor; composed 1956-1957, but later revised. First performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London, 2 Apr. 1958. Full score published 1958. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 246-52; Dickinson, 1962, pp. 189-91; 1963, pp. 398-410. See also Add. MS. 65188, ff. 15-16.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1963
Extent:: 27 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50386 A-C
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXVI A-C. Suite for viola and orchestra. Full score. Partly autograph. First performed at the Queen's Hall, London, 12 Nov. 1934. Published, with accompaniment arranged for piano, 1936, and in full score, 1966. Kennedy, 1982, p. 155; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 429-30. Three notebooks.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1934
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50387-50388
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XXVII, XXVIII. Concerto in A minor for oboe and strings, etc. First performed at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 30 Sept. 1944. Published, with accompaniment arranged for piano, 1947, and in full score, 1967. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 185-6; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 421-2.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1944
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50390-50392
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XXX-XXXII. Concerto in F minor for bass tuba and orchestra, etc. Autograph. First performed at the Royal Festival Hall, 13 June 1954. Published in an arrangement for tuba and piano, 1955. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 229-30; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 422-3. See also 50482 B, ff. 5-7. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1954
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50394-50395
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XXXIV, XXXV. 'The Running Set', founded on traditional dance tunes and scored for medium orchestra. First performed at the National Folk Dance Festival, Royal Albert Hall, London, 6 Jan. 1934. Published, in an arrangement for two pianos by Vally Lasker and Helen Bidder, 1936, and, in full score, 1952. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 150-1; Dickinson, 1963, p. 436.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 20th century
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50398-50399
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XXXVIII, XXXIX. 'Household Music', three preludes on Welsh hymn tunes, 'Crug-y-bar', 'St. Denio' and 'Aberystwyth'; composed 1940-1941. Two versions of the work exist, for small orchestra (50398), and for string quartet or alternative instruments (50399, 50862). The composer envisaged the latter version, though 'principally designed for string quartet', as 'being played by almost any combination of instruments which may be gathered together at one time in ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1940-1941
Extent:: 2 items

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