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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50427-50428
Title:: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Music for the film The People's Land (1943), on the work of the National Trust, produced by Donald Taylor
Scope & Content:: Possibly begun as early as 1941. Autograph. Based on traditional tunes. Film first shown privately, 17 Mar. 1943. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 184-5; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 441-2.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1941-1943]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50429-50430
Title:: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Music for the film The Flemish Farm (1943), directed by Jeffrey Dell
Scope & Content:: A Two Cities Film, first shown, 12 Aug. 1943. The suite arranged from the film music was first performed at the Royal Albert Hall, 31 July 1945. Kennedy, 1982, p. 185; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 442-4.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1943
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50434-50435
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. LXXIV, LXXV. 'Willow Wood', cantata for baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra; composed 1902-1903, revised 1908. Words by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 19-20; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 149-51.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1902-1908
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50438 A-B
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LXXVIII A, B. 'Songs of Travel', Book I of the song-cycle containing 'The Vagabond', 'Bright is the ring of words', and 'The Roadside Fire'. Words by Robert Louis Stevenson. Orchestral version, 1905. First performed with piano accompaniment at the Bechstein Hall, London, 2 Dec. 1904, and published in this form 1905. See also Add. MSS. 50480, ff. 13-14, 76-81b; 59796, ff. 7-9; 62906, ff. 7-12; 72073, ff. 9-12. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 27-9; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 15...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 2 items

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

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