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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50462-50463
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. CII, CIII. 'Six Choral Songs', for unison voices with piano or orchestra. Words by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Autograph, except as noted. First performed at a B.B.C. broadcast concert, 20 Dec. 1940. Vocal score published 1940. Kennedy, 1982, p. 178; Dickinson, 1963, p. 461.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1940
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50470-50472
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. CX-CXII. 'The Sons of Light', cantata for chorus and orchestra; composed 1950. Words by Ursula Wood. First performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 6 May 1951. Vocal score published 1951. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 202-3; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 463-4. See also 50478, which is based on this cantata.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1950
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50473-50474
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. CXIII, CXIV. 'An Oxford Elegy', for speaker, small chorus and small orchestra. Words adapted from Mathew Arnold, The Scholar Gipsy and Thyrsis. Autograph. First performed privately at The White Gates, Dorking, 20 Nov. 1949. First public performance at The Queen's College, Oxford, 19 June 1952. Vocal score published 1952. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 198-9; Dickinson, 1963. pp. 464-5.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1952
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50478 A-B
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. CXVIII A, B. 'Sun, Moon, Stars, and Man', four songs for unison voices with strings and/or piano, based on the cantata, 'The Sons of Light'. Words by Ursula Vaughan Williams. Full scores. Autograph, with the printed piano part cut out and pasted in. First performed at the Town Hall, Birmingham, 11 Mar. 1955. Vocal score published 1954. Kennedy, 1982, p. 203.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1955
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50479 A-J
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. CXIX A-J. 'Epithalamion', cantata for baritone, chorus and small orchestra, based on 50421, the masque, 'The Bridal Day'. Words chosen by Ursula Vaughan Williams from Spenser. First performed, Royal Festival Hall, 30 Sept. 1957. Vocal score published 1957. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 244-5; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 466-70. Ten notebooks.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1957
Extent:: 10 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50535-50537
Title:: G. B. SHAW PAPERS: SERIES I. Vols. XXVIII-XXX. Letters of Elinor Huddart.
Scope & Content:: Elinor L. Huddart, alias 'Elinor Hume'; alias 'Louisa Rouile'; novelist: Letters to G. B. Shaw of Elinor L. Huddart: 1878-1894.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1878-1894]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50544-50545
Title:: 50544, 50555. G. B. SHAW PAPERS: SERIES I. Vols. XXXVII, XXXVIII. Letters of Mrs. Jenny Paterson; 1882-1888.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1882-1888
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50554-50556
Title:: G. B. SHAW PAPERS: SERIES I. Vols. XLVI-XLVIII. Letters and papers relating to phonetics and spelling reform; 1852-1956, n.d.
Scope & Content:: George Bernard Shaw, author: Phonetics: Letters and papers rel. to phonetics and spelling reform: circa 1852-1969: Partly Germ. Partly in phonetic scripts.: Partly duplicate, printed, and copy.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1852-1956
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50558-50560
Title:: G. B. SHAW PAPERS: SERIES I. Vols. L-LII. Shorthand drafts of letters by Shaw.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1886-1917]
Extent:: 4 items

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