Project / Collection: Europeana Collections 1914-1918 / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57880
Title:: Gustav Holst: Vocal music
Scope & Content:: Mostly annotated engraver's scores. 1. ff. 1-2v. 'The Swallow leaves her nest' for SSA (beg. 'The last sunbeam lightly falls', words: Thomas Lovell Beddoes), H 119; n.d. Score with practice piano part. Mostly autograph. Annotated in red ink and pencil. Published J. Curwen & Sons, 1914. Pre...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1914-1925
Extent:: 1 volume (65+41*, 41**, 43* folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57881
Title:: Gustav Holst: 'The Planets', H 125
Scope & Content:: Arrangements for two pianos. Partly autograph. 1. ff. 1-40. 'Jupiter'; [1914]. Partly autograph. Annotated in red ink and pencil. Published 1951. 2. ff. 41-47. 'Saturn'; [1915]. Copy. Annotated in red ink and pencil. Published 1951. 3. ff. 48-62. 'Uranus'; [1915]. Mostly autograph. Annotat...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1914-1915]
Extent:: 1 volume (62 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57887
Title:: Gustav Holst: 'Ode to Death' for SATB chorus and orchestra (words: Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass, 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'), op. 38, H 144
Scope & Content:: Full score. Mostly autograph but some words in another hand. Annotated in red ink, pencil and crayon.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1919
Extent:: 1 volume (i+ 21 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58037
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Sospiri' for strings, harp (or pianoforte) and harmonium (or organ), op. 70
Scope & Content:: Score. 'W. H. Reed freundschaftlichst zugeeignet'. On f. ii is typed 'This short orchestral piece has the violin part written for Reed'. Annotated in pencil.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: [1914]
Extent:: 1 volume (ii + 9 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58040
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'The Spirit of England'. Vocal score
Scope & Content:: Partly printed (ff. 7 and 8). Annotated in red and green inks and pencil and with printer's blue crayon and pencil markings. Dedication: 'My portion of this work I dedicate to the memory of our glorious men, with a special thought for the WORCESTERS'. 1. ff. 1-32. 'The Fourth of August', op. 8...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1915
Extent:: 1 volume (85 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58041
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'The Spirit of England'. 'The Fourth of August'
Scope & Content:: Full score. Signed 'May 1917 Paris' (f. 41). Annotated with red ink and with printer's pencil and crayon markings.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: May 1917
Extent:: 1 volume (41 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58042
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'The Spirit of England'. 'To Women'
Scope & Content:: Full score. Annotated in green ink and with printer's pencil and crayon markings.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1915]
Extent:: 1 volume (12 + 6* folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58043
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'The Spirit of England'. 'For the Fallen'
Scope & Content:: Full score. Signed 'Severn House 1915'. Annotated in red and green inks and with printer's pencil markings.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1915
Extent:: 1 volume (25 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58044
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'With proud thanksgiving', arrangement of No. 3 ('For the Fallen') from 'The Spirit of England' for chorus and orchestra
Scope & Content:: Full score. Partly printed. Annotated in red and green inks and red and blue crayons.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1915-1917]
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 42 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58068
Title:: Edward Elgar: Miscellaneous works
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 1-8. 'A child asleep', song for voice and piano (words: E. B. Browning from Albion Poets); [1909]. Annotated with printer's pencil markings. 2. ff. 9-12v. 'The Birthright, Marching song for Boys' (words: G. A. Stocks), partsong (SATB) arranged for unison voices, bugles and drums; [1914]...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1909]-1931
Extent:: 1 volume (26 folios)

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