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1. MS Mus. 97

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MS Mus. 97
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Scope & Content:
MS Mus. 97. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. i. Gustav Mahler: cancelled folio from the draft orchestral full score of the third movement, ‘Rondo-Burleske’, of the Symphony no.9 in D major; [probably 1909]. Autograph. Written in ink on paper of 24 staves. The recto contains bars 412-25 and the v...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 item

2. MS Mus. 147

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MS Mus. 147
Title:
Edward Elgar: ‘Polonia’, symphonic prelude for orchestra, op.76
Scope & Content:
Copyist’s full score in ink with autograph annotations in red ink and red crayon and further annotations, in pencil, in a third hand. f. i is a Novello hire library label. The stamp of Elkin & Co. Ltd is on f. 2. This score appears to have been copied from the autograph full score, Add MS 52...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1915]
Extent:
1 volume (i + 145 folios)

3. MS Mus. 1587

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MS Mus. 1587
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MS Mus. 1587. George Frideric Handel: Keyboard music; between circa 1717 and 1775. Sonatas, suites and other works for keyboard instrument by Handel and other composers. Copy in ink. The first part of the manuscript (ff. 1-52r) was made by the copyist RM1 in about 1717. (For copyists, see J. P. Larsen: Handel’s Messiah: Origins, Composition, Sources (Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard, 1957)). This is apparently the earliest surviving English copy of Handel’s keyboard music. In this part of the ma...
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includes: ff. 1-46 James Stevens, composer and pianist: 'Concertetto concitato', for piano and orchestra: circa 1960: Photocopy. ff. 1-52r. George Frideric Handel, composer: Keyboard suites, HWV 426-432, 434, 438. Not all complete, and some with additional movements from HWV 8, 428, 442, 495, 5...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1712-1775
Extent:
1 item

4. MS Mus. 1769

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MS Mus. 1769
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Benjamin Britten: Music for the film Instruments of the Orchestra, later published as The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations on a theme of Purcell), op. 34. Autograph draft
Scope & Content:
Draft score. The music was originally composed for the film Instruments of the Orchestra (1946). No earlier sketches are known to survive, and it seems that Britten composed the piece directly into the present draft score. The title-page bears Britten's signature and the words 'Orchestral Film' ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 volume (15 folios)

5. MS Mus. 1818

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MS Mus. 1818
Title:
George Frideric Handel: 'Se tu non lasci Amore', autograph
Scope & Content:
"Se tu non lasci Amore", by George Frideric Handel, for two soprano voices, bass voice and continuo. HWV 201a. Autograph score. In ink on paper ruled with 8 staves. Four gatherings, loosely bound with string. Title on score "Terzetto". Together with an autograph letter from King George III to Mr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1708
Extent:

iii, 16 folios (1 letter, 1 engraving and 1 score)