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3511. MS Mus. 1808/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1808/3
Title:
Giles Swayne Collection. Correspondence and scrapbook
Scope & Content:
Select correspondence, biographical material and a scrapbook of programme notes and newspaper cuttings.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1975-2009
Extent:
2 files

3512. MS Mus. 1808/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1808/3/1
Title:
Giles Swayne Collection. Correspondence and scrapbook. Correspondence and biographical material
Scope & Content:
c. ff.1-163: Personal and professional correspondence to and from select friends and colleagues. Mainly consists of manuscript and typed letters, with two printed email threads. Correspondents include: William Walton, granting permission to quote from Façade; Olivier Messiaen, regarding composi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1975-2009
Extent:

c. 207 folios

3513. MS Mus. 1808/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1808/3/2
Title:
Giles Swayne Collection. Correspondence and scrapbook. Scrapbook
Scope & Content:
Scrapbook containing programme notes, newspaper cuttings and some correspondence. Includes a letter from Olivier Messiaen inviting Swayne to composition classes at the Paris Conservatoire; and sample pages from first proofs of 'Suite' (op. 21) for guitar.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1976-1981
Extent:
1 volume; c. 28 folios

3514. MS Mus. 1808/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1808/4
Title:
Giles Swayne Collection. Inventory
Scope & Content:
Handlist of items held in the collection, with a description of each item. Written by Giles Swayne prior to deposit.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2015
Extent:

2 files

3515. MS Mus. 1808/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1808/4/1
Title:
Giles Swayne Collection. Inventory
Scope & Content:
Handlist of items held in the collection, with a description of each item. Written by Giles Swayne prior to deposit.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2015
Extent:
18 folios

3516. MS Mus. 1808/4/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1808/4/2
Title:
Giles Swayne Collection. Inventory. Redacted copy
Scope & Content:
Copy of handlist of items held in the collection, with a description of each item. Written by Giles Swayne prior to deposit and redacted for release.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2015
Extent:
18 folios

3517. MS Mus. 1810

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810
Title:
O. W. Neighbour Collection of Music Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts collected by Oliver Wray Neighbour (1923-2015), former Music Librarian of the British Library. The collection reflects Neighbour's own scholarly interests, including items relating to Byrd and Schoenberg, for example, but also a diverse range of other composers, some not otherwi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Unspecified
Date Range:
1500-2015
Extent:
229 files

3518. MS Mus. 1810/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/1
Title:
Franz Wilhelm Abt: Zwei (‘Auf hohem Berge’)
Scope & Content:
Choral song no. 2 for SATB from Abt’s Fünf Chor Gesänge, op. 152. Signed: ‘Franz Abt. Braunschweig, 16/7/61.’ Written in ink on a single sheet with 8 pre-printed staves, blue decorative floral borders and caption at the bottom middle reading: ‘Aus dem Album von Carl Gurckhaus’. Single leaf from ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

3519. MS Mus. 1810/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/2
Title:
Charles-Valentin Alkan: ‘Zammerū la-’Ădhōnāi’ (Sing praises unto the Lord)
Scope & Content:
For piano. Published in Paris in 1844 by the Bureau Central de Musique as ‘Alleluia’, op. 25. French and Hebrew words.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

3520. MS Mus. 1810/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/3
Title:
Thomas Attwood: ‘Fugue in E flat’
Scope & Content:
Published by John E. West in ‘Old English Organ Music’, no. 24, as no. 2 of ‘Two Pieces’ by Attwood, with the title ‘Cathedral Fugue’. Dated 7 July 1826.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

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