Music from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Archive: Ruddigore (W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan)
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First performed at the Savoy Theatre from 22 Jan to 5 Nov 1887 (288 performances). Bound copy manuscript full score; annotated vocal scores and libretti; orchestral parts, including parts for the original overture and finale; Overture arranged for piano by Geoffrey Toye; an arrangement for two...
D'Oyly Carte Archive: Ruddigore (Copy full score: Overture and Act I)
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Bound, manuscript copy of original full score, in black ink: Overture and Act I. f. 1. D'Oyly Carte packaging label loosely placed inside front cover indicating that both volumes of this copy score, as well as Geoffrey Toye's solo piano arrangement of the Overture, were once stored together. For...
D'Oyly Carte Archive: Ruddigore (Copy full score, Act II)
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Bound, manuscript copy of original full score, in black ink: Act II. ff. 22, 24 and 27 are pasted-down occlusions. f. 31v includes additional score in pencil. ff. 33 and 35 are paste-downs. ff. 44v-46v. Cut indicated in pencil. f. 73v. Cut indicated in purple pencil. For overture and Act I, see ...
D'Oyly Carte Archive: Ruddigore (Vocal scores and libretti)
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(1). Annotated vocal score, formerly owned by George W. Lingard (signature on title-page). Donated by R. A. Beland (25 Jan 2002 - slip attached to inside front cover). Two brief letters to Lingard (24 and 25 Jul 1907) pasted to front fly-leaf from F[rançois] Cellier and from George Harris, both ...
D'Oyly Carte Archive: Ruddigore ('Original Overture' - further annotated copies)
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Dyeline copies of instrumental parts for the 'Original Overture', with some pencil annotations. Together with the string parts, there is a dyeline copy (printed source) of a piano arrangement of the overture for the 1924 production. In addition, on transparencies: manuscript parts for flutes, ...
D'Oyly Carte Archive: Ruddigore (Arranged for two pianos by F. J. Buckley)
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(1). Published vocal score (Chappell & Co. Ltd.) annotated in red pencil indicating Pianos I and II throughout. (2). Overture arranged for two pianos. Autograph score, in blue ink, for each piano in the hand of F. J. Buckley (pages stamped with his name). In bespoke card covers. (3). Two s...
D'Oyly Carte Archive: Ruddigore (Miscellaneous Material in Manuscript)
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(1). 'Before No. 7'. String parts for Ruddigore written out by the Cotswold Savoyards. (2). 'Robins' solo in Act II as scored by D. R. Higgins, Opera Fourteen, Sheffield (1968), in photocopy manuscript.
Music from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Archive: The Yeomen of the Guard (W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan)
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First performed at the Savoy Theatre from 3 Oct 1888 to 30 Nov 1889 (423 performances). Bound manuscript copy full score; annotated libretti; instrumental parts; and an arrangement for two pianos on transparencies.