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391. Add MS 56237

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Title:
HECTOR BERLIOZ: letters from Louis Hector Berlioz to members of his family; 1830-1855. French. Included is a letter from Honoré de Balzac to Berlioz (f. 13). All the letters are printed in Hector Berlioz Correspondance générale, ed. P. Citron (Paris, 1972- ). Presented by the Chapot family, descendents of Adèle Suat, sister of Berlioz. Paper; ff. 25. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:
Music: Louis Hector Berlioz, composer: Letters to members of his family from Louis Hector Berlioz: 1830-1855: Fr. includes: f. 13 Honoré de Balzac, novelist: Louis Hector Berlioz, composer: Letter to Louis Hector Berlioz from Honoré de Balzac: 1840: Fr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1830-1855
Extent:
1 item

392. Add MS 56478

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Title:
John Foulds: 'A World Requiem', for soli, chorus, orchestra and organ, op. 60
Scope & Content:
Text from the Bible, the Requiem Mass, the Benedicite, Kabir, John Bunyan and Maud MacCarthy. Full score and associated materials. The score and some of the associated papers have been annotated and signed 'O.P.' (i.e. Maud MacCarthy, afterwards Swami Omananda Puri, wife of John Foulds). For fur...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1965
Extent:
1 volume (xli + 236 +55*, 133*, 133**, 162*, 164*, 172*, 172**, 189*, 197*, 223* folios)

393. Add MS 57880

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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)

394. Add MS 57881

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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)

395. Add MS 57887

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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)

396. Add MS 57950

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Title:
Collection of English polyphonic mass settings and motets ('The Old Hall Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: An important collection of English sacred music of the late 14th to early 15th centuries, including works by the named composers (with scrolls and inscriptions in contemporary hands) Leonel Power, Pycard, Typp, Byttering, Oliver, Chirbury, Excetre, Cooke, Roy Henry (Henry IV or Henry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1420
Extent:

A parchment codex, 112 folios

397. Add MS 58029

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ELGAR COLLECTION. Vol. XLVI. Concerto in B minor: piano and violin score; signed ‘June 28 1910 Hereford' (f. 117). Annotated in red and green inks and blue crayon and with printer's pencil markings. Published Novello & Co., 1910. ff. 117. 300 x 239mm. Bound in maroon cloth with gold letter...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:
1 item

398. Add MS 58037

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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)

399. Add MS 58040

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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)

400. Add MS 58041

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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)

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