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1. MS Mus. 1755

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1755
Title:
Susan Bradshaw Papers
Scope & Content:
The papers of Susan Mary Bradshaw (b.1931, d.2005) encompass records from her professional activities in music as a performer, writer and broadcaster. They comprise music scores (including 32 of Bradshaw’s own compositions), correspondence, drafts of her writings on music, lecture notes, concert...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-2006
Extent:
27 boxes and 3 folders

2. MS Mus. 1755/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1755/1
Title:
Musical Works
Scope & Content:
This series contains musical scores of Bradshaw's own compositions and a smaller number of scores by others. Bradshaw's pieces in MS Mus. 1755/1/1-4 (Musical Works by Susan Bradshaw) are unpublished compositions. Only one of Bradshaw's works was published (Eight Hungarian Melodies for piano; C...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1976
Extent:
5 boxes and 1 folder

3. MS Mus. 1755/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1755/5
Title:
Correspondence and Tributes
Scope & Content:
Select correspondence belonging to Susan Bradhaw, mostly incoming but there are also copies of outgoing letters in many files. The series also contains a collection of music manuscripts and correspondence made for, and presented to, Bradshaw on her 60th birthday from many prominent twentieth-cen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1955-2004
Extent:
5 boxes and 1 oversize folder

4. MS Mus. 1755/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1755/4
Title:
Scrapbooks and Programmes
Scope & Content:
Susan Bradshaw's personal scrapbooks of concert programmes and other promotional materials, newspaper cuttings and mementos from her performance history and wider career. These encompass items relating to her compositions (including one piece of juvenilia), piano performances (solo and ensemble),...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-2001
Extent:
5 boxes

5. MS Mus. 1755/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1755/2
Title:
Writings on Music
Scope & Content:
This series comprises Bradshaw's writings on music and a small number of pieces by other authors. Bradshaw's own writings include items about composers and musicians; pieces on various aspects of music theory; articles and reviews; and programme notes. Bradshaw's translation outputs are not widel...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1959-2006
Extent:
9 boxes

6. MS Mus. 1755/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1755/6
Title:
Other Professional Involvements and Photographs
Scope & Content:
This series contains: A collection of photographs of Susan Bradshaw (mostly professional, for publicity, although there are a small number of personal images included), along with four publicity photographs of Arvo Pärt. Papers relating to the New Music Trust; Music Today Limited; and a microton...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1945]-1999
Extent:
1 box

7. MS Mus. 1755/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1755/3
Title:
Research Materials and Collected Concert Programmes
Scope & Content:
Largely comprises printed material organised alphabetically into information files about various composers (predominantly 20th-century but not exclusively). Some of the articles/programme notes etc. have been annotated by Bradshaw and occasionally by others (such as the programme for Henri Pou...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960s-2002
Extent:
3 boxes

8. MS Mus. 1755/5/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1755/5/3
Title:
Correspondence, Sw-Z
Scope & Content:
Three folders of correspondence. Correspondents include: Giles Swayne; Hilary Tann; André Tchaikovsky; Janet Owen Thomas; Wyndham Thomas; Merike Vaitmaa; Bálint András Varga; Roman Vlad; William Wilkins; Christopher Wintle; Hugh Wood (and Jenny, his daughter); James Wood; Roger Wright; and Rose...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1972-18 Oct 2004
Extent:
1 box (3 folders)

9. MS Mus. 1755/2/9-9

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1755/2/9-9
Title:
Writings by Others
Scope & Content:
Includes a small amount of biographical writing about Susan Bradshaw and the English translation of a work by Henri Pousseur, possibly translated by Bradshaw.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964-2006
Extent:
1 box

10. MS Mus. 1755/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1755/3/3
Title:
Collected Programmes
Scope & Content:
Concert programmes collected by Bradshaw. There are many items across the programmes relating to Roberto Gerhard. Folder 1: Two programmes, 1968-1992, with inserts. One has light annotations in the front and back. Folder 2: Four programmes, 1973-1989 Folder 3: Two programmes, 1965-1973, and o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
1968-1992
Extent:
1 box (4 folders)