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1. MS Mus. 2-83

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MS Mus. 2-83
Title:
Francis Chagrin Collection: Music manuscripts and papers of the composer, conductor and administrator Francis Chagrin (1905-1972)
Scope & Content:
All music manuscripts are autograph full scores for orchestra, written in pencil, except where otherwise stated. Manuscripts are arranged chronologically within each section where a date can be established, then alphabetically for undated pieces. Dates of recording, where cited, are descibed as ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Latin, Romanian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1927-1974
Extent:
82 volumes

2. MS Mus. 97-104

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MS Mus. 97-104
Title:
DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
MSS Mus. 97-104. Papers of the musicologist, publisher and administrator Donald Charles Peter Mitchell (b.1925). For other papers presented by Mitchell see Add. 49597, ff. 3-6. Further papers in the possession of the British Library are deposited at the Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh. MSS Mu...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
[1876-1989]
Extent:
8 items

3. MS Mus. 133 A-K

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 133 A-K
Title:
Miscellaneous Letters of Musicians, etc.; 19th – 20th cent.
Scope & Content:
MS Mus. 133 A-K. ff. 196. Largest size 350 x 243mm. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:

11 items

4. MS Mus. 134 A-G

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MS Mus. 134 A-G
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS OF MUSICIANS; 20th cent.
Scope & Content:
MS Mus. 134 A-G. ff. 169. Largest size 332 x 210mm. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:

7 items

5. MS Mus. 141

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 141
Title:
MS Mus. 141. MICHEL MORIN’S MUSIC BOOK; circa 1725. Variations on ‘La folia’ for keyboard, followed by eleven unaccompanied airs à boire for solo voice, twelve for duet, and a solo bass tune. Written in ink by two scribes, the first (ff. 1-16) for the keyboard music and solos, the second (ff. 16-24) for the duets. Only one vocal part of the duets is written. The name of ‘(Monsieur) Michel Morin’ is written repeatedly on ff. ii and 24, in one case as ‘Monstre marin Espece de Mathematique’. Th...
Scope & Content:
Music: Keyboard music and airs à boire: circa 1735: Fr. includes: f. 11v Henri Desmarets, composer: Song, 'Dieu d'amour, remoin de mes peines': circa 1735: Fr: Copy.f. 12 Guinard, composer: Song, 'Que vous-je grands dieux c'est l'aurore': circa 1735: Fr: Copy.f. 13 Brunetti, composer: So...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1725
Extent:
1 item

6. MS Mus. 149-152

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MS Mus. 149-152
Title:
MSS Mus. 149-152. CHARLES DIBDIN THE ELDER: music manuscripts; circa 1767-1814. Autograph scores, in ink, including some copies of other composers’ works. Unless otherwise stated, the words are by Dibdin, only the first verse of airs is written, and the scoring of airs and choruses is for voices, horns, oboes and strings, and of recitatives for voice and bass. Supplements the Dibdin collection at Add. 30950-30970. Other collections of Dibdin’s manuscripts are at Southampton Public Library, t...
Scope & Content:
Charles Dibdin, composer and dramatist: Music manuscripts: circa 1767-1814: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1767-1814
Extent:
4 items

7. MS Mus. 168-208

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MS Mus. 168-208
Title:
ALICK MACLEAN COLLECTION MSS Mus. 168-208. Music manuscripts and papers of the composer and conductor and Alexander Morvaren (‘Alick’) Maclean (b.1872, d.1936); 1880-1970, n.d. All music manuscripts are autograph full scores for orchestra, written in ink, except where otherwise stated. See K. Young, Music’s Great Days in the Spas and Watering-Places (1968), pp. 78-107. Presented by Alick Mayhew, Esq., grandson of the composer, 12 Sept. 1988, and incorporated June 2002. Paper. Forty-one vol...
Scope & Content:
'Alick' Morvaren Maclean, or Alexander; composer and conductor: Music manuscripts and papers: 1880-1970, n.d.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1880-1970
Extent:
41 items

8. MS Mus. 243-245

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 243-245
Title:
MSS Mus. 243-245. ELLEN COLEMAN (b. circa 1886, d.1973): music manuscripts; 1921-57, n.d. Autograph scores, in ink. For correspondence of Ellen Coleman, see Add. 59897-59898. Further music manuscripts are housed at City University, London. Presented to the British Institute of Recorded Sound and transferred to Music Collections from the National Sound Archive, 23 April 1996. Three volumes. 310 x 240mm.
Scope & Content:
Ellen Coleman, composer: Music manuscripts: 1921-57, n.d.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1921-1957
Extent:
3 items

9. MS Mus. 266

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 266
Title:
MS Mus. 266. FRANÇOIS CLÉMENT THÉODORE DUBOIS (b.1837, d.1924): ‘Notre Dame de la Mer, Légende du pays Boulonnais pour Soli, choeurs et Orchestre’ [and organ], to a libretto by Louis Gallet; [1897]. Full score. Copy in ink, with conductors’ markings in red and blue crayon and pencil. French. From the hire library of the publisher Heugel. The title page bears stamps and annotations relating to sixteen performances between 1897 and 1919. Purchased from Lisa Cox, 5 March 1998. ff. 124. 350 x 2...
Scope & Content:
Louis Gallet, French writer: François Clément Théodore Dubois, composer and organist: 'Notre Dame de la Mer', oratorio by François Clément Théodore Dubois, to a libretto by Louis Gallet: 1897: Fr.: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1897]
Extent:
1 item

10. MS Mus. 267

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 267
Title:
MS Mus. 267. REYNALDO HAHN (b.1874, d.1947): ‘Méduse’, incidental music, melodramas and choruses for the tragedy in four acts by Maurice Magre, for chorus and orchestra; [1911]. Full score. Copy, in ink, with performance markings added in pencil. French. Vocal score published Paris: Au Menestrel, [1911]. Purchased from Lisa Cox, 23 March 1998. ff. 176. 350 x 270mm. Quarter cloth on boards.
Scope & Content:
Reynaldo Hahn, composer: Maurice Magre, writer of plays: 'Méduse', incidental music by Reynaldo Hahn, for the tragedy by Maurice Magre: [1911]: Fr.: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1911]
Extent:
1 item