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Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 166 B
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Scope & Content:: B. VINCENZO BELLINI: ‘Scena e Cavatina [from Act I of] Norma’; circa 1830. Score. Copy, written in ink on paper ruled with sixteen staves. The movements are the duet with chorus ‘Sediziose voci’ and solo with chorus ‘Casta Diva’; the latter is incomplete. Presented by Rabah Loulou, Esq., 14 Nov....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: c 1830
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 171
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Scope & Content:: MS Mus. 171. ALICK MACLEAN COLLECTION. Vol. iv. ‘Carmen Cremonense’. Synopses (ff. 1-15); – libretto (ff. 16-58); – French translation of the libretto by Paul Spaak (ff. 59-76); – German translation of the libretto by Carl Fischer (ff. 77-101); – Italian translation of the synopsis and libretto ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 171-178
Title:: MSS Mus. 171-178. ALICK MACLEAN COLLECTION. Vols. iv-xi. ‘Die Liebesgeige (The Hunchback of Cremona)’, opera in two acts (libretto ‘Sheridan Ross’ [H. E. I. Durand], after F. E. J. Coppée’s ‘Le luthier de Crémone’); [circa 1906]. The opera was originally written in one act and variously entitled ‘Carmen Cremonense’, ‘Cremona’ and ‘The Hunchback’. Eight volumes.
Scope & Content:: Harriette Eveline Isabel Hovenden Durand, née Maclean; alias 'Sheridan Ross'; writer: Operas by Alick Maclean , to libretti by Harriette Eveline Isabel Hovenden Durand: [1892-1906]. François Edouard Joachim Coppée, writer of plays: 'Die Liebesgeige', opera by Alick Maclean, to a libretto by H. ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [c 1906]
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 235-236
Title:: MSS Mus. 235-236. ISIDORE DE LARA: ‘La Luce dell’Asia’, opera in a prologue and four acts to a libretto by William Beatty-Kingston after Sir Edwin Arnold’s ‘The Light of Asia’, translated by G. Mazzucato; [1892]. Full score. Italian. Copy, in ink, with autograph and other annotations and additions in pencil, red ink and red and blue crayon. Cuts are marked at several points by paper pasted over portions of the score. The second volume bears a label on the cover reading ‘Lumière de l’Asie: 1e...
Scope & Content:: Sir Edwin Arnold, KCIE; poet: Isidore De Lara, composer: William Beatty-Kingston, writer of plays: 'La Luce dell'Asia', opera by Isidore De Lara, to a libretto by William Beatty-Kingston after Sir Edwin Arnold: [1892]: Ital.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1892]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 243
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Scope & Content:: MS Mus. 243. ELLEN COLEMAN: songs for voice and piano; 1936-57, n.d. ff. 64. 1. f. 1. ‘The Waterlily’ (words, Robert Nichols); 1936. 2. ff. 2-3. ‘Dawn’ (words, George Villiers); 1942. 3. ff. 4-5. ‘The Wakeful Nightingale’ (words, Roy Campbell); 1944. 4. ff. 6-9. ‘The Lamb’ (words, Blake); N...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1936-1957
Extent:: 1 item

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

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 274
Title:: MS Mus. 274. GIORGIO FEDERICO GHEDINI (b.1892, d.1965): ‘Concerto dell’albatro, per violino, violoncello e Pianoforte e orchestra e recitante’ (words from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, in the Italian translation by Cesare Pavese); 1945. Autograph full score, in ink, with numerous erasures and corrections throughout. Dedicated to Gianandrea Gavazzeni. Signed and dated Borgosesia, 22 June 1945 (f. 50v). The work is scored for speaker, piano trio, flute (piccolo), two trombones, timpani, percuss...
Scope & Content:: Herman Melville, American author: Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer and music teacher: Cesare Pavese, translator: 'Concerto dell'albatro' by Giorgio Federico Ghedini, setting words by Herman Melville in a translation by Cesare Pavese: 1945: Ital.: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1945
Extent:: 1 item

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