YULE, Sir HENRY (1820-1889) Yule served in India with the Bengal Engineers from 1840 to 1862. He was first posted to the Khasi Hills, Assam, where he ...
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YULE, Sir HENRY (1820-1889) Yule served in India with the Bengal Engineers from 1840 to 1862. He was first posted to the Khasi Hills, Assam, where he became interested in the customs and megaliths of the Khasis. In 1843 he was sent to the Punjab to work on the west Jumma canals. At the end o...
Arnold Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16, 1909: copy, written out by the composer and Erwin Stein
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Autograph full score. Written in ink, on systems of up to 30 staves. Incomplete, comprising nos. I, III, IV and bars 1-16 only of no. V. No. I written jointly by Schoenberg and Stein, the remaining numbers entirely in the hand of the composer. As follows: ff. 1-6r. No. I; tempo marking (f. 1r)...
Igor Stravinsky: [Z har-ptitsa] - ‘L’Oiseau de feu’, ballet in two scenes (scenario M. Fokine after a Russian national fairy tale), 1910: album-leaf quotation from the ‘Berceuse’
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on 14 staves, on one side of a single leaf. Six bars, beginning at cue no. 184 in the published full score; a stave is marked for the second harp, which plays during this passage, but no notes are entered, and in the last two bars of the extract the second vi...