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Archive Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 326-673 Level [37] SubSeries

11. MS Mus. 398-403

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 398-403
Title:
MSS Mus. 398-403. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxiii-lxxviii. ‘Pageant of Co-operation’, to a scenario by Montagu Slater and André van Gyseghem, for military band and chorus; 1938. Music for the pageant produced at Wembley Stadium on 2 July 1938. Elsewhere entitled ‘Towards Tomorrow’. Six volumes.
Scope & Content:
Montagu Slater, author: André van Gyseghem, writer: Music by A. D. Bush for a 'Pageant of Co-operation' , to a scenario by Montagu Slater and André van Gyseghem: 1938.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Czech, English, and Slovak
Date Range:
1938
Extent:
6 items

12. MS Mus. 404-405

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 404-405
Title:
MSS Mus. 404, 405. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxix, lxxx. ‘Festival of Music for the People’, music for a pageant to a scenario by Randall Swingler, for military band; [1939]. The music for the pageant was organised by Bush, and included contributions by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Cooke, Elisabeth Lutyens, Edmund Rubbra, Erik Chisholm, Christian Darnton, Frederic Austin, Norman Demuth, Elizabeth Maconchy, Alan Rawsthorne and Bush himself. Performed at the Royal Albert Hall on 1 April 19...
Scope & Content:
Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM; composer: Band parts for 'Flourish for Wind Band': 1939: Copies. Randall Carline Swingler, poet and novelist: Settings of his verse in compositions of A. D. Bush: 1936-71.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1939]
Extent:
2 items

13. MS Mus. 408-409

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 408-409
Title:
MSS Mus. 408, 409. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxxiii, lxxxiv. ‘The Living English: A Song Pageant of People based on English Folk Songs’, selected by A. L. Lloyd, with a script by Maurice Carpenter, the music arranged by Alan Bush for flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, violin, viola, ’cello, narrrator, mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists, mixed chorus and children’s chorus; [1946]. Performed at the Folk Song and Dance Festival at the Scala Theatre, London, 1946. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:
Albert Lancaster Lloyd, ballad collector: Maurice Carpenter, poet: 'The Living English', pageant to music arranged by A. D. Bush , based on English folk songs selected by Albert Lancaster Lloyd, with a script by Maurice Carpenter: [1946].
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1946]
Extent:
2 items

14. MS Mus. 411-413

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 411-413
Title:
MSS Mus. 411-413. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxxvi-lxxxviii. ‘Communist Manifesto Centenary Pageant’, to a script by Montagu Slater, with music for military band and chorus; [1948]. The music for the pageant was organised by Bush, and included contributions by Christian Darnton, Inglis Gundry, Phil Cardew, Rutland Boughton, Gwendoline Mullings, Malcolm Arnold, Aubrey Bowman and Bernard Stevens, as well as Bush himself. Performed at the Royal Albert Hall, April 1948. Add. 69023 is a typewrit...
Scope & Content:
Montagu Slater, author: Rutland Boughton, composer: Malcolm Henry Arnold, composer: Aubrey Bowman, composer: Philip Christian Darnton, composer: Inglis Gundry, composer and writer: Bernard George Stevens, composer: Philip Cardew, clarinettist, band leader and arranger: Gwendoline Mullings, compo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1948]
Extent:
3 items

15. MS Mus. 414-415

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 414-415
Title:
MSS Mus. 414, 415. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxxix, xc. ‘Labour Monthly: "Fifty Fighting Years"’, film score, for clarinet, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, piano, percussion, strings and chorus; [1971]. Music for the film Fifty Fighting Years, on the history of the journal Labour Monthly, written by Stanley Forman, Ivor Montagu and Roger Woddis and co-directed by Forman and Roland Bischoff. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:
Stanley Forman, writer: Ivor Montagu, writer: Roger Woddis, writer: Roland Bischoff, film director: 'Labour Monthly: "Fifty Fighting Years"', music by A. D. Bush , for the film written by Stanley Forman, Ivor Montagu and Roger Woddis and co-directed by Forman and Roland Bischoff: [1971].
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1971]
Extent:
2 items

16. MS Mus. 416-421

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 416-421
Title:
MSS Mus. 416-421. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. xci-xcvi. Vocal music with orchestra; 1926-[1985]. Six volumes.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Czech, Dutch, English, German, Xhosa, and Zulu
Date Range:
1926-[1985]
Extent:
6 items

17. MS Mus. 422-424

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 422-424
Title:
MSS Mus. 422-424. Alan Bush Collection. Vols xcvii-xcix. Choral music (without orchestra); 1927-circa 1985, n.d. Scores, in ink, unless stated otherwise. Three volumes. 360 x 275mm.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927-c 1985
Extent:
3 items

18. MS Mus. 425-426

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 425-426
Title:
MSS Mus. 425, 426. Alan Bush Collection. Vols c, ci. Songs for voice and piano; [1929-81]. The score of ‘Cradle Song for an Unwanted Child’ (words, Randall Swingler), arranged for solo voice and piano, is Add. 52464 B, ff. 3-7. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
[1929-1981]
Extent:
2 items

19. MS Mus. 431-432

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 431-432
Title:
Alan Bush Collection. Correspondence with the pianist and conductor David Ellenberg and his wife Diana
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940-1991
Extent:
2 volumes

20. MS Mus. 441-443

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 441-443
Title:
Alan Bush Collection. Correspondence with the writer Barrie Stavis
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1961-1991
Extent:
3 volumes