032-002083754 / Level: [37] SubSeries - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50371-50372
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XI, XII. Symphony no. 5 in D major; composed 1938-1943. First performed at the Royal Albert Hall, 24 June 1943. Full score published 1946, revised full score 1961. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 183-4; Dickinson, 1962, p. 186, and 1963, pp. 309-20.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1938-1943
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50373-50374
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XIII, XIV. Symphony no. 6 in E minor; composed 1944-1947. First performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 21 Apr. 1948. Full score published 1948; revised impression 1950. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 190-4; Dickinson, 1962, pp. 186-7; 1963, pp. 320-35. The autograph full score is Add. MS. 58072. See also Add. MS. 61741, f. 5.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1944-1963
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50376-50377
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XVI, XVII. Symphony no. 8 in D minor; composed 1953-1955. First performed at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 2 May 1956. Full score published 1956. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 235-40; Dickinson, 1962, pp. 188-9, and 1963, pp. 390-8. The final autograph full score is Add. MS. 57338. Further sketches are in 50390, ff. 9b-12.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1953-1955
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50394-50395
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XXXIV, XXXV. 'The Running Set', founded on traditional dance tunes and scored for medium orchestra. First performed at the National Folk Dance Festival, Royal Albert Hall, London, 6 Jan. 1934. Published, in an arrangement for two pianos by Vally Lasker and Helen Bidder, 1936, and, in full score, 1952. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 150-1; Dickinson, 1963, p. 436.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 20th century
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50434-50435
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. LXXIV, LXXV. 'Willow Wood', cantata for baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra; composed 1902-1903, revised 1908. Words by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 19-20; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 149-51.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1902-1908
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50453-50454
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XCIII, XCIV. 'Dona nobis pacem', setting of the 'Agnus Dei', and English words from various sources, as a cantata for soprano and baritone, chorus and orchestra. Partly Latin. First performed at Huddersfield Town Hall, 2 Oct. 1936. Vocal score published 1936, full score 1971. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 167-8; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 231-3.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1936
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50455-50457
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XCV-XCVII. 'Five Tudor Portraits', suite in five movements for contralto, baritone, chorus and orchestra; completed 1935. Words by John Skelton. First performed at the Norwich Festival, St Andrew's Hall, Norwich, 25 Sept. 1936. Vocal score published 1935, full score 1971. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 162-4; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 224-31.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50407-50408
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XLVII, XLVIII. 'On Christmas Night', masque adapted by Adolf Bolm and the composer from Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol'; composed 1921-1926. Autograph, except as noted. First performed at the Eighth Street Theatre, Chicago, 26 Dec. 1926. Vocal score published 1957. Kennedy, 1980, p. 162; 1982, pp. 120-3; Dickinson, 1963, p. 120.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1921-1926
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50409-50410
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. XLIX, L. 'Sir John in Love', opera based on Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'; composed 1924-1928, with later additions. First performed at the Royal College of Music, 21 Mar. 1929. Vocal score published 1930. See also 50450, 'In Windsor Forest', Add. MS. 54187 C, f. 11b, a sketch for Act II, and Add. MSS. 69454-69456. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 126-33; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 258-71.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1933
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50422-50423
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. LXII, LXIII. '49th Parallel', music for the film produced and directed by Michael Powell; composed 1940-1941. Autograph. Film first shown, 8 Oct. 1941. The suite arranged from the film music was performed in Prague, 1946. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 178-80; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 436-7. See also Add. MSS. 50480, ff. 53-59; 57293, ff. 6-17.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1940-1941
Extent:: 12 items

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