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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50462-50463
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. CII, CIII. 'Six Choral Songs', for unison voices with piano or orchestra. Words by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Autograph, except as noted. First performed at a B.B.C. broadcast concert, 20 Dec. 1940. Vocal score published 1940. Kennedy, 1982, p. 178; Dickinson, 1963, p. 461.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1940
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50473-50474
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. CXIII, CXIV. 'An Oxford Elegy', for speaker, small chorus and small orchestra. Words adapted from Mathew Arnold, The Scholar Gipsy and Thyrsis. Autograph. First performed privately at The White Gates, Dorking, 20 Nov. 1949. First public performance at The Queen's College, Oxford, 19 June 1952. Vocal score published 1952. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 198-9; Dickinson, 1963. pp. 464-5.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1952
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50361-50366
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. I-VI. 'A Sea Symphony'; composed 1903-1909. First performed at the Leeds Festival, 12 Oct. 1910. Vocal score published 1909; vocal score, revised version, 1918; full score 1924. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 51-7; Dickinson, 1962, pp. 179-81; 1963, pp. 181-9.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1903-1909
Extent:: 27 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50375 A-C
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XV A-C. Symphony no. 7, 'Sinfonia Antartica'; composed 1949-1952. First performed at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, 14 Jan. 1953. Full score published 1953. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 223-7; Dickinson, 1962, pp. 187-8; 1963, pp. 380-9. See Add. MS. 71176 (formerly Royal Philharmonic Society MS. Supplement 6), the autograph full score, and sketches in 50482 B, ff. 4-4b. See also Add. MSS. 50431, 52289, and 59537, for the film music for 'Scott of the Antarctic' on w...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1949-1963
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50470-50472
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. CX-CXII. 'The Sons of Light', cantata for chorus and orchestra; composed 1950. Words by Ursula Wood. First performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 6 May 1951. Vocal score published 1951. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 202-3; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 463-4. See also 50478, which is based on this cantata.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1950
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50416-50417
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. LVI, LVII. 'Riders to the Sea', setting of the play by John Millington Synge; composed 1925-1932. First performed at the Royal College of Music, 30 Nov. 1937. Vocal score published 1936. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 168-9; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 276-90. See also 50412 A, f. 4b; 50481, f. 68b; 50482 A, f. 1.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1925-1932
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50370 A-B
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. X A, B. Symphony no. 4 in F minor; composed 1931-1934. Partly autograph. First performed at the Queen's Hall, London, 10 Apr. 1935. Arranged for two pianos. Full score published 1935. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 157-60; Dickinson, 1962, pp. 185-6, and 1963, pp. 291-309. The autograph full score is Add. MS. 50140; Add. MS. 62995 comprises copies of this.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1931-1935
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50402 A-B
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XLII A, B. Prelude for brass band on three Welsh Hymn Tunes, 'Ebenezer', 'Calfaria' and 'Hyfrydol'. First performed privately, Feb. 1955. First public performance at the Regent Hall, London, 19 Mar. 1955. 50402 B is a copy of the published work. Kennedy, 1982, p. 234.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1955
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50438 A-B
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LXXVIII A, B. 'Songs of Travel', Book I of the song-cycle containing 'The Vagabond', 'Bright is the ring of words', and 'The Roadside Fire'. Words by Robert Louis Stevenson. Orchestral version, 1905. First performed with piano accompaniment at the Bechstein Hall, London, 2 Dec. 1904, and published in this form 1905. See also Add. MSS. 50480, ff. 13-14, 76-81b; 59796, ff. 7-9; 62906, ff. 7-12; 72073, ff. 9-12. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 27-9; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 15...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50460 A-B
Title:: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. C A, B. 'Flourish for a Coronation', for chorus and orchestra. Autograph. First performed at the Queen's Hall, London, 1 Apr. 1937. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 169-70.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1937
Extent:: 2 items

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