Project / Collection: Europeana Collections 1914-1918 / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 69827
Title:: Edward Elgar: Choral works, 1905-1914
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 1-11. 'An evening scene', part song for SATB (words, Coventry Patmore), with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only; 1905. Ink, with annotations in pencil which include the composer's instructions to the printer, and with the printer's markings added. With a printed copy of the words (f. ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1905-1914
Extent:: 1 volume (50 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 69828
Title:: Edward Elgar: Sketches, etc., for 'Carillon' and 'Le drapeau belge'
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 1-21. 'Carillon', recitation with orchestra (poem, Émile Cammaerts), op. 75; [1914]. Published in piano reduction in King Albert's Book (London: Daily Telegraph, 1914). For autograph full score see Add. 58039. Comprising: (a) Printed copy of the poem mounted on to a leaf, annotated by the...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1914-1916
Extent:: 1 volume (22 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 69829
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Polonia', symphonic prelude, op. 76. Sketches
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 1-3. Printed copy of Trzy polskie narodowe hymny, arranged for piano by R. Hill (Moscow: Jurgenson, n.d.). Manuscript additions include musical annotations by Elgar to no. 3, 'Jeszcze polska nie zginela'. 360 x 270mm. 2. ff. 4-25. Complete draft in piano score (ff. 4-19), with miscellan...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1915
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 28 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 69830
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Polonia', symphonic prelude, op. 76. Conductor's score
Scope & Content:: Short score on one or two staves, with instrumental cues. Only partly autograph, headed 'Guida' in Elgar's hand.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1915]
Extent:: 1 volume (34 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 69831
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Une voix dans le désert', for voice and orchestra (words, Émile Cammaerts), op. 77
Scope & Content:: First World War composition. Vocal score published London: Elkin, 1916. Additional wind parts, 'for theatre performances ad. lib.' (f. 1), in full score. MS Facs. 1044/1, 2 is a copy of this score and of an autograph score for voice and strings. For autograph piano score see Add. 52529.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: [1915]
Extent:: 1 volume (5 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 69835
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Fringes of the Fleet'. Sketches
Scope & Content:: Single leaves of sketches in vocal score, and related material. As follows: 1. f. 1. 'The Lowestoft Boat', headed 'a roving. Fringes'. 300 x 240mm. 2. f. 2. 'Fate's Discourtesy', headed 'Kipling V'. 280 x 215mm. 3. ff. 3, 4. 'Submarines', two leaves each headed 'Kipling IV'. 270 x 215mm. ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1917
Extent:: 1 volume (11 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 69836
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Fringes of the Fleet'. Photographs
Scope & Content:: Album of photographs of the first production of Elgar's `Fringes of the Fleet', at the Coliseum June 1917.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jun 1917
Extent:: 1 volume (ii + 13 folios)

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