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Archive Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 1178-1193 Level [40] File

11. MS Mus. 1188

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1188
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: ‘Ring Up the Curtain, a Harlequinade for Orchestra’
Scope & Content:
With verses by Rodney Bennett. Autograph full score, annotated ‘Composed Sept. 1925’, and ‘orchestrated July 1926’ (f. 24). Published W. Paxton & Co., 1926.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1926
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)

12. MS Mus. 1189

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1189
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: ‘Elegiac Rhapsody, In Memoriam EBW’, for orchestra
Scope & Content:
Written in memory of the composer's mother, Edith Beatrice Williams. Full score, dated 1929 (f. 3). For other scores, see MS Mus. 1187.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
1 volume (35 folios)

13. MS Mus. 1190

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1190
Title:
John Gerrard Williams, Arthur Bliss and others: ‘Suite: Captions, being five glimpses of an anonymous theme’, for small orchestra
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscripts of movements by Arthur Bliss, Eugene Goossens, Felix White and John Gerrard Williams. The suite, comprising five variations on a theme of Herbert Bedford, was first performed in London in 1923. The second variation, ‘The Lonely Dancer of Gedar’, by Herbert Bedford, is lacki...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 41 folios)

14. MS Mus. 1191

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1191
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: ‘Pot-Pourri, A Cycle of Fragments for Orchestra’
Scope & Content:
Full score. Dated 24 Dec. 1918 (f. 14), 19 Jan. 1919, and annotated 'orchestrated Oct.-Nov. 1920' (f. 16). Published by Novello, 1921.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1920
Extent:
1 volume (16 folios)

15. MS Mus. 1192

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1192
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook containing a manuscript list of works, a manuscript copy of an article by John Gerrard Williams, published in The Sackbut, October 1921, on 'Trained verses Untrained Composers', and press cuttings of reviews of the composer’s works.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1920-1921
Extent:
1 volume (85 folios)

16. MS Mus. 1193

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1193
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: Thematic Catalogue of Works etc.
Scope & Content:
Manuscript catalogue of the works of John Gerrard Williams, with themes written out in many cases (ff. 1-59), together with press cuttings and two copies of a concert programme from the Birmingham Chamber Concerts Society series of 1915, featuring the composer's String Quartet in F minor (ff. 60-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1915-1924
Extent:
1 volume (207 folios)