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Archive Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 1752 Digitised Content No Level [40] File

1. MS Mus. 1752/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1752/1/1
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. 'Nocturne', 'Deus Misereatur', Leaf from 'Sinfonia antartica'
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-9. "Nocturne: Whispers of heavenly death" for medium voice and orchestra. Words by Walt Whitman. Composed in January 1908, and presumably intended to form a set with two other Whitman settings composed in August that year ("Come, O voluptuous sweet-breathed earth" and "Out of the Rollin...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1952?
Extent:
15 folios

2. MS Mus. 1752/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1752/1/2
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. J. Cooper's arrangement of Piano Concerto, Copyist's piano duet score of "The Pilgrim's Progress".
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-54. "The Pilgrim's Progress", arranged (by Allen Percival?) for piano, 4 hands; between 1951 and 1955? Copyist's score in ink and pencil on 12-stave paper in six gatherings of folded bifolia numbered "I", "II", "III", "IV" and "VI". With vocal cues and references to page numbers in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1991
Extent:
144 folios

3. MS Mus. 1752/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1752/1/3
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. Printed scores: Symphony no.6 annotated by the composer, violin sonata annotated by Szigeti
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-123. Printed score of Symphony no. 6 in E minor, published by Oxford University Press in 1948, with conducting annotations and revisions to the musical text in the hand of the composer. A new edition of the symphony incorporating these revisions was published in 1950. Printed score w...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949-1956
Extent:
i + 124 folios

4. MS Mus. 1752/1/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1752/1/4/1
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. Music for the film 'Coastal Command' (1942). Scores of 'Coastal Command' and 'See the vacant sea'
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-9. 'Guide to the music from Coastal Command'. Pencil full score with red ink additions. Seven movements are listed: '1 Prelude', '2 Night take-off', '3 U-boat alert', '4 Hebrides', '5 Battle of Beauforts', '6 Dawn patrol', '7 Finale'. Only the music for 1 and 4 is present; cues and ti...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
63 folios

5. MS Mus. 1752/1/4/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1752/1/4/2
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. Music for the film 'Coastal Command' (1942). Autograph parts, flute 1 to horn 4.
Scope & Content:
Flute 1 to horn 4 of set of orchestral parts for 'Coastal Command', chiefly autograph. Music for the film score marked with red, green and blue crayon for playing as a suite. In brown wrappers of Oxford University Press Music Department. Titles: Moderato (becomes Suite 1) Sequence 1, Lento (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
ii + 106 folios

6. MS Mus. 1752/1/4/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1752/1/4/3
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. Music for the film 'Coastal Command' (1942). Autograph parts, trumpet to 1st violins
Scope & Content:
Trumpet to first violins of set of orchestral parts for 'Coastal Command', chiefly autograph. Music for the film score marked with red, green and blue crayon for playing as a suite. In brown wrappers of Oxford University Press Music Department. Titles: Moderato (becomes Suite 1) Sequence 1, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
ii + 130 folios

7. MS Mus. 1752/1/4/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1752/1/4/4
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. Music for the film 'Coastal Command' (1942). Autograph parts, 2nd violins to bassi and 'Extra parts'
Scope & Content:
Second violins to bassi of set of orchestral parts for 'Coastal Command', chiefly autograph. Music for the film score marked with red, green and blue crayon for playing as a suite. In brown wrappers of Oxford University Press Music Department. Titles: Moderato (becomes Suite 1) Sequence 1, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
ii + 118 folios

8. MS Mus. 1752/1/4/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1752/1/4/5
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. Music for the film 'Coastal Command' (1942). Autograph parts for movement entitled 'Dawn patrol'
Scope & Content:
Set of orchestral parts for 'Dawn patrol' from the film music for 'Coastal Command'. Autograph, in ink with pencil and crayon markings; undated. Many in wrappers of Oxford University Press Hire Library. The title 'Dawn patrol' is on the wrappers only; the parts themselves are entitled 'Sequence 8...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
i + 67 folios

9. MS Mus. 1752/1/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1752/1/5/1
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. Sketches for Symphony no. 8, ‘A Shropshire Lad’, 'Sea Symphony’ and other works
Scope & Content:
(1). f. 1. Symphony no. 8; about 1953. Sketch leaf (ideas for vibraphone). (2.). ff. 2-22. Sketch book, 'Shropshire Lad notes'; 1909. Contains pencil and ink sketches for the song cycle 'On Wenlock Edge' and for the last movement of 'A Sea Symphony' (Symphony no. 1). (3). ff. 23-47. Sketch bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1903-c 1953
Extent:

91 folios

10. MS Mus. 1752/1/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1752/1/5/2
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. Draft score for 'Pilgrim's Progress', Act 1
Scope & Content:
'Pilgrim's Progress', Act 1; c 1950. Draft score in pencil and ink with extensive alterations and annotations in pencil and crayon, including many pasted-over alterations: (1). ff. 1-15. 'Prologue + Act I book I' (2). ff. 16-27. 'Pls Prog Act I' (3). ff. 28-84. 'PP Act I Book 3' (4). ff. 85-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1950?
Extent:
i + 124 folios