Project / Collection: Europeana Collections 1914-1918 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54369
Title:: George Butterworth: Vocal and piano pieces
Scope & Content:: Autograph unless otherwise stated. 1. ff. 1-13v. Six songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' (words, Housman), for voice and piano; 1909-1911. 2. ff. 14-27. 'Bredon Hill' and other songs (words, Housman), for voice and piano; 1909-1911. 3. ff. 28-30. 'On Christmas Night', English traditional carol, f...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1909-1920
Extent:: 1 volume (75 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54391
Title:: Frederick Delius: Arrangements
Scope & Content:: Arrangements of works by Delius, as follows: 1. ff. 1-16. Violin Concerto, for violin and piano; [1919]. 2. ff. 17-32. Double Concerto, for violin, cello and piano; [1920]. 3. ff. 33-65. 'North Country Sketches', for piano duet; [1921]. 4. ff. 66-71. 'A Song before Sunrise', for piano due...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1919-1922
Extent:: 1 volume (85 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 56099
Title:: SIEGFRIED SASSOON: letters to his uncle, Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, R.A., with some related correspondence; circa 1906-1966, n.d. Partly type-written. Most of the letters were written during Sassoon's period of war service. Presented by Mrs Elfrida Mary Manning, daughter of Sir Hamo Thornycroft, 13 Dec. 1969. Paper; ff. 53. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:: Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, author and poet: Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor: Letters to Sir William Hamo Thornycroft from Siegfried Loraine Sassoon: circa 1906-circa 1925. includes: f. 17 Michael Sassoon, brother of Siegfried Sassoon: Letter to Sir W. H. Thornycroft: 1917. f. 19 Harold ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1906-1966
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 56478
Title:: John Foulds: 'A World Requiem', for soli, chorus, orchestra and organ, op. 60
Scope & Content:: Text from the Bible, the Requiem Mass, the Benedicite, Kabir, John Bunyan and Maud MacCarthy. Full score and associated materials. The score and some of the associated papers have been annotated and signed 'O.P.' (i.e. Maud MacCarthy, afterwards Swami Omananda Puri, wife of John Foulds). For fur...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1920-1965
Extent:: 1 volume (xli + 236 +55*, 133*, 133**, 162*, 164*, 172*, 172**, 189*, 197*, 223* folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57880
Title:: Gustav Holst: Vocal music
Scope & Content:: Mostly annotated engraver's scores. 1. ff. 1-2v. 'The Swallow leaves her nest' for SSA (beg. 'The last sunbeam lightly falls', words: Thomas Lovell Beddoes), H 119; n.d. Score with practice piano part. Mostly autograph. Annotated in red ink and pencil. Published J. Curwen & Sons, 1914. Pre...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1914-1925
Extent:: 1 volume (65+41*, 41**, 43* folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57881
Title:: Gustav Holst: 'The Planets', H 125
Scope & Content:: Arrangements for two pianos. Partly autograph. 1. ff. 1-40. 'Jupiter'; [1914]. Partly autograph. Annotated in red ink and pencil. Published 1951. 2. ff. 41-47. 'Saturn'; [1915]. Copy. Annotated in red ink and pencil. Published 1951. 3. ff. 48-62. 'Uranus'; [1915]. Mostly autograph. Annotat...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1914-1915]
Extent:: 1 volume (62 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57887
Title:: Gustav Holst: 'Ode to Death' for SATB chorus and orchestra (words: Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass, 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'), op. 38, H 144
Scope & Content:: Full score. Mostly autograph but some words in another hand. Annotated in red ink, pencil and crayon.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1919
Extent:: 1 volume (i+ 21 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58003
Title:: Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma'), op.36. Sketches
Scope & Content:: Sketches in ink and pencil. Annotated in blue and green crayon and red ink.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: [1898-1899]
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 32 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58004
Title:: Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma'), op. 36. Full score
Scope & Content:: 'commenced Feb. 5th 1899 ended Feb. 19th 1899 Malvern'. Annotated in red ink, blue and purple crayon, and with printer's pencil markings. Dedicated 'To my friends pictured within'. Note (f. 1) of first performance at St James's Hall, London, 19 June 1899, conducted by Hans Richter.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1899
Extent:: 1 volume (94 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58006
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Pomp and circumstance No. 1 in D, Quick March', op. 39 no. 1
Scope & Content:: Full score. Signed 'Birchwood Jul. 1901' (f. 17v). Annotated in red ink, pencil and crayon and with engraver's pencil markings. Dedicated to Alfred E. Rodewald and the Members of the Liverpool Orchestral Society.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1901
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 17 folios)

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