1. MS Mus. 97
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2. MS Mus. 147
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 147
- Title:
- Edward Elgar: ‘Polonia’, symphonic prelude for orchestra, op.76
- Scope & Content:
- Copyist’s full score in ink with autograph annotations in red ink and red crayon and further annotations, in pencil, in a third hand. f. i is a Novello hire library label. The stamp of Elkin & Co. Ltd is on f. 2. This score appears to have been copied from the autograph full score, Add MS 52...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [1915]
- Extent:
- 1 volume (i + 145 folios)
3. MS Mus. 1040
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1040
- Title:
- Part of a manuscript leaf in the hand of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- Scope & Content:
- The upper half of a divided leaf of manuscript paper containing music in Mozart's hand. On one side is a cadenza to a piano concerto by Ignaz von Beecke, on the other a minuet for string quartet (K.168a). The lower half of the leaf is now at British Library Add MS 47861 A, f. 10. The leaf is bel...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- Unspecified
- Extent:
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1 item
4. MS Mus. 1587
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1587
- Title:
- MS Mus. 1587. George Frideric Handel: Keyboard music; between circa 1717 and 1775. Sonatas, suites and other works for keyboard instrument by Handel and other composers. Copy in ink. The first part of the manuscript (ff. 1-52r) was made by the copyist RM1 in about 1717. (For copyists, see J. P. Larsen: Handel’s Messiah: Origins, Composition, Sources (Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard, 1957)). This is apparently the earliest surviving English copy of Handel’s keyboard music. In this part of the ma...
- Scope & Content:
- includes: ff. 1-46 James Stevens, composer and pianist: 'Concertetto concitato', for piano and orchestra: circa 1960: Photocopy. ff. 1-52r. George Frideric Handel, composer: Keyboard suites, HWV 426-432, 434, 438. Not all complete, and some with additional movements from HWV 8, 428, 442, 495, 5...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1712-1775
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. MS Mus. 1745/2/11/5
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1745/2/11/5
- Title:
- Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 5
- Scope & Content:
- Most of the notebook is unused. f. 140. Heading: 'Zarathustra' above 5 bars in ink. f. 140v. Heading: 'Har du sikt Pan'. f. 143. Heading: 'Prelude 3rd Act R & J' (although the draft beneath is for the Interlude in Act 3). 'Chorus' (ink) in the right margin. ff. 144, 144v and 145 each bear th...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- [1904]-[1907]
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (folios 140-153)
6. MS Mus. 1745/2/13/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1745/2/13/1
- Title:
- Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Piano Concerto; Paris
- Scope & Content:
- (1). Piano Concerto (ff. 1-105) Threlfall, VII/4. (a) ff. 1-15. Various separate sheets of drafts of earlier versions in full score, comprising: ff. 1-3. Paginated pp. 19-20 and pp. 21-24 (1 folio and 1 bifolium, 26-stave 400 x 302mm.): ink over pencil, partly scored on p. 19, with the piano par...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- [1897]-1900
- Extent:
- 1 file (137 folios)
7. MS Mus. 1745/2/13/5
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1745/2/13/5
- Title:
- Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Appalachia; The Song of the High Hills; Requiem; various sketches and drafts; and drafts for an unfinished work for piano and orchestra
- Scope & Content:
- (1). Appalachia: sketches and drafts (ff. 1-44) Threlfall, II/2. Comprising material for the earlier version(s) and material for the later version. Followed by 6 large sheets on the rectos of which are pencilled part of an early score of the Piano Concerto; the versos, however, comprise draft ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- [1896]-[1905]
- Extent:
- 1 file (147 folios)
8. MS Mus. 1769
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1769
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: Music for the film Instruments of the Orchestra, later published as The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations on a theme of Purcell), op. 34. Autograph draft
- Scope & Content:
- Draft score. The music was originally composed for the film Instruments of the Orchestra (1946). No earlier sketches are known to survive, and it seems that Britten composed the piece directly into the present draft score. The title-page bears Britten's signature and the words 'Orchestral Film' ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1945
- Extent:
- 1 volume (15 folios)
9. MS Mus. 1787
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1787
- Title:
- Johann Christian Bach: ‘Figli addio’, aria from Carattaco, Warburton G7/21b, for soprano, 2 violins, viola and cello
- Scope & Content:
- Copyist’s score, in ink. The opera seria Carattaco (words, Giovan Gualberto Bottarelli) was first performed at the King’s Theatre, London on 14 February 1767. The present version of the aria differs in its scoring from the version preserved in J.C. Bach’s autograph score (Conservatoire royal de B...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1767
- Extent:
-
1 volume (3 folios)
10. MS Mus. 1818
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1818
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: 'Se tu non lasci Amore', autograph
- Scope & Content:
- "Se tu non lasci Amore", by George Frideric Handel, for two soprano voices, bass voice and continuo. HWV 201a. Autograph score. In ink on paper ruled with 8 staves. Four gatherings, loosely bound with string. Title on score "Terzetto". Together with an autograph letter from King George III to Mr...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 1708
- Extent:
-
iii, 16 folios (1 letter, 1 engraving and 1 score)