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4811. MS Mus. 1939

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1939
Title:
Frederick Delius: drafts for two movements of ‘A Mass of Life’, and sketch for an unknown orchestral work
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-3. Autograph composition drafts for two movements from ‘Eine Messe des Lebens’ (‘A Mass of Life’), Delius’s large-scale work based on Nietszche (Also sprach Zarathustra). Completed 1905. The musical material is on one partial bifolium and one complete bifolium. Both relate to the frag...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

4812. MS Mus. 1940

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1940
Title:
Frederick Delius: Violin Sonata No. 3, early draft for the first movement
Scope & Content:
One bifolium in Delius’s hand, containing an early version of the first movement of what was to become the third violin sonata (ff. 1-2). Also includes an extra leaf in the hand of Eric Fenby and Jelka Delius with 31 bars deleted (f. 3). Although the sonata was completed in 1930, sketch material ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1918-1930
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

4813. MS Mus. 1941

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1941
Title:
Gustav Holst: ‘Scherzo’ for orchestra, draft short score
Scope & Content:
Draft short score for the ‘Scherzo’ for orchestra, originally intended as a movement for a symphony. Covering six pages in all, on systems of two or three staves. In ink with further pencil annotations and pasted-down corrections (folios 3 and 4). Described by the composer as ‘Scherzo 1st sketch...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1934
Extent:
1 volume (i + 6 folios)

4814. MS Mus. 1942

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1942
Title:
Materials collected by Oliver Soden during research for his biography of Michael Tippett
Scope & Content:
Copies and original materials collected by Oliver Soden during research for this biography of Michael Tippett (Michael Tippett: The Biography, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2019). Details of individual donors of original materials have been included with descriptions of the material below. C...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930s-1980s
Extent:
2 files

4815. MS Mus. 1942/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1942/1
Title:
Material relating to Robin Hood and the early career of Michael Tippett
Scope & Content:
ff. i-ii. List of research materials deposited, compiled by Oliver Soden. (1). Programme book for the St Ives Festival of music and the arts, 6-14 June 1953, for which Tippett acted as co-director, together with Priaulx Rainier. (2). ff. 1-4. Copy of part of a typed autobiography by Frida Knig...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930s-1980s
Extent:
1 volume (12 items: 1 bound booklet and 74 folios)

4816. MS Mus. 1942/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1942/2
Title:
Copies of letters to Karl Hawker, from or concerning Michael Tippett
Scope & Content:
Copies of letters to Karl Hawker, provided with the permission of the owner of the originals. Order at point of donation has been retained. (1). ff. 1-36. Copies of 35 letters from Tippett to his partner Karl Hawker, in the wake of their split, 1960s-1980s. Not included in Selected Letters of M...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1 volume (56 folios)

4817. MS Mus. 1943

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1943
Title:
Letter from Michael Tippett to Evelyn Maude, written from Wormwood Scrubs, 1943
Scope & Content:
Letter from Michael Tippett to Evelyn Maude, written from Wormwood Scrubs, where Tippett was incarcerated from June to August 1943. The front of the letter carries official typed regulations of the prison authorities and Tippett has written on the remaining three sides of the bifolium. The top o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

4818. MS Mus. 1944

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1944
Title:
Papers of May and Beatrice Harrison
Scope & Content:
Postcards, letters, and music manuscript material relating to May Harrison, Beatrice Harrison, and other members of the Harrison family: 1. Assorted postcards sent to or from Beatrice and May Harrison, 1910-1950. 2. Letters to May Harrison, two concert programmes, and larger picture postcards;...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1910-1995
Extent:
3 files

4819. MS Mus. 1944/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1944/1
Title:
Postcards sent to and from Beatrice Harrison and May Harrison
Scope & Content:
Assorted postcards, 1910-1950, grouped as follows: - 24 postcards sent to or from members of the Harrison family, mostly Beatrice Harrison (“Baba”), 1910-1946. Correspondents include: Beatrice Harrison, May Harrison, Annie Harrison (mother), Monica Harrison, George Henschel, Cyril Scott, L. Har...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1910-1950
Extent:
1 folder

4820. MS Mus. 1944/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1944/2
Title:
Lettersto May Harrison and related papers
Scope & Content:
Letters to May Harrison from: Lilian Baylis about concert arrangements, 1937; Arnold Bax (letter, undated, and postcard, 1941); Edward Cameron together with signed concert programme, 1958); unidentified, 1956; John Gielgud (to “Miss Harrison”), 1957. - Programme for May Harrison and Sumner Aus...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1937-1995
Extent:
1 folder

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