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1. Add MS 69827

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Title:
Edward Elgar: Choral works, 1905-1914
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-11. 'An evening scene', part song for SATB (words, Coventry Patmore), with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only; 1905. Ink, with annotations in pencil which include the composer's instructions to the printer, and with the printer's markings added. With a printed copy of the words (f. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1914
Extent:
1 volume (50 folios)

2. Add MS 69828

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Title:
Edward Elgar: Sketches, etc., for 'Carillon' and 'Le drapeau belge'
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-21. 'Carillon', recitation with orchestra (poem, Émile Cammaerts), op. 75; [1914]. Published in piano reduction in King Albert's Book (London: Daily Telegraph, 1914). For autograph full score see Add. 58039. Comprising: (a) Printed copy of the poem mounted on to a leaf, annotated by the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1914-1916
Extent:
1 volume (22 folios)

3. Add MS 69829

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Polonia', symphonic prelude, op. 76. Sketches
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-3. Printed copy of Trzy polskie narodowe hymny, arranged for piano by R. Hill (Moscow: Jurgenson, n.d.). Manuscript additions include musical annotations by Elgar to no. 3, 'Jeszcze polska nie zginela'. 360 x 270mm. 2. ff. 4-25. Complete draft in piano score (ff. 4-19), with miscellan...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume (i + 28 folios)

4. Add MS 69830

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Polonia', symphonic prelude, op. 76. Conductor's score
Scope & Content:
Short score on one or two staves, with instrumental cues. Only partly autograph, headed 'Guida' in Elgar's hand.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1915]
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)

5. Add MS 69831

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Une voix dans le désert', for voice and orchestra (words, Émile Cammaerts), op. 77
Scope & Content:
First World War composition. Vocal score published London: Elkin, 1916. Additional wind parts, 'for theatre performances ad. lib.' (f. 1), in full score. MS Facs. 1044/1, 2 is a copy of this score and of an autograph score for voice and strings. For autograph piano score see Add. 52529.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1915]
Extent:
1 volume (5 folios)

6. Add MS 69835

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Fringes of the Fleet'. Sketches
Scope & Content:
Single leaves of sketches in vocal score, and related material. As follows: 1. f. 1. 'The Lowestoft Boat', headed 'a roving. Fringes'. 300 x 240mm. 2. f. 2. 'Fate's Discourtesy', headed 'Kipling V'. 280 x 215mm. 3. ff. 3, 4. 'Submarines', two leaves each headed 'Kipling IV'. 270 x 215mm. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
1 volume (11 folios)

7. Add MS 69836

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Fringes of the Fleet'. Photographs
Scope & Content:
Album of photographs of the first production of Elgar's `Fringes of the Fleet', at the Coliseum June 1917.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1917
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 13 folios)

8. Add MS 69837

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'The Sanguine Fan'. Scenario and related material
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-9. Typewritten scenario with the title 'The Sanguine Fan' (f. 1), altered in manuscript to 'Echo' (f. 3), with the name of Lady George Cholmondeley added in manuscript on the title-page (f. 1). Includes typewritten revised leaves inserted and annotated further. 275 x 215mm. 2. ff. 10-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

9. Add MS 69838

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'The Sanguine Fan'. Composition draft in piano score
Scope & Content:
Dated 'Feby 1917' (f. 1). Ink and pencil. With occasional indications as to the orchestration, which is listed on f. 1, and revised leaves pasted down. At the end of the volume is material for the Introduction (f. 28v) and an A major version of the 'Shepherd's Dance' (f. 29) which appears in G m...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1917
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

10. Add MS 69839

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'The Sanguine Fan'. Short score sometimes on one stave only, with occasional indications of orchestration
Scope & Content:
Ink and pencil. 'Pianoforte sketch', and 'Conductor' both written on the cover. Includes 'Shepherd's dance' on an inserted bifolium (ff. 18-19).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1917]
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 27 folios)