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1. MS Mus. 1747

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts, papers and photographs relating to the life and musical career of Humphrey Searle, CBE (1915–1982), composer, broadcaster and Liszt scholar. As a whole this material should be regarded as a continuation of the existing Humphrey Searle collection (Add MS 71721-71862). Although ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1915-1995
Extent:

62 volumes

2. MS Mus. 1747/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/1
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music
Scope & Content:
Arrangement generally follows the pattern of Add MS. 71721-71862. Within broad categories of orchestra, instrumental and vocal works, the scores are arranged by opus no. or date.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943-c 1982
Extent:
17 volumes

3. MS Mus. 1747/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/1/1
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Orchestral works
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-7r. "Night Music", op. 2, 1943. For chamber orchestra. Pencil score (with some notation in ink). Deposit 97/07. 2. ff. 7v-15. Piano concerto no. 1, op. 5, 1944. Beginning of the first movement. The rest of this work's first movement, along with its second and third movements, can be foun...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940-1979
Extent:
1 box (i, 171 folios)

4. MS Mus. 1747/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/1/2
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Instrumental and chamber music
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-4r. "Intermezzo", for 11 instruments, op. 8, 1946. Pencil score, autograph. Deposit 2006/02. 2. ff. 4v-11. "Ballade", for piano, op. 10, 1947. Pencil score, autograph. Deposit 2006/02.3. f. 12. "Quartet", op. 12, 1948. Fragment. Score in ink. Originally interleaved with score of "Night M...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946-1976
Extent:
i, 92 folios

5. MS Mus. 1747/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/1/3
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Vocal works
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947-1980
Extent:
4 volumes

6. MS Mus. 1747/1/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/1/3/1
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Vocal works
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-23. "Put Away the Flutes" for high voice, flute, oboe and string quartet, op. 11, 1947. A setting of words by W.R. Rodgers. Autograph pencil score and two annotated copies of the printed score, published by Lengnick; one of the copies signed "René Soames". Possibly used for the performan...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947-1976
Extent:
1 volume (152 folios). Wanting folio 101.

7. MS Mus. 1747/1/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/1/3/2
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Vocal works: 'Fantasia on British airs' for five military bands, tenor and chorus,instrumental parts: dyeline copies, part 1
Scope & Content:
Op. 68, for 5 military bands, tenor and chorus, 1976. Dyeline copies from original transparencies under 1/3/1, some multiple, for the instruments listed below. Annotated in pencil. In an episode described in chapter 18 of 'Quadrille with a Raven', Searle’s autobiography (see MS Mus. 1747/2/6), t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1976
Extent:
125 folios

8. MS Mus. 1747/1/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/1/3/3
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Vocal works: 'Fantasia on British airs' for five military bands, tenor and chorus, instrumental parts: dyeline copies, part 2
Scope & Content:
Op. 68, for 5 military bands, tenor and chorus, 1976. Dyeline copies from original transparencies under 1/3/1, some multiple, for the instruments listed below. In an episode described in chapter 18 of 'Quadrille with a Raven', Searle’s autobiography (see MS Mus. 1747/2/6), these copies were made...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1976
Extent:
117 folios

9. MS Mus. 1747/1/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/1/3/4
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Vocal works. Music. Vocal works (late or without opus number)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-14. "A Nocturnall upon St Lucie’s Day", op. 63, 1974. For voice and piano. A setting of words by John Donne. Photocopy of score. At end of score, "London July 1974". ff. 15-16. "The Apollonian Whale", for cello, voice and piano, op. 74, 1980. Photocopy of (missing) ink score. Words by Mil...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-1980
Extent:
46 folios

10. MS Mus. 1747/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/1/4
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Music. Stage works and incidental music for stage, radio, television and film
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1955-1968
Extent:
4 volumes