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Archive Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 1804 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

141. MS Mus. 1804/3/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/3/2/4
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'Echoes Through Time'. Vocal scores and correction sheets
Scope & Content:
(1.) Vocal score; May 1989. In a bound photocopied booklet, with the corrections annotated in red ink. Foliated by the composer. Includes two blank but foliated pages for the Prologue, but does not include the tape-only Epilogues. (2.) List of errata in parts, photocopied. (3.) 4 'correction shee...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1988-1989
Extent:
1 volume

142. MS Mus. 1804/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/3/3
Title:
Thea Musgrave: choral works: 'Midnight', 'On the Underground' sets 1, 2 and 3, 'Going North'
Scope & Content:
(1.) 'Midnight', for SATB choir, words by John Keats; 1992. Sketches and composition draft. (2.) 'On the Underground Set no. 1 (On gratitude, love & Madness)', for SATB choir, words by James Berry, Sheenagh Pugh, W.B. Yeats, Stevie Smith, Adrienne Rich and Emily Dickinson; 1994. Sketches; sco...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1992-2004
Extent:
1 volume

143. MS Mus. 1804/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/3/4
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'Voices of Power and Protest', a dramatic concert work for unaccompanied chorus
Scope & Content:
Previously known as 'Voices of Warning and Pity'. (1.) Series of drawings illustrating plot and choreography, with notes and plans. (2.) 'Making the libretto; 1977-2007. Libretto sketches and drafts, including typewritten, and computer-typeset material. (3.) Annotated libretto drafts, 8 versions...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1977-2006
Extent:
1 volume

144. MS Mus. 1804/3/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/3/5
Title:
Thea Musgrave choral works: 'Ithaca' and four others
Scope & Content:
(1.) ff. 1-60. 'Ithaca', for unaccompanied chorus, words by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Avi Sharon; 2009–2010? Sketches; composition draft; score. Message from Musgrave to Robert Worby relating to preparation for a radio programme. (2.) ff. 61-74. 'Starlight', for unaccompanied chorus, words by He...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2009-2013
Extent:
1 volume

145. MS Mus. 1804/3/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/3/6
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'The Voices of our Ancestors'
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2013-2014
Extent:
1 volume

146. MS Mus. 1804/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/4
Title:
Thea Musgrave: Solo vocal works
Scope & Content:
Except where otherwise stated: Documents comprising music notation are autograph manuscripts by the composer. Sketches (including diagrams and structural outlines) are on paper, in inks and pencil, the leaves foliated and dated. Composition drafts (often described by the composer as 'final...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-2011
Extent:

7 volumes

147. MS Mus. 1804/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/4/1
Title:
Thea Musgrave: Solo vocal works: 'Songs to poems by Pound and MacNiece' and five others
Scope & Content:
(1.) Five songs to poems by Ezra Pound and Louis Macneice, for baritone and piano; 1951. The titles of the songs are: 'Δώρια' (also known as 'Be in me'); 'Aubade'; 'Dance figure'; 'An immorality'; 'The Return'. Scores; programme for a performance on 16 May 1951 at the Cercle de l'Union Interallié...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-1956
Extent:
1 volume

148. MS Mus. 1804/4/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/4/2
Title:
Thea Musgrave: Solo vocal works: 'Sir Patrick Spens' and three others
Scope & Content:
(1.) 'Sir Patrick Spens', ballad for tenor and guitar; 1961. Words traditional Scottish.Sketches, including a tone-matrix; score. (2.) 'Primavera', for soprano and flute; 1970-1971. Words by Amalia Elguera. Sketches, score, letter from Amalia Elguera. (3.) 'Wild Winter I: Lamentations for voices ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1961-1998
Extent:
1 volume

149. MS Mus. 1804/4/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/4/3
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'Three Women' (chamber version) for soprano, narrator, and eight instrumentalists
Scope & Content:
(1.) Libretto; 1998. Computer-typed. (2.) Score, 'MS 3 Women chamber music 1998 summer'. Including a diagram with a suggested percussion layout marked 'for Copyist'.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1998
Extent:
1 volume

150. MS Mus. 1804/4/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/4/4
Title:
Thea Musgrave: Solo vocal works: 'The Mocking-Bird', 'Ca' the Yowes', 'A Winter's Morning'
Scope & Content:
(1.) 'The Mocking-Bird', a chamber opera in one act, for baritone, flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello; 1986–2000. Words by the composer, based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce. Unpublished, but available on hire. Initial libretto draft, initial music sketch...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2000-2008
Extent:
1 volume