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1. Add MS 46857-46863

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ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION Second Series (Vols. XVIII-XXIV) Early musical works, mostly unpublished, and miscellaneous sketches of Ethel Mary Smyth, D.B.E. 1922 (b. 1858, d. 1944), supplementary to Add. MSS. 45934-45950; 1876-1930. Mostly autograph. Most of the early works cannot be exactly dated but were probably written during the composer's first years at Leipzig, 1877-1882. Some of the music paper used bears the stamp of a Florentine stationer and dates presumably from her visits there in 1...
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Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE; composer: Early compositions and sketches: 1876-1930.: Mostly autogr. Mrs Lincoln Cary Elwes, d 1948 niece of Dame Ethel Smyth: Presented in her name: 1949.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876-1930
Extent:
7 items

2. Add MS 46863

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ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vol. XXIV (ff. 74). Drafts and sketches; circ. 1877-1930. Arranged chronologically so far as possible, followed by miscellaneous fragments (ff. 33-74b) mostly unidentified. The dates given are those of publication unless otherwise stated. As follows:-(1) 'Tragi- Komische ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1930
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 46860

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ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vol. XXI (ff. 35). Early works for strings, organ, etc.; circ. 1882-1884, n.d. Viz.:-(1) Three separate movements for string quartet, all imperfect at the end, in E minor, C (Andante non troppo) and C (Allegro ma non troppo) headed 'Hildebrand Quartett', a reference to th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1882-1884
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 46862

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ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vol. XXIII (ff. ii+230). Larger works:-(1) 'The Song of Love', op. 8, a setting for soprano and tenor soli, chorus and orchestra of parts of the Song of Solomon; 1888 (f. i). Vocal score (ff. 1-62b) and full score (ff. 63-212). ff. 1-212;-(2) 'Symphonie für kleines Orches...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 46858

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ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vol. XIX (ff. 159). Early string quartets, in score; ? 1878-1884, n.d. Viz.:-(1) Quartet in A minor 'Nro 1' (one movement only, Allegro moderato);? 1878 (cf. Dale, p. 332). ff. 1-15b;-(2) Quartet in D minor; 19 Jan.-Feb. 1880. See Dale, p. 332. ff. 17-49b;-(3) Quartet in ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
? 1878-1884
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 46859

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ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vol. XX (ff. i+88). Parts for the string quartets in Vol. XIX, artt. (3) and (4); n.d. Viz.:-(1) Parts for the first, third (lacking 'cello part) and fourth movement of the quartet in E flat. Copies. Preceded (f. 1) by an incomplete autograph piano score of the third move...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1876-1930]
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 46861

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ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vol. XXII (ff. 91). Early vocal works; 1876-circ. 1886. As follows:-(1) 'We watched her breathing thro' the Night', part-song for S.A.T.B.; 1876. ff. 1-2;-(2) Exercises in four-part writing in chorale tunes; 17, 19 June, 10 July 1879 (f. 9). ff. 3-1lb;-(3) Five sacred par...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876-c 1886
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 46857

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ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vol. XVIII (ff. 90). Exercises and early works for piano, including some incomplete drafts; 1877-1880, n.d. As follows:-(1) '(Verhältnissmässig) Unbedeutendere Stücke aus der Jugendzeit von E.M.S.', consisting of five dances (of which no. 3 is missing). ff. 1-4;-(2) Four ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877-1880
Extent:
1 item