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Container Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 289-292

1. MS Mus. 289

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MS Mus. 289
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Scope & Content:
MS Mus. 289. SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT: music manuscripts; 1952 – [1970?] . Purchased at Sotheby’s, 4 Dec. 1998 (lots 315-317). ff. 43. 1. ff. 1-11. ‘Dance, Clarion Air, a madrigal for five voices’ (words, Christopher Fry), from ‘A Garland for the Queen’; 1952. Score, in black ink, with text in blue...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-1971
Extent:
1 item

2. MS Mus. 290

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MS Mus. 290
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Scope & Content:
MS Mus. 290. SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT: ‘Byzantium’, for soprano and orchestra; [1989-90]. Three discarded leaves from the draft score. Autograph, in pencil, annotated and crossed through in red ink, each leaf signed by the composer in black ink. The draft full score from which they were discarded is ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1989-1990]
Extent:
1 item

3. MS Mus. 291-292

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 291-292
Title:
MSS Mus. 291-292. SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT: letters (156) and postcards (33) to Douglas Newton (b.1920, d.2001); 1939-1946, n.d. With various other letters, which are listed in the index. Newton was at the time a freelance journalist, script-writer and poet, and later became director of the Rockefeller Museum of Primitive Art, subsequently the Department of Primitive Art of the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Purchased from John Amis, Esq., 14 July 1996. Two volumes. Overall size 280 x 255mm.
Scope & Content:
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, OM; CH; composer: Brean Leslie Douglas Newton, poet, museum curator and oceanic art specialist: Letters to Brean Leslie Douglas Newton from Sir Michael Kemp Tippett: 1939-46, n.d.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-1946
Extent:
2 items