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1. Tyson MS

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS
Title:
Tyson Collection
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts of the musicologist and collector Alan Walker Tyson (b.1926, d.2000): 1732 – circa 1970, n.d. The collection also includes printed music and books, which are catalogued separately. For a description of the collection, see O. W. Neighbour, ‘The Tyson Collection’, The British Lib...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1732-c 1970
Extent:
25 items

2. Tyson MS 7-8

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 7-8
Title:
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Serenada à 2. Violini, 2. Flauti, 2. Corni, Viola e Basso, del Sgr. Hayden’ in D major, Hob.II/D3; late 18th or early 19th cent, circa 1970. Copies, in ink. The title is written on the second horn part (f. 1). This serenade is listed as by Haydn in Breitkopf & Härtel’s catalogue of 1768, but apparently no other manuscript sources of it are known. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:
Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Alan Walker Tyson, musicologist: Parts for Serenada, Hob.II/D3 by Franz Joseph Haydn, with score in the hand of Alan Walker Tyson: late 18th or early 19th cent.; circa 1970: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1760-1975
Extent:
2 items

3. Tyson MS 11 H

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 11 H
Title:
MUZIO CLEMENTI: Piano sonata in A flat major; circa 1970. Copy in pencil and ink, in the hand of Alan Tyson, with annotations in pencil in German, probably in the hand of Sonja Gerlach. Numbered ‘WO 13’ in A. Tyson, Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Muzio Clementi (Tutzing, 1967). This transcription was apparently made from the autograph in the Bibliothèque nationale de France for inclusion in Tyson and Gerlach’s edition of Clementi, Klaviersonaten (vol. I, Munich: Henle, 1978), but was not...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 53-63 Alan Walker Tyson, musicologist: Muzio Clementi, composer: Sonja Gerlach, musicologist: Piano sonata in A flat major, WO 13, by Muzio Clementi, in the hand of Alan Walker Tyson, with annotations by Sonja Gerlach: circa 1970: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1970
Extent:
1 item

4. Tyson MS 24 F

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 24 F
Title:
F. WARLOCK: ‘The Fairest May’, song (words anonymous, from Harley 7578); 6 Nov. 1930. A rewriting of the song ‘As ever I saw’ for voice and string quartet. Autograph score and parts, in ink. The original title is deleted and replaced on the score, but remains on the parts. With a letter from Ian Copley to Tyson, dated 11 Sept. 1965 (ff. 71-2). Original version for voice and piano published Winthrop Rogers, 1919. Purchased by Tyson at Sotheby’s, 20 July 1965 (lot 425). ff. 57-72. 310 x 237mm...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 71-2 Ian Alfred Copley, composer: Alan Walker Tyson, musicologist: Letter to Alan Walker Tyson from Ian Alfred Copley: 1965: Typewritten, signed.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Nov 1930
Extent:
1 item

5. Tyson MS 25

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 25
Title:
Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS OF MUSICIANS AND OTHERS; 1806-1965, n.d. ff. 37. Overall size 283 x 247mm. 1. ff. 1-5. Correspondence relating to a letter of 1790 from Clemens August von Schall to Amtsgerichtsrath Degen revealing that the author of the text of Beethoven’s early cantata WoO 87 (and appar...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1806-1965
Extent:
1 item