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Archive Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 1178-1193

11. MS Mus. 1184

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1184
Title:
John Gerrard Williams Collection: Vocal Works
Scope & Content:
Autograph scores, as follows: 1. ff.1-6. ‘Seven Songs’, words, F. Wyville Home; 1911-1912. Dedicated ‘To my Mother’. The songs are ‘The Morning of Love’, begins ‘Heart, my heart, what moves within you’; May 1911 (ff. 1v-2r); - ‘Serenade’, begins ‘Now hither, my own heart’s lover’ (f. 2v); - ‘Why...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-ca 1924
Extent:
1 volume (73 folios)

12. MS Mus. 1185

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1185
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: Suite in G and Variations on an Original Theme
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-4v. ‘Suite in G for Strings in the Old Style’. Composed Sept.-Feb. 1912, revised May-June 1913 (f. 1.) 2. ff. 5-45v. Variations on an Original Theme. Versions for full orchestra (ff. 5-28); - string orchestra, dated August 1913 (ff. 29-34); - string quartet, dated August 1913 (ff. 35-39)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1912-1913
Extent:
1 volume (45 folios)

13. MS Mus. 1185-1191

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1185-1191
Title:
John Gerrard Williams Collection: Instrumental Works
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscripts.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1945
Extent:
7 volumes

14. MS Mus. 1186

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1186
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: String Quartet in F minor
Scope & Content:
Dated Dec. 1914-Jan. 1915 (f. 1) and 31 Jan. 1915 (f. 11).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913-1915
Extent:
1 volume (11 folios)

15. MS Mus. 1187

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1187
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: Miscellaneous Instrumental Works
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1- 33. String Quartet no. 2. Published J. Curwen & Sons, 1921. Manuscript score (ff. 1-10v); Oct. 1919 (f. 1); - printed ‘correction copy’ (ff. 12-33); 1921. 2. ff. 34-60. ‘Facets - Aspects of an Original Theme for Orchestra’; dated Oct.-Nov. 1945 (f. 34). Sketches and draft score. Bas...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1945
Extent:
1 volume (165 folios)

16. MS Mus. 1188

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1188
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: ‘Ring Up the Curtain, a Harlequinade for Orchestra’
Scope & Content:
With verses by Rodney Bennett. Autograph full score, annotated ‘Composed Sept. 1925’, and ‘orchestrated July 1926’ (f. 24). Published W. Paxton & Co., 1926.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1926
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)

17. MS Mus. 1189

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1189
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: ‘Elegiac Rhapsody, In Memoriam EBW’, for orchestra
Scope & Content:
Written in memory of the composer's mother, Edith Beatrice Williams. Full score, dated 1929 (f. 3). For other scores, see MS Mus. 1187.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
1 volume (35 folios)

18. MS Mus. 1190

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1190
Title:
John Gerrard Williams, Arthur Bliss and others: ‘Suite: Captions, being five glimpses of an anonymous theme’, for small orchestra
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscripts of movements by Arthur Bliss, Eugene Goossens, Felix White and John Gerrard Williams. The suite, comprising five variations on a theme of Herbert Bedford, was first performed in London in 1923. The second variation, ‘The Lonely Dancer of Gedar’, by Herbert Bedford, is lacki...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 41 folios)

19. MS Mus. 1191

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1191
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: ‘Pot-Pourri, A Cycle of Fragments for Orchestra’
Scope & Content:
Full score. Dated 24 Dec. 1918 (f. 14), 19 Jan. 1919, and annotated 'orchestrated Oct.-Nov. 1920' (f. 16). Published by Novello, 1921.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1920
Extent:
1 volume (16 folios)

20. MS Mus. 1192

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1192
Title:
John Gerrard Williams: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook containing a manuscript list of works, a manuscript copy of an article by John Gerrard Williams, published in The Sackbut, October 1921, on 'Trained verses Untrained Composers', and press cuttings of reviews of the composer’s works.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1920-1921
Extent:
1 volume (85 folios)