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Archive Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 1738

1. MS Mus. 1738

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1738
Title:
Robert Simpson Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts of the composer Robert Simpson (b.1921; d.1997). Manuscripts are autograph except where specified otherwise.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-1997
Extent:

1 metre

2. MS Mus. 1738/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1738/1
Title:
Robert Simpson Manuscripts: Symphonies
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-1990
Extent:
13 volumes

3. MS Mus. 1738/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1738/1/1
Title:
Robert Simpson: Symphony no. 1
Scope & Content:
Score, in green ink, with various ink and pencil annotations. Dated at the end ‘21. vii. 1951 at Muswell Hill’. Submitted by the composer for his doctorate at the University of Durham in 1951. First performed in Copenhagen on 11 June 1953. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co, 1956.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951
Extent:
1 volume (i + 73 folios)

4. MS Mus. 1738/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1738/1/2
Title:
Robert Simpson: Symphony no. 2
Scope & Content:
Score, in ink, with numerous ink and pencil annotations. Dedicated to Anthony and Mary Bernard. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co., 1976.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1955-1956
Extent:
1 volume (iv + 94 folios)

5. MS Mus. 1738/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1738/1/3
Title:
Robert Simpson: Symphony no. 3
Scope & Content:
Commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and dedicated to Havergal Brian. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co., 1972; rev. ed. published 1974.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1961-1962
Extent:
2 volumes

6. MS Mus. 1738/1/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1738/1/3/1
Title:
Robert Simpson: Symphony no. 3. Draft score
Scope & Content:
In pencil, with many corrections and signs of sections having been rubbed out and re-worked. Pages 99-102 are wanting. Annotated ‘22.iv.61’ at the beginning and ‘12.55 a.m. 12.xi.62 at Chearsley’ at the end.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1961-1962
Extent:

1 volume (i + 104 folios)

7. MS Mus. 1738/1/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1738/1/3/2
Title:
Robert Simpson: Symphony no. 3. Fair copy score
Scope & Content:
In ink, with numerous ink amendments.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962
Extent:

1 volume (71 + 13* folios)

8. MS Mus. 1738/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1738/1/4
Title:
Robert Simpson: Symphony no. 4
Scope & Content:
Score, in pencil. Annotated ‘3.x.70’ at the beginning and ‘5.10 p.m. 13.ii.72 at Chearsley’ at the end. With a single leaf containing the solo cello part for the third movement, in ink, revised 26 October 1988 (f. 2). Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co., n.d.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1970-1988
Extent:
1 volume (142 folios)

9. MS Mus. 1738/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1738/1/5
Title:
Robert Simpson: Symphony no. 5
Scope & Content:
Score, in pencil. ‘Dedicated in admiration to The London Symphony Orchestra’ (f. 1). Annotated at the end ‘5.55 p.m. 10.xii.1972 at Chearsley’. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co., n.d.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1972
Extent:
1 volume (110 folios)

10. MS Mus. 1738/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1738/1/6
Title:
Robert Simpson: Symphony no. 6 (photocopy with autograph annotations)
Scope & Content:
Photocopy of the autograph manuscript, with a number of autograph corrections. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co., n.d.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1977
Extent:
1 volume (i + 72 folios)