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1. MS Mus. 1810

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810
Title:
O. W. Neighbour Collection of Music Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts collected by Oliver Wray Neighbour (1923-2015), former Music Librarian of the British Library. The collection reflects Neighbour's own scholarly interests, including items relating to Byrd and Schoenberg, for example, but also a diverse range of other composers, some not otherwi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Unspecified
Date Range:
1500-2015
Extent:
229 files

2. MS Mus. 1810/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/1
Title:
Franz Wilhelm Abt: Zwei (‘Auf hohem Berge’)
Scope & Content:
Choral song no. 2 for SATB from Abt’s Fünf Chor Gesänge, op. 152. Signed: ‘Franz Abt. Braunschweig, 16/7/61.’ Written in ink on a single sheet with 8 pre-printed staves, blue decorative floral borders and caption at the bottom middle reading: ‘Aus dem Album von Carl Gurckhaus’. Single leaf from ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

3. MS Mus. 1810/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/2
Title:
Charles-Valentin Alkan: ‘Zammerū la-’Ădhōnāi’ (Sing praises unto the Lord)
Scope & Content:
For piano. Published in Paris in 1844 by the Bureau Central de Musique as ‘Alleluia’, op. 25. French and Hebrew words.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

4. MS Mus. 1810/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/3
Title:
Thomas Attwood: ‘Fugue in E flat’
Scope & Content:
Published by John E. West in ‘Old English Organ Music’, no. 24, as no. 2 of ‘Two Pieces’ by Attwood, with the title ‘Cathedral Fugue’. Dated 7 July 1826.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

5. MS Mus. 1810/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/4
Title:
Daniel François-Esprit Auber: ‘Eh mais pourquoi’ and ‘Dans ce séjour’ from Marco Spada
Scope & Content:
‘Eh mais pourquoi’ and ‘Dans ce séjour’ for solo voice in vocal score from no.1, Cavatine, in Auber’s opera comique, Marco Spada. Written in ink. With some differences from the published score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

6. MS Mus. 1810/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/5
Title:
Georges Auric: ‘La fete du Duc’
Scope & Content:
‘La Fête du Duc’ (GA21). Song with words by Jean Cocteau. Dated: ’19 Novembre 1918’.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

7. MS Mus. 1810/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/6
Title:
Jean Barraqué, ‘Fragment de la Sonate pour piano’
Scope & Content:
Extract in Barraqué’s hand of his Sonate pour piano. A different version of page 9, line 4, bar 2 to page 14, line 3, bar 4 in the printed edition published, with modifications, by Bruzzichelli in 1965 as ‘Sonate pour Piano’. With performance annotations in the composer’s hand and a dedication on...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1949
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

8. MS Mus. 1810/7

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/7
Title:
Béla Bartók, ‘String Quartet no. 1’, Op. 7 (BB 52)
Scope & Content:
Sketch for the first 17 bars of the String Quartet no 1, dated 16 January 1908 and extracted from the ‘Black Pocket-Book’, between the present ff. 8 and 9. (for the facsimile edition of 1987, see British Library, a.264.). On 7, 9 and 14 January Bartók had described his feelings at his rejection...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

9. MS Mus. 1810/8

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/8
Title:
Sir Arnold Bax: Music for the film ‘Oliver Twist’ (1948), directed by David Lean
Scope & Content:
Sir Arnold Bax: music for the film ‘Oliver Twist’ (director David Lean); 1948. Full score. With a detailed music cue sheet, and dossier regarding the contractual rights and obligations of those involved in the production, both typewritten The manuscript comprises some 80% of the music for the fi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
1 file

10. MS Mus. 1810/9

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/9
Title:
Vincenzo Bellini: ‘Coro d’Armigeri’ from Beatrice di Tenda
Scope & Content:
Leaf from the 'Coro d’Armigeri' in Act 1 of Beatrice di Tenda, in score. The first 4 bars correspond to bars 4–7 on p. 229 of Act 1 in the published score (Roma: Nella stamperia di Pietro Pittarelli e co., ca. 1840), and the indication that 28 bars are to be repeated also agrees (the 28 bars star...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)