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101. MS Mus. 410

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MS Mus. 410
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MS Mus. 410. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. lxxxv. ‘Macbeth’, incidental music to Shakespeare’s play, for chamber orchestra, with settings of the song-texts; [1947]. Short score, in ink. Written for the production by Michael Redgrave at the Aldwych Theatre, Dec. 1947. ff. 23. 358 x 268mm. William ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1947]
Extent:
1 item

102. MS Mus. 409

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MS Mus. 409
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MS Mus. 409. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. lxxxiv. ‘The Living English’. ff. i + 87. 358 x 263mm. 1. ff. 1-12. Script. Typewritten, with annotations in pencil and red crayon. Three copies, variously annotated by Bush and others. 2. ff. 13-25. Vocal score, in ink. With a note on f. 18 that the sc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

103. MS Mus. 449

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MS Mus. 449
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Alan Bush Collection. Correspondence with Sir Michael Tippett
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Correspondence between Alan Bush and Michael Tippett. 164 letters.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1934-1990
Extent:
1 volume

104. MS Mus. 398-399

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MS Mus. 398-399
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MSS Mus. 398, 399. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxxiii, lxxiv. Full score, in pencil (MS Mus. 398, nos 5 and 6 and MS Mus. 399, nos 1 and 10 in ink). The versos of ff. 61-5 have a draft score in pencil of parts of another orchestral piece. Two volumes. 355 x 265mm.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Czech, English, and Slovak
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items

105. MS Mus. 329-331

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MS Mus. 329-331
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MSS Mus. 329-331. Alan Bush Collection. Vols iv-vi. Concerto for piano and orchestra, op.18; 1936-37. The last movement includes a setting of words by Randall Swingler for baritone solo and male chorus. Dedicated to Nancy Bush. Reduction for two pianos published Joseph Williams, 1938; full score issued by the composer in a limited edition reproduced from the autograph full score, 1956. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:
Nancy Rachel Bush, wife of Alan Bush, composer: Compositions by A. D. Bush , dedicated to Nancy Rachel Bush: 1936-87. Randall Carline Swingler, poet and novelist: Settings of his verse in compositions of A. D. Bush: 1936-71.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936-1937
Extent:
3 items

106. MS Mus. 357

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MS Mus. 357
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MS Mus. 357. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. xxxii. Chamber music; [1972-75]. ff. 146. 370 x 273mm. 1. ff. 1-13. ‘Corentyne Kwe-kwe’, for piano solo, op.75 [listed as op.76]; [1972]. In ink. ‘Dedicated to those men and women of Guyana who faced a British warship and stood their ground’ (f. 1). The ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1972-1975
Extent:
1 item

107. MS Mus. 388-393

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MS Mus. 388-393
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MSS Mus. 388-393. Alan Bush Collection. Vols lxiii-lxviii. ‘Joe Hill, the Man Who Never Died’, opera in two acts to a libretto by Barrie Stavis, after his play ‘The Man Who Never Died’; [1967]. First performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin, 29 Sept. 1970, as part of the East Berlin Arts Festival of 1970. Six volumes.
Scope & Content:
Joel Emanuel Hägglund, alias 'Joe Hill'; songwriter and workers' leader: Barrie Stavis, writer of plays: 'Joe Hill', opera by A. D. Bush , to a libretto by Barrie Stavis: [1967].
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1967]
Extent:
6 items

108. MS Mus. 351

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MS Mus. 351
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MS Mus. 351. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. xxvi. Five pieces for violin, viola, ’cello, clarinet and horn, op.6; 1925-26. Dedicated to John Ireland (f. 1). ff. i + 202. 360 x 280mm. 1. ff. 1-83. Score, in ink; dated March 1925 – Jan. 1926 (f. 81). 2. ff. 84-110. Score, in ink. Copy. 3. ff. 111-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1926
Extent:
1 item

109. MS Mus. 371-372

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MS Mus. 371-372
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MSS Mus. 371, 372. Alan Bush Collection. Vols xlvi, xlvii. Vocal score; [1950], n.d. Photostats of the composer’s ink score of the piano reduction, with autograph title pages. With a letter from the composer to David and Diana Ellenberg, dated 6 Oct. 1950, explaining that the overture and passages linking scenes have not yet been composed and are therefore not included (MS Mus. 371, f. i). Purchased from Peter Moore, Esq., 5 Jan. 1999. Two volumes. 368 x 263mm.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950]
Extent:
2 items

110. MS Mus. 521

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MS Mus. 521
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Alan Bush Collection. General chronological sequence of correspondence. Jul-Sep 1967
Scope & Content:
Correspondents include: Michael Head, Hubert Du Plessis, Harry Gibson, Hans Michael Richter, Morris Kahn, E. Florence Whitlock, Carl Van Wyk, Dr Dietrich Wolf, Benjamin Britten, Kenneth Reynolds, Edward Gregson, Ignatius Temba, Lois Phillips, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1967
Extent:
1 file