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1. Add MS 69827-69840

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Add MS 69827-69840
Title:
Edward Elgar: Music manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Autograph scores, written in ink unless otherwise stated.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1905 -1917
Extent:
14 volumes

2. Add MS 69829-69830

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Polonia', symphonic prelude, op. 76
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
2 volumes

3. Add MS 69832-69834

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Title:
Edward Elgar: Incidental music for 'Starlight Express' (play, Violet Pearn, after A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood), op. 78
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

3 volumes

4. Add MS 69835-69836

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Fringes of the fleet', for four baritones and orchestra (words, Rudyard Kipling)
Scope & Content:
First performance London Coliseum, 11 June 1917.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
2 volumes

5. Add MS 69828

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Title:
Edward Elgar: Sketches, etc., for 'Carillon' and 'Le drapeau belge'
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-21. 'Carillon', recitation with orchestra (poem, Émile Cammaerts), op. 75; [1914]. Published in piano reduction in King Albert's Book (London: Daily Telegraph, 1914). For autograph full score see Add. 58039. Comprising: (a) Printed copy of the poem mounted on to a leaf, annotated by the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1914-1916
Extent:
1 volume (22 folios)

6. Add MS 69837-69840

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'The Sanguine Fan', ballet (scenario, Ina Lowther, based on the illustration on a fan by Charles Conder), op. 81
Scope & Content:
First performed Chelsea Palace, 20 March 1917.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
4 volumes

7. Add MS 69831

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Une voix dans le désert', for voice and orchestra (words, Émile Cammaerts), op. 77
Scope & Content:
First World War composition. Vocal score published London: Elkin, 1916. Additional wind parts, 'for theatre performances ad. lib.' (f. 1), in full score. MS Facs. 1044/1, 2 is a copy of this score and of an autograph score for voice and strings. For autograph piano score see Add. 52529.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
[1915]
Extent:
1 volume (5 folios)

8. Add MS 69827

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Add MS 69827
Title:
Edward Elgar: Choral works, 1905-1914
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-11. 'An evening scene', part song for SATB (words, Coventry Patmore), with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only; 1905. Ink, with annotations in pencil which include the composer's instructions to the printer, and with the printer's markings added. With a printed copy of the words (f. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1914
Extent:
1 volume (50 folios)

9. Add MS 69832 D

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Starlight Express'. Notes, mostly autograph, relating to the musical setting, and giving page numbers in the typewritten libretto
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume (6 folios)

10. Add MS 69832 A-C

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Add MS 69832 A-C
Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Starlight Express'. Typewritten libretto
Scope & Content:
With manuscript annotations, including Elgar's notes on musical setting.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
3 items