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MS Mus. 147
- Record Id:
- 032-001946196
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001946196
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x000234
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 147
- Title:
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Edward Elgar: ‘Polonia’, symphonic prelude for orchestra, op.76
- Scope & Content:
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Copyist’s full score in ink with autograph annotations in red ink and red crayon and further annotations, in pencil, in a third hand. f. i is a Novello hire library label. The stamp of Elkin & Co. Ltd is on f. 2. This score appears to have been copied from the autograph full score, Add MS 52528. Many of the pencil annotations in the autograph score also appear in the present score and may be in the same hand. See also Add MS 63161, ff. 33v, 34v and 35v, and 69829 i & ii (sketches), and Add MS 52528, 69829 and 69830 (full score).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Europeana Collections 1914-1918
Music Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001946196
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001946196
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (i + 145 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=MS_Mus._147 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1915
- End Date:
- 1915
- Date Range:
- [1915]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Trimmed size 453 x 308mm.
- Custodial History:
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Presented by Novello and Co. Ltd, 7 Oct. 1994.
- Publications:
- An account of the production and checking of proofs for the work is given in R. Anderson and J. Northrop Moore (eds.), Elgar Complete Edition, vol. 33 Falstaff [&] Polonia (1992), pp. xi-xii, and relevant correspondence between Elgar and Elkin is printed in J. Northrop Moore, Elgar and his Publishers (Oxford, 1987). Full score published Elkin & Co., 1915.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)