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Add MS 59537
- Record Id:
- 032-001997938
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001997938
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x000200
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 59537
- Title:
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Music for the film Scott of the Antarctic (1948), produced by Michael Balcon, directed by Charles Frend and conducted by Ernest Irving
- Scope & Content:
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An Ealing Studios production. The first public showing of the film was at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, 30 Dec. 1948.
Autograph full score, including the alternative march written during recording and some scenes which were not used in the film. Ink with pencil and crayon markings. Imperfect, wanting a leaf from the prologue (pages 9, 10 in the red crayon numbering).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001997938
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001997938
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- i + 98 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1948
- End Date:
- 1948
- Date Range:
- [1948]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 365 x 270mm.
- Custodial History:
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Presented by J. D. Mathieson Esq., Music Director of Ealing Studios (see f. i), 17 Nov. 1975.
- Publications:
- See Michael Kennedy A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams (2nd ed. 1996). For further bibliography, see Add MS 57265-57295
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Mathieson, J D, Music Director of Ealing Studios
Williams, Ralph, composer, 1872-1958,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108591472,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89801735 - Subjects:
- Film music
- Related Material:
- Related manuscripts are Add. 50431 (sketches) and Add. 52289 (draft full score and piano score). Manuscripts of the 'Sinfonia Antartica', which was based on the present work, are Add. 50375, 50482 B, ff. 4-4v (sketches, drafts and short score) and Add. 71176 (full score).