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040-001966166

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032-001966038

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HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. cvi. Searle’s draft scripts for radio talks, etc.; 1949-1962, n.d. Typewritten unless otherwise stated.

ff. 213. Overall size 330 x 210mm.

1. ff. 1-4. ‘An Approach to Atonal Music’; n.d.

2. ff. 5-6. ‘A New Musical Language’; n.d.

3. ff. 7-11. ‘A New Kind of Music?’; n.d.

4. ff. 12-23. ‘A Lesson for the Third Programme?’; n.d.

5. ff. 24-31. ‘Modern Music: the Problem of Performance’; n.d.

6. ff. 32-36. ‘Is the symphony viable today?’.

7. ff. 37-40. ‘What does Music Express?’; [1972].

8. ff. 41-47. ‘Opera and Ballet in Britain’; n.d. Ink.

9. ff. 48-54. ‘Twelve-Note Music’; n.d.

10. ff. 55-85. ‘Twentieth Century Music Series’; n.d. Scripts for an introduction and six programmes.

11. ff. 86-92. Interval talk, ‘The Palermo Festival’; 1949.

12. ff. 93-98. ‘The Milan 12-note Congress’; 1949. Ink.

13. ff. 99-102. ‘The Composer Sp[e]aks’; n.d. Incomplete.

14. ff. 103-107. ‘Wozzeck’; n.d.

15. ff. 108-109. ‘Berlioz’; n.d.

16. ff. 110-115. ‘Benvenuto Cellini’; n.d.

17. f. 116. ‘Busoni - Von der Einheit der Musik’; 1951. A review of an English translation of Busoni’s text.

18. f. 117. ‘Frederick Delius’; n.d. A review of the reprint of a monograph by Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock).

19. ff. 118-128. ‘Janácek - The House of the Dead’; 1957.

20. ff. 129-135. ‘Mahler, Schoenberg, Britten’; n.d. A review of Orpheus in New Guises by Erwin Stein.

21. ff. 136-142. ‘Arnold Schoenberg. (1874-1951)’; [1952].

22. ff. 143-145. ‘An Approach to Schoenberg’; [1952].

23. ff. 146-149. ‘Schoenberg’s Piano Works’; n.d.

24. ff. 150-153. ‘Schoenberg’s String Quartets’; 1962.

25. ff. 154-155. ‘Schoenberg - Prophet and Genius’ [1952].

26. f. 156. ‘Fartein Valen’; n.d.

27. ff. 157-162. ‘Wagner and the Contemporary Ethos’; 1953. Ink.

28. ff. 163-166. ‘The Legacy of Webern’; n.d.

29. ff. 167-200. Memoir of Constant Lambert; 1954. Ink.

30. ff. 201-207. ‘Memories of Alan Rawsthorne’; n.d. Two copies, one ink, one typewritten.

31. f. 208.’Additional paragraph for Translator’s Preface’; [1953?]. Intended for Searle’s translation of Josef Rufer, Die Komposition mit zwölf Tönen, published as Composition with twelve notes related only to one another (Rocklif, [1954]).

32. ff. 209-213. Richard Gorer: ‘The opera of the absurd’; n.d.

includes:

ff. 103-107 Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer: Scripts by Humphrey Searle about Alban Berg: n.d.: Typewritten.
ff. 108-115 Louis Hector Berlioz, composer: Scripts by Humphrey Searle on the music of: n.d.: Typewritten.
f. 116 Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni, composer and pianist: Review by Humphrey Searle of a translation of Busoni's Von der Einheit der Musik: 1951: Typewritten.
f. 117 Philip Arnold Heseltine, alias 'Peter Warlock'; composer: Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, composer: Review by Humphrey Searle of a book by Philip Arnold Heseltine, about Delius: n.d.: Typewritten.
f. 118 Leoš Janácek, composer: Script by Humphrey Searle about 'The House of the Dead': 1957: Typewritten.
f. 129 Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, composer: Gustav Mahler, composer: Erwin Stein, writer on music and editor: Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten; composer: Humphrey Searle's review of Orpheus in New Guises by Erwin Stein: n.d.: Typewritten.
ff. 136-155 Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, composer: Writings by Humphrey Searle about Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg: 1952-1962, n.d.: Typewritten.
f. 156 Olav Fartein Valen, composer: Writings about by Humphrey Searle: n.d.: Typewritten.
f. 157 Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer: 'Wagner and the Contemporary Ethos' by Humphrey Searle: 1953: Ink.
ff. 163-166 Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, composer: Scripts by Humphrey Searle: n.d.: Typewritten.
f. 167 Leonard Constant Lambert, composer and conductor: 'Memoir of Constant Lambert' by Humphrey Searle: 1954: Ink.
ff. 201-207 Alan Rawsthorne, composer: Scripts by Humphrey Searle about Alan Rawsthorne: 1955, n.d.: Partly ink, partly typewritten.
f. 209 Richard Gorer, composer and writer: 'The Opera of the Absurd': n.d.: Typewritten.

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Add MS 71721-71862 : HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Music manuscripts and papers by and relating to Humphrey Searle, CBE (1915-1982), composer,…
Add MS 71824-71843 : PAPERS.
Add MS 71826-71831 : O. Scripts for Searle’s own radio broadcasts.

Add MS 71826 : HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. cvi. Searle’s draft scripts for radio talks, etc.; 1949-1962, n.d. Typewritten unless…

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English

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Latin

Start Date:

1949

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1972

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1949-1972

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Names:

Berg, Alban Maria Johannes, composer, 1885-1935
Berlioz, Louis Hector, composer, 1803-1869
Britten, Edward Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, composer, 1913-1976,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121181099
Busoni, Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto, composer and pianist, 1866-1924
Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert, composer, 1862-1934,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000008382294X
Gorer, Richard, composer, horticulturalist and writer, 1913-1994
Heseltine, Philip Arnold, alias 'Peter Warlock', composer, 1894-1930,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109127321
Janáček, Leoš, composer, 1854-1928
Lambert, Leonard Constant, composer and conductor, 1905-1951
Mahler, Gustav, composer, 1860-1911
Rawsthorne, Alan, composer, 1905-1971
Schoenberg, Arnold Franz Walter, composer, 1874-1951
Stein, Erwin, writer on music and editor, 1885-1958,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000011747864X
Valen, Olav Fartein, composer
Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, composer, 1813-1883,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122779084
Webern, Anton Friedrich Wilhelm, composer, 1883-1945