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Add MS 56478
- Record Id:
- 040-002000812
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002000800
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000586.0x00007a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 56478
- Title:
- John Foulds: 'A World Requiem', for soli, chorus, orchestra and organ, op. 60
- Scope & Content:
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Text from the Bible, the Requiem Mass, the Benedicite, Kabir, John Bunyan and Maud MacCarthy. Full score and associated materials. The score and some of the associated papers have been annotated and signed 'O.P.' (i.e. Maud MacCarthy, afterwards Swami Omananda Puri, wife of John Foulds). For further correspondence relating to this work see Add MS 56482. Vocal score published W. Paxton & Co. [1923]. No. 13a, 'Song of the Blest' was published separately as a song with obligato violin accompaniment, W. Paxton & Co. (1924), see 3 below.
Contents:
1. f. i. Autograph letter from Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, President of the British Legion, to members of the London Cenotaph Choir concerning Foulds's World Requiem; 1924.
2. ff. ii-xviii. Notices, programmes, reviews, etc.; 1926, n.d. Printed.
3. ff. xix-xxvi. Song of the Blest, op. 60, no. 13a; 1924. Printed score and violin part.
4. ff. xxvii-xli, 1-11. Notes, etc., relating to the orchestra, the full score and the text, partly in the hand of Maud MacCarthy; 1929-1965, n.d. Includes (f. xli) a typewritten letter, signed, from Sir Malcolm Sargent to 'Madame Puri', i.e. Maud MacCarthy, dated 1965 and concerning Foulds's World Requiem.
5. ff. 12-228. Full score, with parts of the printed vocal score interleaved; 1921, 1923.
6. ff. 229-236. Discarded draft full score pages numbered 378-387, 389-391, 393-395; [1921].
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Europeana Collections 1914-1918 - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002000800
040-002000812 - Is part of:
- Add MS 56469-56483 : FOULDS COLLECTION. Musical compositions of John Foulds (b.1880, d.1939), together with letters and papers relating to his…
Add MS 56478 : John Foulds: 'A World Requiem', for soli, chorus, orchestra and organ, op. 60 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002000800[0010]/040-002000812
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 56469-56483
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (xli + 236 +55*, 133*, 133**, 162*, 164*, 172*, 172**, 189*, 197*, 223* folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_56478 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1920
- End Date:
- 1965
- Date Range:
- 1920-1965
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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