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Cantatas. Musical compositions.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A medium-length narrative or descriptive piece of music with vocal solos and normally a chorus and orchestra. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Arrangements of "A Scottish Cantata or Choral-Ballad ‘Lochinvar’" by G W Crawford, being settings of the poem by Sir Walter Scott., [?1892-?1941.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21920-21921
Dates: [?1892-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music for voices by G W Crawford. / Choral music of G W Crawford.

Choral music of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21920-21923
Dates: [?1892-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music for voices by G W Crawford.

"Franco-Scottish March, for full orchestra, arranged from 'The Scottish Tribute to France'. Cantata for chorus and orchestra, written by his Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., composed by Learmont Drysdale.", 1903.

 File
Identifier: MS.3214
Scope and Contents

Also included are three songs: 'Ireland', 'Scotland', and 'England'. The date 1903 occurs on folio 9.

Dates: 1903.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph.

Full score and vocal score of ‘Artemis’, a dramatic cantata by G W Crawford with libretto by Edward Oxenford., [?1892-?1941.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21961-21962
Scope and Contents

G W Crawford appears to have set the works of Edward Oxenford in 1919 to lightly revised music which he had originally composed in 1907 for ‘Cleopatra’ with a libretto by Gerald Cumberland (MS.21961, page 88).

Dates: [?1892-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music of G W Crawford for stage works. / Miscellaneous musical stage works of G W Crawford.

Full score and vocal score of ‘Gehazi’, a ‘dramatic sacred cantata in two acts, the words written and adapted from the Bible’ [from the Second Book of Kings] by G W Crawford., 1892.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21958-21959
Dates: 1892.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music of G W Crawford for stage works. / Miscellaneous musical stage works of G W Crawford.

Full score of ‘Artemis’ by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.21961
Dates: [?1892-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music of G W Crawford for stage works. / Miscellaneous musical stage works of G W Crawford. / Full score and vocal score of ‘Artemis’, a dramatic cantata by G W Crawford with libretto by Edward Oxenford.

Full score of ‘Gehazi’, 1892, by G W Crawford, revised, 1894., 1892, 1894.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21958
Dates: 1892, 1894.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music of G W Crawford for stage works. / Miscellaneous musical stage works of G W Crawford. / Full score and vocal score of ‘Gehazi’, a ‘dramatic sacred cantata in two acts, the words written and adapted from the Bible’ [from the Second Book of Kings] by G W Crawford.

‘Lochinvar’ by G W Crawford, a setting for chorus and orchestra., [?1892-?1941.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.21920
Dates: [?1892-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music for voices by G W Crawford. / Choral music of G W Crawford. / Arrangements of "A Scottish Cantata or Choral-Ballad ‘Lochinvar’" by G W Crawford, being settings of the poem by Sir Walter Scott.

Miscellaneous musical stage works of G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21958-21962
Dates: [?1892-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music of G W Crawford for stage works.

Music for voices by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21920-21924
Dates: [?1892-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.

Music of G W Crawford for stage works., [?1892-?1941.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21936-21967
Dates: [?1892-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.

Vocal score of ‘Artemis’ by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.21962
Dates: [?1892-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music of G W Crawford for stage works. / Miscellaneous musical stage works of G W Crawford. / Full score and vocal score of ‘Artemis’, a dramatic cantata by G W Crawford with libretto by Edward Oxenford.

Vocal score of ‘Gehazi’ by G W Crawford., 1892.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21959
Dates: 1892.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music of G W Crawford for stage works. / Miscellaneous musical stage works of G W Crawford. / Full score and vocal score of ‘Gehazi’, a ‘dramatic sacred cantata in two acts, the words written and adapted from the Bible’ [from the Second Book of Kings] by G W Crawford.

Vocal score of ‘Lochinvar’ by G W Crawford, for voice and piano accompaniment., [?1892-?1941.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.21921
Dates: [?1892-?1941.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own. / Music for voices by G W Crawford. / Choral music of G W Crawford. / Arrangements of "A Scottish Cantata or Choral-Ballad ‘Lochinvar’" by G W Crawford, being settings of the poem by Sir Walter Scott.

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