Suites. Musical compositions.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A set of instrumental compositions to be played in succession; also, a set of pieces from an opera or musical arranged as one instrumental work. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Chamber music, undated, of Ronald Center., Mid 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22179-22185
Dance suite consisting of five pieces from 'Pan', arranged for piano., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21988
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
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Music, undated, from 'Pan', a fairy idyll.
‘Danse des Columbines’, being number 4 of the dance suite from ‘Pan’, arranged for piano duet., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21989
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
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Music, undated, from 'Pan', a fairy idyll.
Drafts, sketches and fragments of identified works by Ronald Center., Mid 20th century-[?1971], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22187-22190
Dates:
Mid 20th century-[?1971], undated.
Drafts, sketches and fragments of musical compositions of Ronald Center., 1951-1973, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22187-22193
Full score, 1925, of 'Burns' suite for small orchestra; and parts, undated, for viola, bass, harp and keyboard of W B Moonie's concert overture '1745', opus 14., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21985
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
Full score of 'Cromer' suite for orchestra., 1916-1917, 1922, 1936.
File
Identifier: MS.21986
Scope and Contents
According to a note at folio i the greater part of the work was sketched in 1916-1917 when W B Moonie was billeted in Cromer, to which town the work is dedicated. It was completed in 1922 (folio 57).
A photogravure of an unidentified interior is pasted inside the front cover and a press-cutting, 1936, showing the ruins of Inchmahome Priory is pasted inside the back cover.
Dates:
1916-1917, 1922, 1936.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
Full score of Suite Number 1 in A minor by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21904
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Orchestral music of G W Crawford.
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Miscellaneous orchestral music of G W Crawford.
Full score of suite of four dances from ‘Pan’, opus 18, for orchestra., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21990
Scope and Contents
Notes on the instruments used are written on sheets pasted to folios 1 verso and 13 verso.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
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Music, undated, from 'Pan', a fairy idyll.
Full score of the suite ‘In varying moods’ by G W Crawford, with piano reduction at the foot of each leaf., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21906
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Orchestral music of G W Crawford.
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Miscellaneous orchestral music of G W Crawford.
Full score, undated, of 'Canzonetta' for string orchestra, being a rescoring of the second movement of the 'Cromer' suite., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21987
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
Full score, undated, of suite ‘Four Highland airs’, for orchestra; apparently an early work., ?1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21991
Dates:
?1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
'Hebridean suite' by John Davidson., [?1871-?1926.]
Item
Identifier: MS.22062
Dates:
[?1871-?1926.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
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Musical compositions and other papers, chiefly undated, of John Davidson.
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Music of John Davidson for piano.
Music of John Davidson for piano., [?1871-?1926.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22058-22069
Dates:
[?1871-?1926.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
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Musical compositions and other papers, chiefly undated, of John Davidson.
Music, undated, from 'Pan', a fairy idyll., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21988-21990
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center., Mid 20th century-[?1973], undated
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22193
Dates:
Mid 20th century-[?1973], undated
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Dates:
Mid 20th century-1988, undated.
Opening sections apparently of the first and third movements of a suite for piano and quantities of miscellaneous unidentified music of Ian Whyte., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.22092
Parts for piano (conductor) and full score of numbers 2-4 of an arrangement for the BBC Octet of the orchestral suite, undated, 'Land of the heather’., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21995
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
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Autograph and fair copies of scores and parts, and correspondence, of William B Moonie.
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Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie.
Piano suite 'Antediluvia', undated, by Maude Beswick., Mid 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21639
Score of 'Nouridden and the beautiful Persian', 'Suite No.1' by John Davidson., [?1871-?1926.]
Item
Identifier: MS.22061
Scope and Contents
Made-up volume comprising a gathering of leaves stitched together inside a folded sheet of brown paper.
Dates:
[?1871-?1926.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
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Musical compositions and other papers, chiefly undated, of John Davidson.
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Music of John Davidson for piano.
Scores and orchestral parts of works composed or arranged by W B Moonie., 1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21985-22012
Scope and Contents
Some of the scores are incomplete.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21983-22014
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 20th century, undated.
‘Suite for solo violoncello’ by Ronald Center., Mid 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.22185
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
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Musical compositions of Ronald Center.
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Final versions of musical compositions of Ronald Center.
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Chamber music, undated, of Ronald Center.