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Scores.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Original and entire drafts or transcripts of musical compositions or arrangements, typically with the parts of all the different instruments or voices written on staffs one above another, so that they can be read at a glance. Also, musical compositions recorded as a distribution of the parts (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1933).

Found in 315 Collections and/or Records:

Full score of ‘Missa Solemnis’, Opus 4, by David Stephen, for solo voices, chorus and orchestra., [?1899.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.22153
Scope and Contents

A proof copy of the title page is pasted inside the front cover (the work was published in 1899).

The text of the Mass is written in an imitation Gothic hand on the flyleaves.

In addition to the conductor’s markings in blue pencil, numerous brief corrections and additions have been written or pasted in throughout. Folio 11 is a half-sheet tipped in, and folios 38 and 85 each consist of two leaves stuck together.

Dates: [?1899.]

Full score of 'Shakespeare in Arden’, Opus 15, by Norman Fulton, a divertimento in seven movements for mixed chorus, solo voices and instruments, double string orchestra, piano and percussion., [1951.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.22149
Scope and Contents

The work was commissioned by the Hitchin Civic and Arts Association and first performed at the Hertfordshire Rural Music School, 1951, the name of which is stamped on folio 1.

Dates: [1951.]

Full score of the march 'The lads of Wamphray' by Percy Grainger, for wind band, composed 1904-1905 and slightly revised 1937., 1904-1905, 1937.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21867
Scope and Contents

Most of the music consists of portions of photostats of his original score (with some amendments in ink) pasted to the leaves of the sheets, with omitted parts and amendments supplied by Percy Grainger. A sheet containing a typed programme note and 'hints to bandmasters' dated 1938 is tipped in at the front. Other notes, both typed and manuscript, are tipped in at the back (folios ii-iv).

Dates: 1904-1905, 1937.