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Level: File / Extent: 29 items
Creator: Wray, John Reginald (fl.1930s-1990s), composer, organist, Royal Manchester College of Music acting principal
Dates: 1987
Description: Score - 1st & 2nd movements; original. With photocopy, bearing performance markings. Solo viola part - 1st movement; photocopy. Parts - 1st movement; 1 original of each with photocopies. 1st violin 6; 2nd violin 6; viola 3; cello 4; double bass 2; flute (1st & 2nd ); oboe (1st & 2nd ); clarinet (1st & 2nd ); bassoon (1st & 2nd ); horn (1st & 2nd ). Timpani part missing.
Level: File / Extent: 16 items
Creator: Helliwell, John Clifton (1907-fl.1990s), pianist, teacher
Dates: 1932
Description: Score and parts; autograph MS. Horn, harp, and triangle/cymbal parts missing. Masquerade in Moonlight: a play.
Three pieces (Burlesca, Sarabande, Capriccio) transcribed for orchestra by Clifton Helliwell
RNCM /
Manuscripts of music /
MS/3
Level: File / Extent: 16 items
Creator: Helliwell, John Clifton (1907-fl.1990s), pianist, teacher
Dates: 1933
Description: Score and parts; autograph MS.
Level: File / Extent: 2 items
Creator: Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert (1862-1934), Composer
Dates: [1914]
Description: Two copies of the score, one entitled "Original manuscript 1st sonata for violin & piano Delius property of RJ Forbes 19 Ladybarn Road Fallowfield Manchester 14". With envelope from Boosey & Hawkes Ltd. The hand has not been verified as Delius'. First performance by Arthur Catterall, and R.J. Forbes, Manchester, Houldsworth Hall, 24 Feb 1915
Level: File / Extent: 155 pp.
Creator: Lloyd, George Walter Selwyn (1913-1998), composer
Dates: 1968
Description: Score only; autographed.
Level: File / Extent: 2 items
Creator: Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert (1862-1934), Composer
Dates: undated
Description: Score and violin part. ?Barbirolli? "For Norah"
Level: File / Extent: 2 items
Creator: Anonymous - unknown creator
Dates: undated
Description: Manuscript
Level: File / Extent: 1 f.
Creator: Anonymous - unknown creator
Dates: undated
Description: Manuscript
Level: File / Extent: 1 volume, 154 ff.
Creator: Lowe, William (fl.18th century)
Dates: 1747
Description: A book of psalmody containing variety of tunes... 6th edn corrected by the Rev. Mr John Chetham, published Wakefield: Joseph Lord 1741. In addition to this printed work containing t.p, x, 180 pp., table of contents, ff.1-13 and ff.144v-154 (reversed) contain music in MS. MS music includes chants for: Nunc dimittis; psalm tunes, some by W. Cowper and J. Green; Te Deum; Jubilate Deo; and anthems, some by Mr Handley, Dr Turner, Jeremiah Clarke, George Holtham and Dr William Croft.
Level: File / Extent: 2 items
Creator: Gallignani, Giuseppe (1851-1923), composer, conductor, teacher
Dates: c.1890
Description: Words by M. Marcello and by E.Meine (in Italian).
Level: File / Extent: 2 items
Creator: Hall, Richard (1903-1982), composer, Royal Manchester College of Music teacher
Dates: 1944
Description: Autograph MS.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888), poet and critic; Hecht, Edward (1832-1887), Chorus master and pianist
Dates: c.1880
Description: Autograph MS. Words by Matthew Arnold, song composed and dedicated to Mr Santley. Signed "To my dear friend George Broadfield".
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Heller, Stephen (1813-1888), pianist, composer, tutor
Dates: [1878]
Description: Holograph, edited by Charles Halle. On t.p. "Paris J.Maho and Leipzig, Breitkopf & Hartel. La Dedicace va suivre plus tard."
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Heller, Stephen (1813-1888), pianist, composer, tutor
Dates: [1879]
Description: Holograph. Quoted on t.p. "Paris T.Maho, J Hamelle Succs." and "Leipzig F. Kistner" "London Forsyth Brothers".
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Heller, Stephen (1813-1888), pianist, composer, tutor
Dates: [1844]
Description: Holograph. Title is usually "Caprice brillant". MS contains many remarks in German, English and French.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Heller, Stephen (1813-1888), pianist, composer, tutor
Dates: [1879]
Description: Holograph; edited by Charles Hallé. On t.p. "Paris, J Hamelle" "Leipzig F. Kistner" with stamp of Forsyth Bros London.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Heller, Stephen (1813-1888), pianist, composer, tutor
Dates: [1875]
Description: Holograph. On title page "Pour l'Angleterre", and "Paris J. Maho" "Leipzig, Breitkopf & Hartel".
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Heller, Stephen (1813-1888), pianist, composer, tutor
Dates: [1846]
Description: Holograph. Edited by Charles Hallé. Contents: Heidenrøslein Wanderer's Naditlied Nähe der Geliebten Der Wanderer Halt Der Schmetterling Zurguten Nacht Wasserfluth Aun See Inrlicht Am Meer Der Leyermann [sic] Romanze des Toggenburg [sic] Abendstern Der Geistertanz
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Heller, Stephen (1813-1888), pianist, composer, tutor
Dates: [1874]
Description: Holograph. On t.p. "Pour l'Angleterre", "Messier Forsyth Brothers Cross Street, South King Street, Manchester" and "Paris, J. Maho" "Leipzig, Breitkopf & Hartel".
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Heller, Stephen (1813-1888), pianist, composer, tutor
Dates: [1845]
Description: Holograph. On t.p. "Paris M. Schlesinger, Berlin A.M. Schlesinger, London R. Wessel et Comp."
Level: File / Extent: 3 items
Creator: Heller, Stephen (1813-1888), pianist, composer, tutor
Dates: 3 May 1842
Description: Holograph. Dedicated to Charles Halle. Parts.
Level: File / Extent: 3 items
Creator: Heller, Stephen (1813-1888), pianist, composer, tutor
Dates: undated
Description: Autograph. Incomplete movement for piano with complete movement marked "Il Allegretto quasi Allegro". Also 13.5 bars for piano (unidentified). Also exercises for piano in three sections.
Level: File / Extent: 5 items
Creator: Holbrooke, Joseph Charles (1878-1958), composer, pianist, conductor
Dates: 1906
Description: Published 2nd edn. London: Rudall, Carte, 1906. Alternative parts for clarinet and cello in MS, with additional parts to piano part also in MS.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Dayas, William Humphreys (1863-1903), Professor of Pianoforte, RMCM
Dates: undated
Description: Transcribed from or in the style of Bach. Autograph.
Level: File / Extent: 1 items
Creator: Isaacs, Edward (1881-1953), Pianist, Composer; Angelis, Hilda De (fl.1900s-1910s), singer
Dates: undated
Description: Song for tenor and piano; words by Hilda de Angelis.
Level: File / Extent: 2 items
Creator: Lichtenstein, Georg (1827-1893), pianist, music teacher
Dates: undated
Description: Autograph? For violin and piano - parts.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Pitfield, Alice Maud (1903-2000), Craftswoman; Pitfield, Thomas Baron (1903-1999), Composer, artist
Dates: 1940s
Description: Autograph. Song for soprano and piano: English translation by Alice M. Pitfield of a Pushkin poem.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Teschemacher, Edward (1876-1940), composer, librettist, arranger; Thamsen, Nicolai (dates unknown)
Dates: undated
Description: Song for soprano and piano; words by Edward Teschemacher.
Level: File / Extent: 5 items
Creator: Walker, Ernest (1870-1949), composer, pianist, teacher
Dates: 1923
Description: Score published New York: J Fischer 1923, with parts in MS (autograph?)
Level: File / Extent: 3 items
Creator: Weissenborn, Christian Julius (1837-1888), bassoonist, composer, teacher
Dates: undated
Description: Parts - copied by ?Frank Rendell.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Mercer, John Edward (1857-1922), Bishop of Tasmania
Dates: undated
Description: Full score
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787) , composer
Dates: c.1770
Description: Full score, copied from original source by an Italian scribe. Includes Gluck's own synopsis and production directions (in Italian).
Level: File / Extent: 3 volumes
Creator: Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von (1786-1826), Composer, conductor, pianist and critic
Dates: c.1830
Description: Full score.
Level: File / Extent: 45 items
Creator: Isaacs, Edward (1881-1953), Pianist, Composer
Dates: 1907
Description: Full score, and full set of orchestral parts. No piano part.
Level: File / Extent:
Creator: Anonymous - unknown creator
Dates: undated
Level: File / Extent: 1 item, 2 ff.
Creator: Hallé, Charles (1819-1895), Knight; pianist, conductor, founder of Royal Manchester College of Music
Dates: c.1880
Description: Song for soprano and piano, in the hand of Charles Hallé. Music by Schubert.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert (1862-1934), Composer
Dates: late 19th century
Description: Piano score and violin part.
Level: File / Extent: 18 items
Creator: Mayer, Max (fl.1910s-1931), pianist, composer, teacher
Dates: c.1910
Description: Impressions in 3 parts: Funerailles; In a moon-lit garden; Pavlova. Unfinished? With sketches and other works including Sicilienne, 3 pieces for pianoforte (Shepherds on the hill-side; moonlight; the village-green), Melisande, Wer nie sein Brod in Thranen ass, Scherzo, 8 studies for the left hand, and an orchestral score of an unknown work.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Mann, Johann Gottfried Hendrik (1858-1904), composer, conductor, pianist
Dates: c.1890
Description: Orchestral score. With label "Muziekhandel Johs. J. Eggers, Firma Schreduer & Van Baak, Botermarkt No.14, Leiden"
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Sinding, Christian August (1856-1941), Composer
Dates: c.1890
Description: Autograph MS (not verified).
Level: File / Extent: 3 items
Creator: Hallé, Charles (1819-1895), Knight; pianist, conductor, founder of Royal Manchester College of Music
Dates: c.1880
Description: From "Neruda Book 2". In the hand of Charles Hallé. Possibly Olga Neruda.
Level: File / Extent: 26 items
Creator: Strawley, Bertram (fl.1920s-1930s), composer, musical director
Dates: c.1930
Description: Quartet version, and orchestral version. Parts only. With pianoforte part. Stamped "Bertram Srawley [sic], musical director, Liverpool".
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Anderson, Avril (1953-present), composer, music educator
Dates: 1979-1981
Description: With MS letter to Gillian Weir dated 1981 from the composer.
Level: File / Extent: 13 items
Creator: Remsen, Alice (fl.1930s-1950s), singer, composer
Dates: 1956
Description: Letter to Barbara Lane from Alice Remsen, and Wee Peggy Malone (a five-part playlet), script and songs.
Level: File / Extent: 3 items
Creator: Bryan, Gordon (fl.1950s)
Dates: 1950
Description: Parts, for flute, oboe and piano. Dedicated to the Zephyr Trio: Frances Morris, Evelyn Rothwell, Wilfrid Parry. Autograph MS.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Bedford, Hubert (fl.1930s), composer; Barrie, Hugh G. (fl.1920s), mountain climber, poet
Dates: c.1930
Description: Song with words by Hugh G. Barrie. HGB died with his companion Tom Baird in the Cairngorms in 1928, in a way very similar to that described in this poem written a year before his death. Hubert Bedford was inspired to write the music following newspaper accounts of this event, and presented the MS to the Barrie family. With a note concerning this and two other items donated to the RNCM by James Sellars.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Bush, Geoffrey (1920-1998), composer, organist, music scholar
Dates: 1952
Description: Autograph (not verified) MS score.
Level: File / Extent: 2 items
Creator: Fielden, J.P. (dates unknown)
Dates: undated
Description: Parts.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Anonymous - unknown creator
Dates: late 19th cent.
Description: Piano score. On Russian printed music paper. Composer and work not yet identified.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Anonymous - unknown creator
Dates: late 19th cent.
Description: Piano score. Composer and work unidentified. Pages 35-51 only (movt.s 1 & 2 missing?)
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Busoni, Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto (1866-1924), Composer, Pianist
Dates: late 19th cent.
Description: Violin part. With cover of piano part?
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Glamey, John (fl.1900s)
Dates: 1908
Description: Full score, copied (signed) by John Glamey (?), 36 Camp Street, Broughton, Manchester, Dec 3rd 1908.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: James, Ifor (1931-2004), horn player, teacher
Dates: c.1940
Description: Score. A juvenile work? (possibly from material of Ena Mitchell collection - Ifor James is EM's son).
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Worsley, Alfred (fl.1910s-fl.1920s), composer
Dates: c.1930
Description: Autograph ms.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Jones, Charles Lewis (fl.1890s)
Dates: March 1894
Description: Full score. By Charles Lewis Jones ARCO.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Hughes, Herbert (1882-1937), composer, music critic
Dates: undated
Description: Song for voice and piano. Signed Dorothy Silk on cover.
Level: File / Extent: 9 items
Creator: Silk, Dorothy (1883-1942), singer
Dates: 1920
Description: Copied by Dorothy Silk. Score and parts - violin I (2), violin II, viola I (2), viola II (2), cello. Ein kleines Kindelein An Wasserflussen Babylon Wachet auf!
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Roberton, Hugh Stevenson (1874-1952), Knight, composer, choral master
Dates: undated
Description: Song for voice & piano. Signed James Sellars (donor of MS/46).
Level: File / Extent: 1 item, 29 pp.
Creator: Rosenbloom, Sydney (1889-1967), composer
Dates: undated
Level: File / Extent: 50 pp.
Creator: Procter-Gregg, Humphrey (1895-1980), composer, organist, teacher
Dates: c.1950
Description: Translation of original libretto by H.Meilhac & L.Halevy from the novel of Prosper Merimee. Possibly produced for the Royal Manchester College of Music Opera department?
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Walker, Ernest (1870-1949), composer, pianist, teacher; Dobell, Sydney Thompson (1824-1874), poet
Dates: 1925
Description: Autograph MS. Words by Sydney Dobell: Summer Rain; Sleep Song. "For Miss Dorothy Silk (first performance: Oxford May 3rd 1926) With Kindest Regards". Arrangement for voice and piano.
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Anonymous - unknown creator
Dates: undated
Description: Score. 2nd movt. of symphony no.2 in E minor [?].
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Anonymous - unknown creator
Dates: undated
Description: Unfinished score, for brass band. Composer unknown
Level: File / Extent: 1 item
Creator: Vaughan Williams, Joan Ursula Penton (1911-2007), poet, author; Hughes, Brian (fl.1980s-present), composer, conductor, teacher
Dates: undated
Description: MS Vocal Score by Brian Hughes and Usula V. Williams
Level: File / Extent: 1 volume
Creator: Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924), composer, teacher, conductor
Dates: [1902]
Description: Manuscript score of piano reduction, copied by Oscar William Street. With note about Street, and photograph of Charles Stanford.
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