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A collection of both manuscript and printed works by Herbert Antcliffe (1875-1964) including published and unpublished material, both musical and textual, during the period 1899 to 1961 (where dated).

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A collection of both manuscript and printed musical works by Sir William Henry Hadow (1859-1937).

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A collection of manuscript musical and literary works by Stuart Kilby Kay (1886-1962), including songs and hymns.

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A collection of both manuscript and printed musical works by George Linstead (1908-1974)

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A collection of both manuscript and printed musical works by Phillip John Lord (1930-1969)

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A collection of correspondence to and from Dr. John E. Lunn of Sheffield concerning the book 'Ralph Vaughan Williams: a pictorial biography' that he wrote with Ursula Vaughan Williams, the widow of Ralph Vaughan Williams. For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.

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A collection of papers, notebooks and memorabilia relating to Eric David Mackerness (1921-1999) and members of his family.

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The collection consists of thematic catalogues of the works of largely eighteenth-century musical composers, compiled, collected and developed by Robert Dearling, along with further supporting material.

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A collection of manuscript musical works composed by John William Shaw (1927-2008). The majority of this collection is undated, but dated material ranges from 1973 to 1999.

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Records of the Sheffield Bach Society, 1950-2010. The collection consists of the records of the Sheffield Bach Society during its first half-century, from its founding in 1950 up to the year 2010.

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Scope and Contents A collection of programmes, souvenirs, etc. for concerts held mostly in Sheffield between 1896 and 1984.The collection came to the Library from an unknown source, but it may have been put together by Arthur S. Burrows, conductor and chorus master, as it contains two letters written to him and many of the programmes include his name. The collection consists of programmes, prospectuses, fliers and other material relating to the Sheffield Musical Festival, the Sheffield Musical...

Scope and Contents Manuscript works, including musical scores and lectures, with some correspondence relating to the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra, of Frank Henry Shera, Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield 1928-1948. The collection comprises scores, lectures and other writings on the history of music, together with a small collection of correspondence relating to the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra in the years 1929-33.For further details of this collection please see the finding...

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A collection of both unpublished manuscript and published printed works by Thomas Worsley Staniforth (1845-1909), from around the 1870s to 1905. Some of the documents are undated.

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Scope and Contents The music score library of Sir Thomas Beecham, including annotations, together with his extensive collection of press cuttings.The Library consists of some 3000 music scores (full orchestral scores and parts, choral music, piano music and songs) which formed Beecham's own working library. It includes many rare editions and his own works, while many of the scores bear Beecham's blue-pencil manuscript orchestral directions and editings. In addition there are some 150,000 press...