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The wasps : vocal score / Vaughan Williams: MU.MS.695

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The wasps : vocal score / Vaughan Williams
The wasps of Aristophanes.
Wasps. English & Greek Vocal score.

Maker(s)

Composer: Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Binder: J.S. Wilson and Son,

Categories

Description

Incidental music for soli, men's chorus, and orchestra.
With programme for the original performances at the New Theatre Cambridge, November 26-December 1, 1909, bound before page 1.
Holograph manuscript in ink.
Compiled from a sequence of separate manuscripts, six section of which have an earlier pagination. These sections also have and English translation added in a different hand.
"R. Vaughan WIlliams, 13 Cheyne Walk, SW" written on first or last page the separate sections.
Paper: 12 staves (278x207), no maker's name.
Accession number MU 4-1960
Former shelf number: 53.E.14.
Ancient Greek words, mostly with English translation
Quarter brown morocco with cloth. Bound J.S. WIlson & Son, Cambridge.

Measurements and weight

1 ms. vocal score (156 p.) ;34 cm.

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1960-08) by Vaughan Williams, Ursula

Dating

Production date: AD 1909

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.695
Primary reference Number: 253385
ALMA control 001: 995018753803606
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Audit data

Created: Monday 12 October 2020 Updated: Tuesday 2 February 2021 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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