Home  / MS 980

MS 980

Reference code

MS 980

Title

Norman Routledge music collection

Level

Sub-fonds

Administrative / Biographical history

Routledge, Norman Arthur (1928 – 2013)

Mathematics teacher and Housemaster at Eton College from 1959 to 1989. Later in his life, he taught music for the Salvation Army community in Bermondsey, southeast London.

Date

1922-1969

Extent & medium

9 music scores

Content description

Nine printed scores music scores owned by Norman Routledge, some signed and annotated:

Delius, Frederic: Dance for Harpsicord - piano solo, Boosey & Hawkes (1922), inscribed N.a. Routledge, May 1952'

Finzi, Gerald, A Young Man's Exhortations - Ten songs for tenor and piano, words by Thomas Hardy, Oxford University Press (1933), includes Norman Routledge's Eton College bookplate

Handel, Friedrich: Ten organ arrangements Book 1, Novello (1951) signed an annotated by Norman Routledge

Phillips, C Henry: Modern organ peddling, Oxford University Press (1951), signed, includes Norman Routledge's Eton College bookplate

Britten, Benjamin: Prelude and fugue on a theme of Vittoria - for organ, Boosey & Hawkes (1952, inscribed 'Norman Routledge January 1957'

Walker, Ernest: Variations on an original theme for viola and piano, Novello (1953), includes Norman Routledge's Eton College bookplate, viola part inscribed 'N A R'

Routh, Francis: Fantasia for Organ, Hinrichsen (1957), includes Norman Routledge's Eton College bookplate

Music before service - 5 modern pieces for organ, Novello (1969), includes Norman Routledge's Eton College bookplate

Dale, B J: 'Romace' from Suite for viola and piano Op.2, Novello, n.d., annotated and inscribed 'NAR'

Back cover only of unidentified Novello printed music score

Provenance

Donated in October 2014 by Fateh Ali Khan Qizilbash OE, who bought them from Any Amount of Books, a bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London, date unknown.

Arrangement

Chronological arrangement
Further information and resources

Can't find what you are looking for?

Digital resources

Terms and conditions

     
Powered by CollectionsIndex+ Collections Online