Official records of the the Royal Manchester College of Music covering its entire history from foundation to amalgamation with the Northern School of Music to form the Royal Northern College of Music. Includes correspondence and minutes of the me...
Royal Manchester College of Music (1893-1973), music conservatoire
This collection consists of the institutional archive of the Royal Northern College of Music from its formation in 1973 to the present. It is not complete, some sections of the catalogue are rather thin but some sections are fairly comprehensive s...
Royal Northern College of Music (1972-present), music conservatoire
Chiefly the surviving music owned and copied by the Shaw Club or Shaw Musical Society. With very few programmes and tickets, and two catalogues of works in their library.
Sheila Barlow (1908-1993), M.B.E. The collection mainly focusses on her work as a teacher at the Royal Manchester College of Music, working with opera students on elocution and gesture. The collection contains many of her teaching resources and no...
Scores, letters and other papers mainly from Thomas Pitfield to Canon Ridgway. In the main the papers relate to Thomas Pitfield's morality play, 'Adam and the Creatures', which was published in 1968. It appears that Maurice Ridgwa...
Pitfield, Thomas Baron (1903-1999), Composer, artist
Additional scores and some correspondence which relate to the larger extant collection, TP. Duplication or similar descriptions between the two catalogues has been cross-referenced.
Pitfield, Thomas Baron (1903-1999), Composer, artist