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Beryl Price Archive
Catalogue reference: BPA
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This record is about the Beryl Price Archive dating from 1928-1993.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BPA
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Title (The name of the record)
- Beryl Price Archive
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1928-1993
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Description (What the record is about)
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Manuscript music (mostly unpublished works)
Published music
Folder of contracts for publishers
Folder of programmes, radio broadcastsThe archive consists of many compositions, mainly part-songs and teaching pieces published by Stainer and Bell, Curwen, OUP and Robertson. There are various choral pieces and arrangements which were not published.
This collection is awaiting detailed cataloguing, please contact archives@hud.ac.uk for further information.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Heritage Quay - University of Huddersfield Archives
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Price; Beryl
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 boxes (0.6lm)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Donated to Heritage Quay by Price's nephew Anthony Harding
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Beryl Price was born 7 March 1912, died 21 February 2004. She went to the Royal Academy of Music in 1929 from Blackheath Conservatoire and studied piano with Charles Reddie, who had also taught at Blackheath. After his death, she studied music with Leslie England, harmony and composition with Harry Farjeon, conducting with Ernest Read and became sub-professor. She won the Cuthbert Nunn Prize for composition.
She gained a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM diploma) in piano and was awarded an Associate of the Royal College of Music (ARCM diploma) in Composition. She was also awarded the Rochester Prize in celebration of 850 years of Rochester Cathedral.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/0cdba010-3941-4b9f-bbe4-7651e0e16005/
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Beryl Price Archive