IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1249 MS 5866, MS 6995
Held at: Royal College of Music
Title: MILNER, Anthony Francis Dominic (b 1925)
Date(s): 1951-1985
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box, 2 volumes and 1 file
Name of creator(s): Milner | Anthony Francis Dominic | b 1925 | composer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Anthony Francis Dominic Milner, born Bristol, 13 May 1925; educated at Douai School, Woolhampton, and at the Royal College of Music, where he studied piano with Herbert Fryer and composition with R O Morris, and studied privately with Matyas Seiber; joined teaching staff of Morley College, 1947; appointed London University extension lecturer, 1954; appointed Lecturer in Music at King's College London, 1965; appointed Senior Lecturer in Music at Goldsmith's College, London, 1971; taught as a professor of composition at the RCM; has often visited America as lecturer or as visiting composer at summer schools or music workshops. His work has concentrated on choral music, mostly to religious texts. For further information see Grove Dictionary of Music.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Programmes, press cuttings, articles and transcripts relating to the composer Anthony Milner, used by James Siddons in his Anthony Milner: a Bio-Bibliography (Westport, CT, 1989), comprising scrap books of reviews of Milner's music and articles by or on Milner, 1951-1960; press cuttings relating to Milner's liturgical compositions in regard to the introduction of English in the Roman Catholic liturgy, and Milner's views of the translation of the order of mass into English, 1964-1970; music programmes (with some reviews) of concerts featuring Milner's works, 1958-1985; reviews and press cuttings of Milner's work and performances, c1958-1979; brief biographical notes on Milner, and schedules and itineraries of his lecture tours of Canada and USA, 1964-1985; transcript of 'Anthony Milner on his 50th birthday', a talk on 'Music weekly', BBC Radio 3, by Hugh Wood, 11 May 1975; 'Anthony Milner - a comment on his work' typescript article by Stephen Dodgson (MS 5866). Three published articles by Milner, with covering to Sir Keith Falkner, on the problem of the vernacular in the Roman Catholic liturgy, 'Music in a vernacular Catholic liturgy' paper read to the Royal Musical Association, 4 Jan 1965; 'The instruction on sacred music', Worship vol 41 no 6 Jun-Jul 1967; 'Music and liturgy', The Month, 1965-1966 (MS 6995)
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English.
System of arrangement:
MS 5866 is organized into five files and two volumes as follows: 1) Various programmes, 1958-1985; 2) Milner and the English mass; 3) Performances, 1958-1979; 4) articles by Wood and Dodgson, biographical material and lecture schedules; 5) scrapbook, 1951-1960; 6) scrapbook, 1954-1957.
Conditions governing access:
Usual conditions of the Library of the Royal College of Music apply. See the RCM website or contact the RCM Library for details.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying is permitted at the discretion of the Archivist for research purposes only.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed list in RCM Manuscripts Catalogue, part 3.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
MS 5866 was deposited by James Siddons, 15 November 1988. MS 6995 was deposited by Sir Keith Falkner, Director of the RCM, to whom Milner had sent the articles.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
RCM holds letter from Milner, 28 Nov 1963, regarding promotion of his work for forthcoming concert (files of misc correspondence, ref: MS 6930).
British Library, Music Collections holds letters from Milner to William Gates, 1959-1982 (Ref: Add MS 64432).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Sources: National Register of Archives; article by Hugo Cole/Roderic Dunnett, Grove Dictionary of Music.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2001