University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives Ref: MS 427 Title: Shaw Manuscripts Scope: A collection of manuscript musical works composed by John W. Shaw (1927-2008) Dates: Mostly undated, but those with dates 1973-1999 Level: Fonds Extent: 3 boxes Name of creator: John W. Shaw Administrative / biographical history: The collection consists of manuscript musical works composed by John W. Shaw. John Shaw was born on New Year’s Day 1927, the youngest of four children. In his early teens, he was evacuated from a threatened area of Sheffield to Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire. He joined the Royal Engineers (British Forces Post Office section), serving in India and Singapore. On his return from National Service, he married Stella Frost in 1953, and settled in Grenoside, Sheffield. He worked for the Sheffield Telegraph and other local offices before training as a music teacher, being awarded a Certificate in Education with a Distinction in Music from the University of Sheffield’s Institute of Education in 1964. John Shaw then taught in a number of Sheffield comprehensive schools. With a lifelong interest in music, John Shaw played the piano and violin, and sang with the Firshill Singers, the Bach Society, the Sheffield Oratorio and the Grenoside Male Voice Choir, and was organist and choirmaster at Christ Church Wadsley Bridge and St. Mark’s Church Grenoside. He was an inspiration to all he taught, conducted and played with. Many of his compositions are dedicated to and inspired by family and friends and the events in their lives, and most have only been performed within close family and social settings. There are private recordings of some of the string quartets he composed which are kept by his family. As well as music, John Shaw was a keen and prolific artist, but never sought to sell any of his paintings. Throughout his career, he supported many international charities, including a local charity for sensory impaired children. John Shaw died in 2008. Related collections: Shera Manuscripts; Staniforth Manuscripts; Linstead Manuscripts; Hadow Manuscripts; Lord Manuscripts Source: Donated by Jenny Melbourne in 2012 System of arrangement: As received Subjects: Music Names: Shaw, John William Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment Restrictions: None Copyright: Estate of the author Finding aids: Listed MS 427 John W. Shaw Manuscripts Listing 427/1 Instrumental compositions 427/1/1 2 Pieces for Flute and Piano 427/1/2 Birthday Tune for Karen (Piano) 427/1/3 Dieu! Qu’il la fait (Piano) 427/1/4 Diversion (2 flutes and piano) 427/1/5 Duetto (Violin) 427/1/6 Elegy for Philippa (Cello) 427/1/7 Fanfare and Processional (Organ) 427/1/8 Gloucester Wassail, The (Piano) 427/1/9 Greno Woods, incomplete (Piano, violin, clarinet) 427/1/10 Huntsman, The (Violin and piano) 427/1/11 Idyll (Piano and clarinet) 427/1/12 Im Märzen der Bauer (Piano) 427/1/13 Interlude (Organ) 427/1/14 Kuckuck, kuckuck (Piano) 427/1/15 Little Organ Prelude (Organ) 427/1/16 Mr. Isaac’s Maggot (2 recorders, bass viol) 427/1/17 Pastorale for Organ 427/1/18 Pieces for Flute, Clarinet and Piano 427/1/19 Prelude to Summer (Piano) 427/1/20 Reverie (Violin and piano) 427/1/21 Rustic Recorder (Recorder and guitar) 427/1/22 Trio for the Gilmorton Frosts (violin, viola, cello, virginals) 427/1/23 Waltz (Cello) 427/2 Compositions for Male Voice 427/2/1 All Night, All Day 427/2/2 Dance to Your Daddy 427/2/3 Gloucester Wassail (With piano) 427/2/4 Go, Lovely Rose 427/2/5 Guter Mond (Piano sketch) 427/2/6 Happy the Man 427/2/7 I Believe (Piano sketch) 427/2/8 Impossible Dream 427/2/9 Jenny Kissed Me 427/2/10 King’s Men, The 427/2/11 Knick Knack Paddywack 427/2/12 Light Shining 427/2/13 Magic Carpet, The (Piano sketch) 427/2/14 Mary had a Baby 427/2/15 Me and My Shadow 427/2/16 Moonlit Apples 427/2/17 My Silver Trumpet 427/2/18 Over the Rolling Sea (Piano sketch) 427/2/19 Perhaps Love 427/2/20 Referee’s Guide, The 427/2/21 Shenandoah (Piano sketch) 427/2/22 Silver 427/2/23 Slow Train, The 427/2/24 Tom Bowling 427/2/25 Twilight Shadows 427/2/26 Watching the Wheat (Piano only) 427/3 Compositions for Mixed Voice and Solo All SATB unless otherwise noted 427/3/1 4-part Invention 427/3/2 Alleluia, Laus et Gloriae 427/3/3 Blackbird 427/3/4 Bye Bye Blues 427/3/5 Cherry Ripe 427/3/6 Crucifixus 427/3/7 Dance Boatmen Dance 427/3/8 Dawn Shall Over Lethe Break 427/3/9 Fain Would I Change (Solo and piano) 427/3/10 Faithful Swallow (Solo and piano) 427/3/11 First or Last 427/2/12 Full Fathom Live 427/3/13 Gathering Peascods 427/3/14 Go Lovely Rose 427/3/15 God, Whose Farm 427/3/16 Grace 427/3/17 Grace II 427/3/18 Happy the Man 427/3/19 Have You Seen 427/3/20 Hymn to Diana 427/3/21 Jenny Kissed Me 427/3/22 Jesu Dulcis Memoria 427/3/23 Kyrie Eleison 427/3/24 Lone Walker, The 427/3/25 Market Girl, The 427/3/26 Mismet 427/3/27 My Own Country 427/3/28 Night, The 427/3/29 Original Love Story 427/3/30 Pasture, The (Solo and piano) 427/3/31 Righteous Joseph 427/3/32 Round in 4 427/3/33 To Daffodils (Solo and piano) 427/3/34 Trampin’ 427/3/35 Tyrolean Cradle Song 427/4 John and George Shaw’s Compositions and Arrangements of Christmas Songs 427/4/1 Angel Bright (SA) 427/4/2 Birds, The (SATB) 427/4/3 Carols for Male Voice (TTBB) 427/4/4 Christmas Legend (SATB) 427/4/5 Falan Tidings (TTBB) 427/4/6 I Sing the Birth (SATB) 427/4/7 King Herod and the Cock (SATB) 427/4/8 Let All Mortal Flesh (no words) 427/4/9 Little Child, A (SATB) 427/4/10 Make We Joy (Solo and piano) 427/4/11 Puer Nobis 427/4/12 Spanish Carol (SATB) 427/4/13 Where Go Ye Now (SATB) 427/4/14 Where Go Ye Now (SA) 427/5 Miscellaneous Pieces Composed or Arranged by John Shaw 427/5/1 Three Miniatures for String Quartet 427/5/2 Reverie for String Quartet (Score and parts). “The first of a group of miniatures brought on by a period of changeable weather” 427/5/3 Play with Music: Book by Paul Ellington, Music by John W. Shaw 427/5/4 Some Show Songs (Piano, violin, viola, cello) “Not complete” Includes: A couple of swells, Getting to know you, I can’t say no, The surrey with the fringe on top 427/5/5 Programme for concert at St. Mark’s Church, Grenoside, 30 Nov 1974 Includes music by John W. Shaw 427/6 Presentation Copies of Compositions by John Shaw 427/6/1 String Quartet No. 1 in B Minor 10 Jan 1989 427/6/2 String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor 1989, revised 1999 427/6/3 String Quartet No. 3 in C Minor “First performance given by the Tintagel Quartet on 16th October 1994 at Tintagel House, Sheffield. John Cooper 1st V, Lynne Clark 2nd V, Barbara Chisholm Vla, Deborah Saville Cello” 427/6/4 String Quartet No. 4. Single movement. Based on music by George H. Shaw “First performance given by the Tintagel Quartet on 16th October 1994 at Tintagel House, Sheffield. John Cooper 1st V, Lynne Clark 2nd V, Barbara Chisholm Vla, Deborah Saville Cello” 427/6/5 String Quartet No. 5 427/6/6 String Quartet No. 6 427/6/7 A Red, Red Rose. Words by Robert Burns, 1960 revised March 1979. Dedicated to Michael A. Sharpe 427/6/8 Moonlit Apples. John Drinkwater - John W. Shaw, 11 Jun 1998 For Pat Schofield and Di Bownes 427/6/9 Two Pieces for Flute and Piano, 1 Sep 1976 427/6/10 Diversion for Two Flutes, 4 Sep 1984 427/6/11 Kyrie Eleison (three-fold) 427/6/12 Gloria in Excelsis 427/6/13 Sanctus 427/6/14 Angel Bright: a Song for Christmas, 11 Nov 1976 427/6/15 A Little Suite for 4 Violoncelli 427/6/16 The Faithful Swallow For Margaret Barlow 427/6/17 First or Last. Thomas Hardy, 1 June 1973 For the Bingley Seat Singers 427/6/18 Ma Belle Marguerite. Vivian Ellis, arranged by G.H. Shaw for the Firshill Singers 427/6/19 The Bells of London Town 427/6/20 Duetto for Evelyn and Alan 427/6/21 Concert Piece for Bb Cornet (Trumpet) 427/6/22 God, Whose Farm is All Creation. Words by John Arlott Written for the choir of Christ Church, Hillsborough and Wadsley Bridge 427/6/23 Elegy for Violoncello and Piano 427/6/24 Sonata for Violoncello and Pianoforte For Philippa M. Jones 427/6/25 Sonatina in G Minor for Violin and Pianoforte, Jan 1976 427/6/26 String Trio, May 1988 427/6/27 A Taste of Honey. Bobby Scott, arranged by J.W. Shaw 427/6/28 Jesu Dulcis Memoria. 12th century, tr. E. Caswall. 24 Sep 1977 .