Search

Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 60593-60626 Language English Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 60593-60626

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60593-60626
Title:
Britten Manuscripts: Musical compositions of Benjamin Britten
Scope & Content:
All scores are wholly autograph, with the exception of some full scores which were prepared with the help of an amanuensis; these have been indicated as partly autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1925-1979
Extent:
34 volumes

2. Add MS 60596

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60596
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Friday Afternoons', op. 7
Scope & Content:
Title-page (f. i): 'Friday Afternoons / A Dozen School Songs', with Britten's signature. Autograph music manuscript. The volume contains the following songs (numbered in red crayon), scored mainly for voice and piano: I. 'Be-gone dull care!' (f. 1-1v). Words anonymous. Scored in pencil, initi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1935
Extent:
1 volume (i + 32 folios)

3. Add MS 60598

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60598
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Song for St Cecilia' [Hymn to St Cecilia], op. 27
Scope & Content:
Words, W.H. Auden. Short score, for five-part unaccompanied chorus. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with an addition in red crayon on f. 7v. The work's original title ('Song for St Cecilia') is written across partially erased score which has also been struck-through (f. 1), and f. 1v is ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

4. Add MS 60599

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60599
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Serenade' for tenor, horn and strings, op. 31
Scope & Content:
Short score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with some revision of song titles in red crayon. The 'Prologue' and 'Epilogue' are not included. Title page (f. 1): 'Serenade', in red crayon, written across a draft of the beginning (struck-through) of 'Dirge' (cf. f. 9). The draft continues ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 volume (15 folios)

5. Add MS 60600

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60600
Title:
Benjamin Britten: '[The] Beggar's Opera', op. 43
Scope & Content:
Ballad-opera with words by John Gay and music realized from the original airs by Benjamin Britten. Full score, mostly in pencil, mostly autograph (apart from ff. 124-128v and ff. 139-140v which are in black ink, in the hand of Arthur Oldham, Britten's pupil and assistant). Adhered to the inside...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948-1979
Extent:
1 volume (i + 189 folios)

6. Add MS 60601

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60601
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Abraham & Isaac or Canticle II', op. 51
Scope & Content:
Score, for alto and tenor voices and piano. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil (small additions in blue ink on f. 3v and on f. 9). Britten's initials on the title page (f. 1). Not dated. Text: from the Chester Miracle Play Histories of Lot and Abraham. First performance: 21 January 1952, Al...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1952]
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

7. Add MS 60602

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60602
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Short score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with Britten's initials on ff. 5 and 47. Dated (f. 85): 'Aldeburgh April 1st - July 23rd 1954'. However, Paul Banks, Benjamin Britten: A Catalogue of the Published Works (1999) remarks that the date of commencement is inaccurate, and also that...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954
Extent:
1 volume (105 folios)

8. Add MS 60602-60604

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60602-60604
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54
Scope & Content:
Opera with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after the novella by Henry James. A short score (autograph) in a single volume, and a full score (partly autograph) in two volumes. First performance: 14 September 1954, Teatro La Fenice, Venice (relayed by Radio Italiana, and by the BBC Third Programme).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-1979
Extent:
3 volumes

9. Add MS 60603

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60603
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54 (full score, Act I)
Scope & Content:
Partly autograph full score for Act I. According to an editorial note (1979) by Rosamund Strode, pasted to the inside front cover (f. i), Britten's score in pencil was, at the composer's request, inked-over by Imogen Holst so that it could be used as a conducting score for the first performance...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-1979
Extent:
1 volume (folios ii + 162)

10. Add MS 60604

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60604
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54 (full score, Act II)
Scope & Content:
Partly autograph full score for Act II. In common with the full score for Act I, Britten's score in pencil was inked-over, at the composer's request, by Imogen Holst, so that it could serve as a conducting score for the first performance of the music; see the note (1979) by Rosamund Strode on t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954
Extent:
1 volume (i + 181)