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Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/11
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Ruth, Op. 50 (libretto and autograph vocal score)
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-1-7. Incomplete typed libretto (Scene 1 only) by [Eric Crozier], title-page and pp. 1-5 and p. 5A. Entitled: 'Ruth / A lyrical opera in two acts'. Annotated in pencil, including melody lines on p. 1. (2). ff. 8-100. Autograph vocal score (incomplete draft), in blue ink. Signed at th...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1955-1956
Extent:: 100 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/11-14
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Ruth (opera in three scenes), Op. 50
Scope & Content:: Libretto (incomplete), sketches and drafts, and annotated dyeline copies of autograph vocal score and full score. First performance: London, Scala Theatre, 2 October 1956. English Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra, cond. Charles Mackerras.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1955-1960
Extent:: 4 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/12
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Ruth, Op. 50 (sketch material and incomplete full score)
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-2. Pencil sketch for the opening prelude and part of the reapers' chorus from Scene II (1 bifolium). (2). ff. f. 3. Pencil sketch for Scene III rehearsal figs. 46-47 (1 folio). (3). ff. 4-5. Pencil sketch for men's hunting chorus, Scene III (1 bifolium). (4). ff. 6-46. Scene I, autogra...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1955]
Extent:: 143 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/13
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Ruth, Op. 50 (printed vocal score)
Scope & Content:: (1) Printed vocal score (J. & W. Chester Ltd, 1960). Stamped: 'Chester Orchestral Hire Library'. Lacking back cover. Front matter and pp. 1-224. Very lightly annotated. (2) Partial dyeline copy of manuscript vocal score, stamped 'Chester Library'. Comprising only incomplete Scene II, pp. 49-8...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1960
Extent:: 20 folios + 224 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/14
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Ruth, Op. 50 (annotated dyeline copy of full score)
Scope & Content:: Annotated dyeline copy of autograph full score, pp. 1-127. Signed on p. 1 within the copy. Stamped 'Chester Orchestral Hire Library'. Occasional marking in pencil.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1956]
Extent:: 145 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/15
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Castaway, Op. 68 (autograph vocal score, pencil draft)
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-148. Autograph vocal score, in black ink and blue ink, pp. 1-15, 17-37, 39-58, 60-102. Signed at the beginning of the work. Pasted-down corrections: ff. 4, 6-7, 10-12, 16, 18-24, 26-33, 38-41, 42-44, 46-48, 50, 52-53, 55-56, 57-61, 63-65, 67-69, 71, 73-74, 77-80, 83-90, 92-93, 95-98, 1...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1965-1966]
Extent:: 150 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/15-18
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Castaway (opera in one act), Op. 68
Scope & Content:: Draft material, vocal score and full score, and annotated dyeline copies. Libretto: Paul Dehn. First performance: Aldeburgh, Jubilee Hall, 3 June 1967. English Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra, cond. Meredith Davies.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1965-1967
Extent:: 4 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/16
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Castaway, Op. 68 (pencil draft and full score)
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-33. Incomplete pencil draft in full score. Outer bifolium and pp. 1-10, 11A, 11B, 17B, 18, [21], 22-35, 36 (struck-through), 36, 36v (struck-through), 37-54, 57-68, 73. (2). ff. 34-277. Autograph full score, in black ink and blue ink. Signed on p. 1, and dated '1965-66' at the end o...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1965-1966
Extent:: 277 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/17
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Castaway, Op. 68 (annotated vocal score)
Scope & Content:: Dyeline copy of vocal score, bound within soft covers (Chester Orchestral Hire Library, copyright 1967). Copyist's hand, pp. 1-70. Some annotation in pencil.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1967
Extent:: i, 35 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/18
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Castaway, Op. 68 (annotated dyeline copy of autograph full score)
Scope & Content:: Dyeline copy of autograph full score, pp. 1-71, 71-142, 144-58 (including an added folio, pp. 156-7, in autograph ink manuscript), and, with some repeated numbering, 157-171, 171A (blank), 172-81. Signed within the copy (p. 1) and dated '1965-66' within the copy at the end of the score. Stampe...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1967
Extent:: 124 folios

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