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Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/9/6
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Further unidentified loose sketches
Scope & Content:: Numerous and various loose sketches, for the most part unidentified. ff. 1-26. A composition for orchestra, possibly Suite for orchestra (1953) f. 46. Fragment of a sketch for 'Counting the beats' (words by Robert Graves, 1963)
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1950-1980?]
Extent:: 92 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/9/7
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Sketch material for Op. 3; Op. 16; Op. 30
Scope & Content:: Two sets of sketch material, and a correction: • (1). ff. 1-3. ‘Jonah’ (oratorio), Op. 3 (1933-5). Incomplete pencil draft, chorus (3 ff., 32-stave paper, 400 x 290 mm). • (2). ff. 4-9. Symphony no. 1, Op. 16 (1940-1). Drafts and sketches in ink (6 ff.). • (3). f. 10. Concerto for two piano...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1933-1948
Extent:: 10 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/10
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Works by Other Composers
Scope & Content:: 'Variations on a Theme by Lennox Berkeley' (Reapers’ chorus from Ruth) by several composers (former pupils) in celebration of Berkeley's 80th birthday (1983); and various pencil drafts by unidentified pupils, including some comments and annotations in Berkeley's hand.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1955]-1983
Extent:: 2 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/11/1
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Various music manuscript notebooks
Scope & Content:: (1). Music manuscript notebook (330 x 250 mm, soft blue-grey covers). Front label (black ink): 'Clefs (2) / L. M. d'Eppinghoven' [Berkeley's cousin: Lison (1894-1966)]. Contains several student exercises, in pencil and black ink, dated 1917-18. Inserted loosely at the inside back cover are 3 bifo...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1917-[1974]
Extent:: 68 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/11/2
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Various manuscripts and fragments
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-4. 'Toccata', for piano. Autograph score, in blue ink (10-stave paper, 310 x 235 mm), pp. 1-8. Signed and dated on f. 1r (1925), and dated at the end of the score: 'Negron - Sept-Oct: 1925'. Dedication (f. 1r): 'To J. F. Waterhouse'. (2). ff. 5-13. 'Lay your sleeping head, my love' (Op...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1925-[c 1980]
Extent:: 29 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/11/3
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45 (annotated published piano score)
Scope & Content:: Annotated published score, piano reduction (J.W.C. 9752). Pencil annotations throughout may be from the première conducted by Vilem Tausky at Aldeburgh in 1954.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1954-1955
Extent:: 99 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/11/4
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Symphony No. 2, Op. 51 (annotated dyeline copy of autograph full score)
Scope & Content:: Bound and annotated dyeline copy of autograph full score (copyright J. & W. Chester, 1958), pp. 1-130. Performance annotations in pencil throughout. First performance: Birmingham Town Hall, 24 February 1959. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, cond. Andrzej Panufnik. First London performa...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1958-1959
Extent:: 130 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/11/5
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Castaway, Op. 68 (annotated dyeline copy of autograph full score)
Scope & Content:: Annotated dyeline copy of autograph full score. Dated '1965-66' within the copy on the final page. Also dated (annotated within the copy, p. 1) copyright J. & W. Chester, 1967. Stamped: Chester Orchestral Hire Library. Annotated in pencil and blue pencil. Title to (added) front cover-page i...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1965-1967
Extent:: 111 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/11/6
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Magnificat, Op. 71 (annotated published full score)
Scope & Content:: J & W Chester / Edition Wilhelm Hansen London Ltd, 1968 (pp. 1-80). Front label: 'Chester Music Hire Material'. Dated at the end of the score: 'Dec: 1967 - April: 1968'. Performance annotations throughout in pencil. With a Chester Orchestral Hire Library receipt in the name of Christopher R...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1968-1986
Extent:: 42 folios

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