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Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/18
Title:: Boris Blacher: ‘Der Grossinquisitor’
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-2. Pages. 37–40 from a vocal score of an unpublished version, containing no. 8 (dated 1943), which became no. 7 in the version published in 1951 by Eichmann. Revisions to the words and their associated note-values adopted in the latter version are lightly sketched in. The text is based on...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Undetermined
Date Range:: 1943
Extent:: 1 file (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/19
Title:: Ernest Bloch: ‘Night’ and ‘Trois Paysages’ for string quartet
Scope & Content:: 1. ‘Night. A poem for string quartet’. Published as Night in 1925 by Carl Fischer. 2. Trois Paysages (I. North - II. Alpestre - III. Tongatabou. Published as Paysages (Landscapes) in 1925 by Carl Fischer. Signed and dated by the composer, December 1923. Placed in one folder by the composer, ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Undetermined
Date Range:: 1923
Extent:: 1 file (i + 7 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/21
Title:: Pierre de Bréville: ‘Après la mort’
Scope & Content:: Song for high voice and piano, composed in 1892 and first published in 1913 by Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. The words by Gabriel Trarieux (1870 - 1940). The manuscript bears a dedication at the top of the title page to ‘Madame M. Sulzbach’ and a second dedication signed by composer at the bottom to...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Undetermined
Date Range:: 1500-2015
Extent:: 1 file (3 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/22
Title:: Frank Bridge: ‘Asleep!’
Scope & Content:: For voice and piano. Second version of the song. Further revised and published under the title Adoration (H. 57) in 1917. With the pencil annotation at foot of title page: ‘From the Library of D[enis] Byndon-Ayres (Singer)’. See: P. Hindmarsh, Frank Bridge: a thematic catalogue (1983), p. 37.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Undetermined
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 1 file (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/23
Title:: Benjamin Britten Manuscripts
Scope & Content:: MS Mus. 1810/23/1: Britten: The Sword and the Stone MS Mus. 1810/23/2: Britten: 'Ben was a four-foot seven Wop', from On the frontier
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1930s
Extent:: 2 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/23/1
Title:: Benjamin Britten: The Sword in the Stone
Scope & Content:: Benjamin Britten: ‘The Sword in the Stone’, incidental music for the radio play adapted by Marianne Helwig from the novel by Terence Hanbury White. Autograph full score. Comprising fifteen numbers, with one leaf of the composer's written instructions and comments on the music. Scored for voices...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1939
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/23/2
Title:: Benjamin Britten: ‘Ben was a four-foot seven Wop’, from On the Frontier
Scope & Content:: ‘Ben was a four-foot seven Wop’, from On the Frontier (Auden and Isherwood), Act 3, Scene 1. With letters about this and the preceding manuscript written on the composer’s behalf by R. Strode.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1930s
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/25
Title:: Anton Buckner: draft for the finale of the Symphony No. 7 in E major (WAB 107)
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Undetermined
Date Range:: 1500-2015
Extent:: 1 file

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