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1. Add MS 60596

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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)

2. Add MS 60598

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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)

3. Add MS 60599

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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)

4. Add MS 60600

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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)

5. Add MS 60601

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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)

6. Add MS 60602

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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)

7. Add MS 60603

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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)

8. Add MS 60605

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Opera in three acts, in short score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil. Britten's initials appear on the title page to Act II (f. 39), and the manuscript is dated, in Britten's hand, at the end of the score: 'Sketches finished Good Friday 1960' (f. 110v). The folios following contain additi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1971
Extent:
1 volume (i + 124 folios)

9. Add MS 60606

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (full score, Act I)
Scope & Content:
Full score. Partly autograph music manuscript, in pencil, prepared for the publishers Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd. There is a note in pencil (1978) by R[osamund]S[trode] at the foot of f. 1v, which copies the note by Britten (in faint pencil) to the copyist at the foot of the opposite folio (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1978
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

10. Add MS 60607

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (full score, Act II)
Scope & Content:
Full score. Partly autograph music manuscript, largely in pencil (some parts for voices in black ink, in copyist's hand). Prepared for the publishers Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd. Brief notation notes, and notes to the copyist, in Britten's hand, on ff. 1, 6v, 8, 15v, 19v, 22, 43v, 100v (struc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960]
Extent:
1 volume (121 folios)