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21. Add MS 60613

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Curlew River', op. 71 (full score)
Scope & Content:
A partially autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with pasted-down additions in black ink for voice and chorus. Dated, in Britten's hand: 'Score finished / Maundy Thursday / March 1964' (f. 396). For tenor, two baritones, treble and bass voices, with the following 'Instrumentalists' indicated...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
1 volume (398 folios)

22. Add MS 60614

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Songs & Proverbs of William Blake', op. 74
Scope & Content:
For baritone and piano. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, dated, in Britten's hand: 'April 6th 1965' (f. 24). The title page (f. 1) shows faint traces of the work's original title ('Songs & Sentences') which Britten erased before writing 'Songs & Proverbs'. The texts, from William ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965
Extent:
1 volume (25 folios)

23. Add MS 60615

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, including discarded passages. Dated by Britten: 'November 10th 1968' (f. 20v). Title page (f. 1): 'Kinderkreuzzug 1939 (Brecht) / For Boy's [sic] voices (solo & chorus) / 2 pianos & percussion / (with electric organ to support voices)'; list of voic...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)

24. Add MS 60615-60616

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82
Scope & Content:
In two volumes, an autograph short score and a partly autograph full score. Text by Bertolt Brecht. Set in German, and set separately in English (translation by Hans Keller). First performance: 19 May 1969, St Paul's Cathedral, London (relayed by BBC Radio 3).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968-1969
Extent:
2 volumes

25. Add MS 60616

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (full score)
Scope & Content:
A partly autograph music manuscript, in pencil, setting a text by Bertolt Brecht (translated by Hans Keller). Signed and dated by Britten: 'Aldeburgh October-November 1968' (f. 1), with an additional folio dated in a copyist's hand: 'Sept. '69' (f. 48). The volume comprises: title page (f. 1), ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968-1969
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

26. Add MS 60618

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: Canticle V 'The Death of Saint Narcissus', op. 89
Scope & Content:
An autograph score, in pencil, for tenor and harp, dated 'Horham July 1974' (f. 9). The text is taken from the poem 'The Death of Saint Narcissus' by T. S. Eliot, and the work is dedicated to William Plomer. The volume comprises: the text (typescript) of 'The Death of Saint Narcissus' [by T. S...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1974
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

27. Add MS 60619

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Sacred and Profane', op. 91
Scope & Content:
Eight medieval lyrics for unaccompanied voices (SSATB). Autograph music manuscript, in pencil. Signed, and dated 'Dec 1974 - Jan 1975' (f. 2). The volume comprises: title page ('Mediaeval Lyrics / Sacred & Profane'), with Britten's initials and his dedication: 'For P[eter]P[ears] & the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1974-1975
Extent:
1 volume (17 folios)

28. Add MS 60621

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: Music for the documentary film Night Mail (1936), directed by Harry Watt and Basil Wright
Scope & Content:
Night Mail is a short documentary film produced by the General Post Office (G.P.O.) Film Unit about the London, Midland and Scottish Railway mail train making its journey north, from London to Scotland. Britten's contribution included the title music and the music for the end sequence, which was...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)

29. Add MS 60622

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: Incidental music for The Ascent of F6
Scope & Content:
Incidental music for The Ascent of F6, a stage play by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. Signed by Britten on ff 1, 1v, 3, and 47. The volume is not dated. Full autograph score, in ink (with some additions in pencil and red crayon), for voices (SATB), percussion, ukulele, and two pianos, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1937]
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

30. Add MS 60626

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: Purcell realisations
Scope & Content:
Three realisations of music by Henry Purcell. None of the manuscripts is dated. 1. Henry Purcell, 'The Golden Sonata' (Z 810), realised for two violins, cello and piano. Entitled 'Sonata IX', scored in pencil with Britten's signature on f. 1 (ff. 1-7v). First performance: 21 November 1945, Wi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1943-1945]
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)