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61. MS Mus. 1801/9/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/9/1
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson (draft libretto, ink drafts and sketches)
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-19. Libretto: Synopsis/libretto notes (2 ff., pencil) in Berkeley's hand, including Act II, Scene 1. On the verso of one sheet, the start of an unfinished letter (ink) to Alan [Pryce-Jones], dated 1 February 1952. Typed synopsis of Act I (1 f.). Typed libretto, Act I, pp. 1-14. Typed ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-[1953]
Extent:

181 folios

62. MS Mus. 1801/9/1-2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/9/1-2
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Drafts and sketches for Nelson
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-[1953]
Extent:

2 files

63. MS Mus. 1801/9/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/9/2
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson (pencil drafts), Act I and II
Scope & Content:
Various pencil drafts (with identifying slips) divided as follows: f. 1. Brief autograph ink draft letter (abandoned) from Berkeley to Alan [Pryce-Jones], 9 June 1952, hoping that he will be able 'to meet Eric on Monday afternoon'. With other libretto notes in pencil on the same sheet of paper. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1951-1953]
Extent:

154 folios

64. MS Mus. 1801/9/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/9/3
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson (pencil drafts), Act III
Scope & Content:
Act III, pencil draft material
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1951-1953]
Extent:

82 folios

65. MS Mus. 1801/9/6

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

66. MS Mus. 1801/9/7

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

67. MS Mus. 1801/10

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

68. MS Mus. 1801/11

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1801/11
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: Material Borrowed by Joan Redding
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1986
Extent:
6 files

69. MS Mus. 1801/11/1

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

70. MS Mus. 1801/11/2

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