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61. MS Mus. 1804/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/10
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge', an opera for radio
Scope & Content:
Libretto by the composer, after the short story by Ambrose Bierce. 1981, 1984 and undated.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1981-1984
Extent:
4 volumes

62. MS Mus. 1804/1/10/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/10/1
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge', an opera for radio. Draft scripts
Scope & Content:
Drafts of the script, some of them including reference to the tape and live sound-effects; 1981. In ink, and typescript. With a later draft 'corrected July 1984'. Also present is a leaf of research on 'American usage of the 1860s' and a photocopy of the Bierce short story on which the opera is ba...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1981-1985
Extent:
1 volume

63. MS Mus. 1804/1/10/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/10/2
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge', an opera for radio. Composition draft
Scope & Content:
'Final sketches'; 1981. Composition draft in pencil.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1981
Extent:
1 volume

64. MS Mus. 1804/1/10/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/10/3
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge', an opera for radio. Incomplete vocal score and complete full score
Scope & Content:
(1.) 'Part of vocal score, unrevised'. In ink. Piano reduction of the opening of the piece (up to the end of the 2nd bar of fig. 44), in which the tape line is largely empty, but the piano reduction and vocal lines are largely present. (2.) Full score; 1981.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1981?-1984?
Extent:
1 volume

65. MS Mus. 1804/1/10/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/10/4
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge', an opera for radio. Press cuttings and programmes
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1981?-1988
Extent:
1 volume

66. MS Mus. 1804/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/11
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'Harriet, the Woman Called Moses', opera
Scope & Content:
'Harriet, the Woman Called Moses'. Opera in two acts, based on the life of the abolitionist and former slave Harriet Tubman. Libretto by the composer.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1980-1990
Extent:
9 volumes

67. MS Mus. 1804/1/11/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/11/1
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'Harriet, the Woman Called Moses', opera. Source material for the libretto
Scope & Content:
Copies of literature and songs relating to the history of Harriet Tubman and her social context.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1982-1986
Extent:
1 volume

68. MS Mus. 1804/1/11/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/11/2
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'Harriet, the Woman Called Moses', opera. Libretto drafts
Scope & Content:
Libretto drafts, many of them heavily annotated, with paste-downs, some with title 'Freedom'. One version has been reviewed by Mary Lee Settle.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1980-1983
Extent:
1 volume

69. MS Mus. 1804/1/11/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/11/3
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'Harriet, the Woman Called Moses', opera. Revisions and early vocal score fragment
Scope & Content:
(1.) Vocal score of early version of Act I prelude; 1982. (2.) Lists and annotated photocopies indicating revisions to the full score and vocal score after the world première; July 1985-January 1986. (3.) Lists and revised pages relating to revisions to the vocal score after the world première; 1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1982-1986
Extent:
1 volume

70. MS Mus. 1804/1/11/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1804/1/11/4
Title:
Thea Musgrave: 'Harriet, the Woman Called Moses', opera. Materials relating to world première production
Scope & Content:
(1.) Correspondence with Robert Claytor, dedicatee of the opera and director of the Norfolk Southern railway company, the principal sponsor of the world première production. (2.) Drawings of set designs by Jeff Beecroft. Photocopies. (3.) Educational materials produced at the time of the world pr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1985
Extent:

1 volume