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1. Add MS 68893-68901

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'THE WRECKERS': opera by Ethel Smyth, (words, H. B. Brewster, English translation by the composer and Alma Strettell) ; circa 1906-1939. Copyist's full score, annotated libretti, and other performance material. With autograph annotations. Partly German. The opera, in three acts, was composed in 1903-1904 to Brewster's original French libretto as 'Les Naufrageurs', and first staged in Leipzig in 1906 in German as 'Strandrecht'. The English text was produced for the first English stage perform...
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Alma Strettell, afterwards Harrison; writer: Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE; composer: Henry Bennet Brewster, writer: Annotated full score, libretti, costume designs, etc., for opera 'The Wreckers' by Ethel Mary Smyth, libretto by Henry Bennet Brewster, translated by Alma Strettell: circa 1906-1939: Part...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
c 1906-1939
Extent:
13 items

2. Add MS 68900

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'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. VIII. Scenario; after 1916. Typewritten. German. Three copies, with separate autograph notes (ff. 18-22v). The page references given in this scenario are to the 1916 vocal score, though a brief additional cut in Act III is called for. ff. i+22. 290 x 225mm.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1916
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 68896

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Add MS 68896
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'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. IV. Vocal score; 1906 and later. Printed, with autograph and other manuscript annotations. The 1906 printed score, revised in manuscript, by blank paste-downs, and by the insertion of revised printed pages, to give essentially the musical text of the 1916 published vocal sco...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 68898

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Add MS 68898
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'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. VI. Libretto; printed, Woking, 1909. Interleaved; annotated by the composer with revisions of the text, and stage directions. Marked 'Property of Ethel Smyth' on front cover, where there is also a note by her dated 1931 similar in effect to that in Add. 68897 B above. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 68901

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'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. IX. Costume designs and cast lists; [1909]-1910. ff. 39. 330 x 200mm. 1. ff. 1-28. Drawings in watercolour, pencil, and ink and wash, of costumes for male and female principals and chorus members, for the production at His Majesty's Theatre, London, 1909, some with the n...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1909]-1910
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 68893-68895

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Add MS 68893-68895
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'THE WRECKERS'. Vols. I-III. Full score. Copy with autograph annotations. Evidently the work of a German copyist, with the German words in the same hand. The English words added in another hand, with frequent revisions by the composer, and occasional revisions, in a different hand again, in pencil. The copyist's musical text itself has minor additions and corrections in the hand of the composer, and many cuts are marked, and extensive revised passages, mostly in the hand of the composer, ins...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
3 items

7. Add MS 68899 A-D

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Add MS 68899 A-D
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'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. VII A-D. Libretti; printed, London, 1909. Four copies, each lacking the portrait of Ethel Smyth on the front cover. In its place the composer has marked each copy with the name of a separate character - Pascoe, Laurence, Mark and Thirza - and the date Oct. 1931. Each copy is annotated by her with notes on the characterisation of the role concerned, and with revisions of the text, stage directions, and stage plans. Add. 49196, f. 124, lists '5 Textbooks (Principals) + 3 i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
4 items

8. Add MS 68897 A-B

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Add MS 68897 A-B
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'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. V A, B. Libretti; typewritten 1909, with annotations by the composer, 1909-1931 and later. Both 275 x 235mm.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1931
Extent:
2 items

9. Add MS 68899 A

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Add MS 68899 A
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Vol A
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1909-1989]
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 68899 B

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Add MS 68899 B
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Scope & Content:
Vol B
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1909-1989]
Extent:
1 item