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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60615
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)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60616
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)

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