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2. Add MS 60609-60610
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60609-60610
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66
- Scope & Content:
- A non-liturgical setting of the requiem mass, for soprano, tenor, and baritone solos, chorus, orchestra, chamber orchestra, boys' choir and organ. Texts: the Missa pro Defunctis (Latin), and poems by Wilfred Owen. Dedicated to Roger Burney, Piers Dunkerley, David Gill and Michael Halliday. In t...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1961-1979
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
3. Add MS 60609
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60609
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (short score)
- Scope & Content:
- Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, signed by Britten (f. 2) and dated by him: 'Aldeburgh Dec. 20th 1961' (f. 68). The volume comprises the complete composition, together with additional discarded draft material, as follows: half title (f. 1); epigraph, drawn from Wilfred Owen (f. 1v); title...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1961-1979
- Extent:
- 1 volume (102 folios)
4. Add MS 60610
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60610
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (full score)
- Scope & Content:
- Partially autograph music manuscript, in pencil and in black ink, including the hands of two copyists (Imogen Holst and Rosamund Strode) - see Philip Reed, in Mervyn Cooke, Britten: 'War Requiem' (1996), p. 46. Dated (Holst's hand): 'Aldeburgh, December 20th 1961' (f. 137), and annotated (in th...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1961
- Extent:
- 1 volume (137 folios)