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2701. MS Mus. 1778/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/3/2
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Music for schoolchildren
Scope & Content:
Assorted material, including complete copies of unpublished works written while Birtwistle was a teacher at Cranborne Chase School (1960-1965): (1). ff. 1-6. 'Crescendo e diminuendo 'Nowell Nowell”, a complete short work for wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, cor anglais, bassoon). Frequent ‘...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1965
Extent:
1 volume (31 folios)

2702. MS Mus. 1778/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/3/3
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: 5 hardbound music books
Scope & Content:
5 hardbound music manuscript books, likely of nineteenth-century origin; from inscriptions on the spines, the books appear to have been used as partbooks for sacred works at Wardour Castle and Cranborne Chase School, where Birtwistle taught music between 1960-1965. Spare pages, interspersed betw...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1965
Extent:
5 volumes

2703. MS Mus. 1778/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/4/1
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Miscellaneous and unidentified material, volume 1
Scope & Content:
Various sketches, typescripts and notes, mostly provisionally identified or unidentified. (1). ff.1-17. Material possibly relating to ‘Earth Dances’ (1985-6): 10 folios of assorted sketches and jottings on 12-stave manuscript paper; 7 further folios of numerical and rhythmic workings. (2). f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1970-1989
Extent:
1 volume (98 folios)

2704. MS Mus. 1778/4/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/4/2
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Miscellaneous and unidentified material, volume 2
Scope & Content:
30 folios of miscellaneous and unidentified sketches, 27 of which appear to belong to the same work. (1). ff. 1-26. Detailed sketches for an orchestral or ensemble work. Possibly sketches for 'Gawain' based on textures and several recurring motivic patterns, but not positively identified. The s...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965-1989
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

2705. MS Mus. 1778/4/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/4/3
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Miscellaneous and unidentified material, volume 3
Scope & Content:
77 folios of assorted material on A2 manuscript paper, mostly unidentified. Sketches for various stages of compositional process, including numerical pitch schemes and fuller melodic, rhythmic and textural workings. Some possibly relates to 'Earth Dances' (see MS Mus. 1778/2/1). Identified leave...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1978-1989
Extent:
1 volume (77 folios)

2706. MS Mus. 1778/4/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/4/4
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Music by other composers
Scope & Content:
Unpublished scores of music by other composers: (1). ff. 1-2. Alan Cohen, ‘Blues / A Birthday Piece for Cor’. Dated '6/5/56'. Short piano piece dedicated to Cornelius Cardew. (2). ff. 3-4. Peter Maxwell Davies, ‘Two 14th cent. Motets on St Edmund’. 3- and 4-part motet ‘Deus tuorum militum’, ne...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1955-1969
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

2707. MS Mus. 1778/4/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/4/5
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Assorted notebooks
Scope & Content:
(1). ‘Book of Magic’. A4 squared notebook containing randomly-generated numbers and assorted sketches. Heavily worn, as it was used as a frequent source of reference for the composer. Front cover reads 'BOOK OF MAGIC - BEWARE!'. Inside annotation by HB reads: 'This notebook came from Bryn Mawr U...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1999
Extent:
1 volume

2708. MS Mus. 1778/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/5/1
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Correspondence and papers
Scope & Content:
Assorted letters and papers, mainly of professional content, dating from the 1960s to the late 1980s. 72 individual items, arranged in chronological order. These include 58 letters, all addressed to Birtwistle, unless otherwise stated. From: Nigel Abercrombie; Arts Council of Great Britain; Laur...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1990
Extent:

1 volume

2709. MS Mus. 1778/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/5/2
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Photographs
Scope & Content:
18 photographs, arranged in approximate chronological order. These include: Birtwistle in a school orchestra, aged 16, dated 1950. Original and photocopy 8 headshots 4 portraits, including one by George Newson, signed and dated 1991 Portrait of the Pierrot Players, with heads cut out (one head –...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1950-1991
Extent:
1 volume

2710. MS Mus. 1784/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1784/1/1
Title:
Malcolm Sargent Archive. General correspondence
Scope & Content:
1: f. 1: Noel [?]: 7 July 1928: Request to conduct the Society’s performances of ‘Merrie England’ 2: ff. 2-6: Ethel Coates: Acting Hon. Gen. Sec. Winchester and County Musical Festival 1929: 23 June 1928: Invitation to conduct at the Winchester and County Music Festival 1929; 2 programmes for t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1929
Extent:
219 folios

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