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301. Add MS 58005

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Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Sea-Pictures', cycle of songs for voice and orchestra, op. 37
Scope & Content:
Full score. Signed 'Birchwood Lodge Aug. 18 1899' (f. 57). Annotated in red ink, pencil and crayon. 'Written for Norwich Festival, 1899' (f. 2). Manuscript presented to Sidney and Madge Jebb Scott, Christmas 1902 (a letter from their daughter (?) Margaret returning the manuscript to Carice Blake...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899
Extent:
1 volume (i + 57 folios)

302. Add MS 58024

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Scope & Content:
ELGAR COLLECTION. Vol. XLI. Symphony No. 1 in A flat, op. 55; signed 'Roma 1907' (f. 1) and 'Rome and Hereford 1908' (f. 161). Full score. Annotated in blue crayon and pencil and with engraver's markings. Dedicated to Hans Richter. See also Add. 47907 A, 63155, 63160 and 63162. Published Novello...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1908
Extent:
1 item

303. Add MS 58030

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Scope & Content:
ELGAR COLLECTION. Vol. XLVII. Concerto in B minor: full score. Solo violin line partly printed. Annotated in red and green inks and with printer's pencil and blue and red crayon markings. Published Novello & Co., 1910. ff. 226. 378 x 275mm. Bound in red cloth [leather?] by Wilson and Phill...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:
1 item

304. Add MS 59798

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Benjamin Britten: 'A Boy Was Born', choral variations for unaccompanied men's, women's and boys' voices, op. 3
Scope & Content:
A set of nine vocal parts, marked Boys, Sopranos I, Sopranos II, Altos I, Altos II, Tenors I, Tenors II, Basses I and Basses II. Autograph music manuscript in ink, with numerous paste-down corrections and some pencil annotations. 'A Boy Was Born' received its first public performance at the Merc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1933
Extent:
1 volume (i + 72 folios)

305. Add MS 60593

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Sinfonietta for Ten Instruments', op. 1
Scope & Content:
Full score, for flute, oboe, clarinet in B flat, bassoon, horn in F, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello, and double bass. Autograph music manuscript, in ink, with annotations in red crayon and hinged and pasted-down corrections. I. Poco presto e agitato (ff. 2v-22v); II. 'Variations': Anda...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
1 volume (70 folios)

306. Add MS 60594

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Phantasy', op. 2 (score)
Scope & Content:
Score, for oboe, violin, viola, violoncello. Autograph music manuscript, in ink, with hinged and pasted-down corrections. Dated 'Sept.-Oct. 1932' (f. 1), and signed by Britten on ff. 1 and 33v. f. 34 is a superceded folio containing 30 bars from the middle of the work.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)

307. Add MS 60595

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Phantasy', op. 2 (parts)
Scope & Content:
Parts for oboe (ff. 1-8), violin (ff. 9-25), viola (ff. 26-38), and violoncello (ff. 39-51). Autograph music manuscript, in blue ink, with annotations in red ink and red and blue crayon, and with additional smaller folios hinged or pasted-down. Signed by Britten on ff. 1, 9, 26, and 39.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
1 volume (51 folios)

308. Add MS 60596

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Friday Afternoons', op. 7
Scope & Content:
Title-page (f. i): 'Friday Afternoons / A Dozen School Songs', with Britten's signature. Autograph music manuscript. The volume contains the following songs (numbered in red crayon), scored mainly for voice and piano: I. 'Be-gone dull care!' (f. 1-1v). Words anonymous. Scored in pencil, initi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1935
Extent:
1 volume (i + 32 folios)

309. Add MS 60597

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge', op. 10
Scope & Content:
Short score (in pencil) for string orchestra. Autograph music manuscript, with Britten's signature to title page (f. 1). The manuscript is not dated. The theme is taken from the second of Bridge's Three Idylls for string quartet, Op. 6. Dedication (f. 1v): 'To FB - himself / His integrity / ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1937]
Extent:
1 volume (26 folios)

310. Add MS 60598

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Song for St Cecilia' [Hymn to St Cecilia], op. 27
Scope & Content:
Words, W.H. Auden. Short score, for five-part unaccompanied chorus. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with an addition in red crayon on f. 7v. The work's original title ('Song for St Cecilia') is written across partially erased score which has also been struck-through (f. 1), and f. 1v is ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

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