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21. Add MS 60613

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Curlew River', op. 71 (full score)
Scope & Content:
A partially autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with pasted-down additions in black ink for voice and chorus. Dated, in Britten's hand: 'Score finished / Maundy Thursday / March 1964' (f. 396). For tenor, two baritones, treble and bass voices, with the following 'Instrumentalists' indicated...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
1 volume (398 folios)

22. 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 f. 34 is a superceded folio containing 30 bars from the middle of the work.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)

23. Add MS 60615

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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)

24. Add MS 60616

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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)

25. Add MS 60612

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Curlew River', op. 71 (short score)
Scope & Content:
An autograph short score, in pencil (ff. 1-44v), together with discarded autograph draft material (ff. 46-55). With Britten's initials on the title page (f. 1). The music in the draft material has been identified (and annotated in pencil by the Britten-Pears Library) at the foot of ff. 46, 47,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
1 volume (55 folios)

26. Add MS 60602

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Short score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with Britten's initials on ff. 5 and 47. Dated (f. 85): 'Aldeburgh April 1st - July 23rd 1954'. However, Paul Banks, Benjamin Britten: A Catalogue of the Published Works (1999) remarks that the date of commencement is inaccurate, and also that...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954
Extent:
1 volume (105 folios)

27. 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)

28. Add MS 60607

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (full score, Act II)
Scope & Content:
Full score. Partly autograph music manuscript, largely in pencil (some parts for voices in black ink, in copyist's hand). Prepared for the publishers Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd. Brief notation notes, and notes to the copyist, in Britten's hand, on ff. 1, 6v, 8, 15v, 19v, 22, 43v, 100v (struc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960]
Extent:
1 volume (121 folios)

29. Add MS 60608

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (full score, Act III)
Scope & Content:
Full score. Partly autograph music manuscript, largely in pencil (with some parts for voices in black ink, in copyist's hand). Prepared for the publishers Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd. Brief notation notes, and notes to the copyist, in Britten's hand, on ff. 1v, 11v, 13, 15, 15v, 17v, and 22.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960]
Extent:
1 volume (136 folios)

30. Add MS 60606

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (full score, Act I)
Scope & Content:
Full score. Partly autograph music manuscript, in pencil, prepared for the publishers Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd. There is a note in pencil (1978) by R[osamund]S[trode] at the foot of f. 1v, which copies the note by Britten (in faint pencil) to the copyist at the foot of the opposite folio (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1978
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)