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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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Assorted material, including complete copies of unpublished works written while Birtwistle was a teacher at Cranborne Chase School (1960-1965): (1).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)

4. 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

5. 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)

6. MS Mus. 1778/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/3/1
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Early works
Scope & Content:
Drafts and sketches for various early works, none of which are published. Arranged in approximate chronological order. Some retrospectively signed and roughly dated by the composer. (1). ff. 1-2. ‘Pantomime: Choreographic Sketch for Three Mime Dancers and Unaccompanied Clarinet’, c. 1945. Compl...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1955
Extent:
1 volume (23 folios)

7. MS Mus. 1778/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/2/1
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: 'Earth Dances' sketch material
Scope & Content:
Sketch material for Earth Dances, for large orchestra. Premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Peter Eötvös. Sketches are on A2 manuscript paper, and relate to various stages of the compositional process, including melodic, rhythmic, harmonic, and textural workings, with some extended deve...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1985-1986
Extent:
1 volume (i + 64 folios)

8. MS Mus. 1778/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/2/2
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: 'Salford Toccata' sketch material
Scope & Content:
Loose pages, plus 2 small notebooks, containing sketch material for Salford Toccata, for brass ensemble. Premiered 1989 by Salford College Brass Band and Elgar Howarth. (1). ff. 1-17. Loose pages containing extensive sketches, many of which relate to an advanced stage in the composition process...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1989
Extent:
1 volume (35 folios)

9. 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)

10. MS Mus. 1778/2/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/2/6
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Leaves relating to settings of Robin Blaser poems
Scope & Content:
Sketches for musical settings of poems by Robin Blaser (‘The Shadow’ and ‘Carmelo Point’), neither of which are referenced in existing Birtwistle literature. This material provides a new insight into Birtwistle’s relationship with Blaser, the librettist of 'The Last Supper', whose poems are also...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1990s
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)