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1. 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)

2. Add MS 60594-60595

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Phantasy', quartet for oboe and strings, op. 2
Scope & Content:
Full score and parts. First performance: Leon Goossens and members of the International String Quartet, 6 August 1933, BBC National. First concert performance: 21 November 1933, Music Club, St John's Institute, London.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
2 volumes

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. Add MS 60599

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Serenade' for tenor, horn and strings, op. 31
Scope & Content:
Short score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with some revision of song titles in red crayon. The 'Prologue' and 'Epilogue' are not included. Title page (f. 1): 'Serenade', in red crayon, written across a draft of the beginning (struck-through) of 'Dirge' (cf. f. 9). The draft continues ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 volume (15 folios)

7. Add MS 60600

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: '[The] Beggar's Opera', op. 43
Scope & Content:
Ballad-opera with words by John Gay and music realized from the original airs by Benjamin Britten. Full score, mostly in pencil, mostly autograph (apart from ff. 124-128v and ff. 139-140v which are in black ink, in the hand of Arthur Oldham, Britten's pupil and assistant). Adhered to the inside...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948-1979
Extent:
1 volume (i + 189 folios)

8. Add MS 60601

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Abraham & Isaac or Canticle II', op. 51
Scope & Content:
Score, for alto and tenor voices and piano. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil (small additions in blue ink on f. 3v and on f. 9). Britten's initials on the title page (f. 1). Not dated. Text: from the Chester Miracle Play Histories of Lot and Abraham. First performance: 21 January 1952, Al...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1952]
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

9. Add MS 60602-60604

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54
Scope & Content:
Opera with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after the novella by Henry James. A short score (autograph) in a single volume, and a full score (partly autograph) in two volumes. First performance: 14 September 1954, Teatro La Fenice, Venice (relayed by Radio Italiana, and by the BBC Third Programme).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-1979
Extent:
3 volumes

10. Add MS 60605-60608

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: ''A Midsummer Night''s Dream'', op. 64
Scope & Content:
Opera in three acts. An autograph short score (''sketches'') in one volume, and a partly autograph full score in three volumes (1960), with later additions and annotations. Text adapted by Britten and Peter Pears from the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. First performance: Aldebur...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1978
Extent:
4 volumes