Search

Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 60593-60626 Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 60593

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60593
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 60596

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60596
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)

3. Add MS 60597

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60597
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)

4. Add MS 60598

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60598
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)

5. Add MS 60599

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60599
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)

6. Add MS 60600

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60600
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)

7. Add MS 60601

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60601
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)

8. Add MS 60611

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60611
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Symphony for Cello and Orchestra', op. 68
Scope & Content:
Full score. Music manuscript, in pencil, on two sets of folios of different size bound together. Partly autograph. Dated, in Britten's hand: 'Aldeburgh May 3rd 1963' (f. 74v). Also dated twice [by Boosey & Hawkes]: 'received 24.4.63' (ff. 1 and 30). Title and dedication: 'Cello Symphony / S...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1963
Extent:
1 volume (74 folios)

9. Add MS 60614

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60614
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Songs & Proverbs of William Blake', op. 74
Scope & Content:
For baritone and piano. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, dated, in Britten's hand: 'April 6th 1965' (f. 24). The title page (f. 1) shows faint traces of the work's original title ('Songs & Sentences') which Britten erased before writing 'Songs & Proverbs'. The texts, from William ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965
Extent:
1 volume (25 folios)

10. Add MS 60617

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60617
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Third Suite for Cello', op. 87
Scope & Content:
An autograph score, in pencil, signed by Britten on the title page (f. 2), and dated 'Feb. 23 - March 3 1971 / Aldeburgh' (f. 12v). The work is dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich: 'For Slava' (f. 2). Rostropovich gave the first performance (21 December 1974) at Snape Maltings Concert Hall. The...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1971-1974
Extent:
1 volume (13 folios)