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41. Add MS 60605

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60605
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Opera in three acts, in short score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil. Britten's initials appear on the title page to Act II (f. 39), and the manuscript is dated, in Britten's hand, at the end of the score: 'Sketches finished Good Friday 1960' (f. 110v). The folios following contain additi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1971
Extent:
1 volume (i + 124 folios)

42. Add MS 60603

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60603
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54 (full score, Act I)
Scope & Content:
Partly autograph full score for Act I. According to an editorial note (1979) by Rosamund Strode, pasted to the inside front cover (f. i), Britten's score in pencil was, at the composer's request, inked-over by Imogen Holst so that it could be used as a conducting score for the first performance...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-1979
Extent:
1 volume (folios ii + 162)