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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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

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