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21. Add MS 60609

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, signed by Britten (f. 2) and dated by him: 'Aldeburgh Dec. 20th 1961' (f. 68). The volume comprises the complete composition, together with additional discarded draft material, as follows: half title (f. 1); epigraph, drawn from Wilfred Owen (f. 1v); title...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961-1979
Extent:
1 volume (102 folios)

22. Add MS 60609-60610

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66
Scope & Content:
A non-liturgical setting of the requiem mass, for soprano, tenor, and baritone solos, chorus, orchestra, chamber orchestra, boys' choir and organ. Texts: the Missa pro Defunctis (Latin), and poems by Wilfred Owen. Dedicated to Roger Burney, Piers Dunkerley, David Gill and Michael Halliday. In t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961-1979
Extent:
2 volumes

23. Add MS 60610

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (full score)
Scope & Content:
Partially autograph music manuscript, in pencil and in black ink, including the hands of two copyists (Imogen Holst and Rosamund Strode) - see Philip Reed, in Mervyn Cooke, Britten: 'War Requiem' (1996), p. 46. Dated (Holst's hand): 'Aldeburgh, December 20th 1961' (f. 137), and annotated (in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961
Extent:
1 volume (137 folios)

24. Add MS 60611

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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)

25. Add MS 60612

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Curlew River', op. 71 (short score)
Scope & Content:
An autograph short score, in pencil (ff. 1-44v), together with discarded autograph draft material (ff. 46-55). With Britten's initials on the title page (f. 1). The music in the draft material has been identified (and annotated in pencil by the Britten-Pears Library) at the foot of ff. 46, 47,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
1 volume (55 folios)

26. Add MS 60612-60613

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Curlew River', op. 71
Scope & Content:
A short score and a partly autograph full score. Libretto: William Plomer, from the medieval Japanese Nō play Sumidagawa by Jūrō Motomasa. First performance: 12 June 1964, Orford Church, Aldeburgh Festival. First broadcast: 21 June 1964 (BBC Third Programme).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
2 volumes

27. Add MS 60613

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Curlew River', op. 71 (full score)
Scope & Content:
A partially autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with pasted-down additions in black ink for voice and chorus. Dated, in Britten's hand: 'Score finished / Maundy Thursday / March 1964' (f. 396). For tenor, two baritones, treble and bass voices, with the following 'Instrumentalists' indicated...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
1 volume (398 folios)

28. Add MS 60614

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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)

29. Add MS 60615

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, including discarded passages. Dated by Britten: 'November 10th 1968' (f. 20v). Title page (f. 1): 'Kinderkreuzzug 1939 (Brecht) / For Boy's [sic] voices (solo & chorus) / 2 pianos & percussion / (with electric organ to support voices)'; list of voic...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)

30. Add MS 60615-60616

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Add MS 60615-60616
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82
Scope & Content:
In two volumes, an autograph short score and a partly autograph full score. Text by Bertolt Brecht. Set in German, and set separately in English (translation by Hans Keller). First performance: 19 May 1969, St Paul's Cathedral, London (relayed by BBC Radio 3).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968-1969
Extent:
2 volumes