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11. 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)

12. Add MS 60602

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Short score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with Britten's initials on ff. 5 and 47. Dated (f. 85): 'Aldeburgh April 1st - July 23rd 1954'. However, Paul Banks, Benjamin Britten: A Catalogue of the Published Works (1999) remarks that the date of commencement is inaccurate, and also that...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954
Extent:
1 volume (105 folios)

13. 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

14. Add MS 60603

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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)

15. Add MS 60604

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54 (full score, Act II)
Scope & Content:
Partly autograph full score for Act II. In common with the full score for Act I, Britten's score in pencil was inked-over, at the composer's request, by Imogen Holst, so that it could serve as a conducting score for the first performance of the music; see the note (1979) by Rosamund Strode on t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954
Extent:
1 volume (i + 181)

16. Add MS 60605

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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)

17. 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

18. 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)

19. 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)

20. 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)