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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 68893-68901

1. Add MS 68893

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Add MS 68893
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Scope & Content:
'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. I. (ff. i+338). Act I. The prefatory material includes instructions in German for the copyist (f. 2v) and the engraver (f. 1), a list of sound effects, partly in score (ff. 1v-2), and a note on performance timings in 1931 (f. 2). The overture is supplied from the printed sco...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1906-1939]
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 68893-68895

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Add MS 68893-68895
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'THE WRECKERS'. Vols. I-III. Full score. Copy with autograph annotations. Evidently the work of a German copyist, with the German words in the same hand. The English words added in another hand, with frequent revisions by the composer, and occasional revisions, in a different hand again, in pencil. The copyist's musical text itself has minor additions and corrections in the hand of the composer, and many cuts are marked, and extensive revised passages, mostly in the hand of the composer, ins...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
3 items

3. Add MS 68893-68901

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Add MS 68893-68901
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'THE WRECKERS': opera by Ethel Smyth, (words, H. B. Brewster, English translation by the composer and Alma Strettell) ; circa 1906-1939. Copyist's full score, annotated libretti, and other performance material. With autograph annotations. Partly German. The opera, in three acts, was composed in 1903-1904 to Brewster's original French libretto as 'Les Naufrageurs', and first staged in Leipzig in 1906 in German as 'Strandrecht'. The English text was produced for the first English stage perform...
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Alma Strettell, afterwards Harrison; writer: Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE; composer: Henry Bennet Brewster, writer: Annotated full score, libretti, costume designs, etc., for opera 'The Wreckers' by Ethel Mary Smyth, libretto by Henry Bennet Brewster, translated by Alma Strettell: circa 1906-1939: Part...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
c 1906-1939
Extent:
13 items

4. Add MS 68894

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Add MS 68894
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'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. II. (ff. i+160) Act II. Six leaves (ff. 142-147) have been excised, and a new ending to the act supplied in autograph. A copy of this revised ending in the hand of Warwick Braithwaite and dated 1939 is at ff. 158-159v. The composer has pencilled 'revised Harrogate '38' at th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1906-1939]
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 68895

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Add MS 68895
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'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. III. (ff. 276) Act III. List of sound effects, partly in score (f. 1v), noted as 'OK. EMS', 1913 and 1931.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1906-1939]
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 68896

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Add MS 68896
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Scope & Content:
'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. IV. Vocal score; 1906 and later. Printed, with autograph and other manuscript annotations. The 1906 printed score, revised in manuscript, by blank paste-downs, and by the insertion of revised printed pages, to give essentially the musical text of the 1916 published vocal sco...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 68897 A

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Add MS 68897 A
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'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. V A (ff. i+52). Marked 'Stage Manager's Book' on cover label (f. i), and 'E. Smyth's copy' on title-page (f. 4). In addition to revisions of the text, annotations include stage directions and stage plans. Lists of stage properties required are at ff. 1-3.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1909-1989]
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 68897 A-B

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Add MS 68897 A-B
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'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. V A, B. Libretti; typewritten 1909, with annotations by the composer, 1909-1931 and later. Both 275 x 235mm.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1931
Extent:
2 items

9. Add MS 68897 B

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Add MS 68897 B
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Scope & Content:
'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. V B (ff. ii+153). Marked 'Stage Managers Scrip No. 1' in pencil on title-page (f. 1). Includes two copies of Act I. Annotations comprise revisions of text, and stage directions. Printed cast list from programme for the 1908 London concert performance pasted in at f. 2; scene...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1909-1989]
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 68898

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Add MS 68898
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Scope & Content:
'THE WRECKERS'. Vol. VI. Libretto; printed, Woking, 1909. Interleaved; annotated by the composer with revisions of the text, and stage directions. Marked 'Property of Ethel Smyth' on front cover, where there is also a note by her dated 1931 similar in effect to that in Add. 68897 B above. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 item