Thea Musgrave: 'Journey into Light', for soprano and chamber orchestra
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Work unpublished, but available on hire. (1.) 'Journey into light. Final sketches'. A continuous draft, on 23 leaves of paper, in pencil and inks, the verso of some leaves containing rougher sketches. (2.) Full score; 2004-2005. In ink. (3.) Notes for and drafts of the parts for the two natural ...
Except where otherwise stated: Documents comprising music notation are autograph manuscripts by the composer. Sketches (including diagrams and structural outlines) are on paper, in inks and pencil, the leaves foliated and dated. Composition drafts (often described by the composer as 'final sk...
Thea Musgrave: choral works: 'Song of the burn' and six others
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(1.) 'Song of the Burn, from Cantata for a Summer's Day'; 1965. Words by Maurice Lindsay. Score on transparencies. An arrangement for SSA of the song originally for SATB composed in 1954. (2.) 'Memento Creatoris', for SATB choir; 1967. Words by John Donne. Score on transparencies. (3.) 'Rorate Co...
'Echoes Through Time', for women's voices and chamber orchestra, libretto by Christa Cooper. The work includes a Prologue for tape and chamber orchestra and two Epilogues for tape only (the sixth movement of the main work, at fig. 107, is also entitled 'Epilogue'). The Epilogues also form a stand...
Thea Musgrave: 'Echoes Through Time'. Libretto drafts, research, and related correspondence
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Drafts of the libretto, interfiled with research notes and correspondence between Musgrave and the librettist Christa Cooper. The correspondence also includes letters from Musgrave to Agnes Scott College, the commissioning organisation. Chiefly annotated typescripts.
Thea Musgrave: 'Echoes Through Time'. Sketches and composition drafts
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Notes, sketches, and drafts ('final sketches'). These include substantial material relating to the music for tape, in the Prologue and tape-only Epilogues.
(1.) Libretto; 1988. Typescript. (2.) Full score; May 1989. In ink. Foliated by the composer. Includes the Prologue (4 leaves, foliated A–D), but not the tape-only Epilogues.