Thea Musgrave: 'Beauty and the beast'. Scenario and draft for Act 1
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(1.) Ballet scenario; 1968. 'Working Draft'. Typescript with handwritten annotations. With information on characters and scenes, followed by a detailed synopsis of Act I only, indicating correspondence to the numbers in the score. (2.) Composition draft for Act I; 1969?. In ink with some pencil, ...
Thea Musgrave: 'Beauty and the beast'. Draft for Act 2
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(1.) Composition draft for Act II; 1968? In ink and pencil, in short score. The leaves are foliated in separate sequences for each new number in the ballet. (2.) A slightly later composition draft for an extract from No.32 (part of Act II). Presented by Thea Musgrave to Ian Sneddon. 3 folios.
Thea Musgrave: 'Beauty and the beast'. Cuts and revisions
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(1.) List of cuts and revisions, using rehearsal figures as reference-points. (2.) Revised passages showing the lines for the flute, 1st clarinet, and bassoon at figures 124, 125, 126, and 127 (these revisions not mentioned in the list above). (3.) Superseded versions of passages which have been ...
Full score; 'London. April 1968–May 1969'. On transparencies except where otherwise stated, bearing a copyright date of 1968 except where otherwise stated. As a result of cuts, there are gaps in the composer's foliation.
Thea Musgrave: 'Beauty and the beast'. Full score, Act 1, scene 2-4
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Full score; 'London. April 1968–May 1969'. On transparencies except where otherwise stated, bearing a copyright date of 1968 except where otherwise stated. As a result of cuts, there are gaps in the composer's foliation.
Thea Musgrave: 'Beauty and the beast'. Full score, Act 2, scene 3-4 and fragment of Act 1
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(1.) Act II Scenes iii–iv (foliated 355–531). (2.) Full score of the first four bars of Act I, bearing a copyright date of 1969, and its envelope, 'M.S p1', postmarked 'Notting Hill 26 Oct 70' and sent by recorded delivery to Musgrave.
Thea Musgrave: 'Beauty and the beast'. Articles and correspondence
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(1.) Two articles about the world première ( Sadler's Wells, London, conducted by Kenneth Alwyn, with choreography by Peter Darrell, design by Peter Minshall, and lighting by Charles Bristow): 'Beauty and the beast'. Dance and dancers , January 1970, pp. 19-26, 49-50. Printed periodical isssue. ...