Thea Musgrave: 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge', an opera for radio. Draft scripts
Scope & Content:
Drafts of the script, some of them including reference to the tape and live sound-effects; 1981. In ink, and typescript. With a later draft 'corrected July 1984'. Also present is a leaf of research on 'American usage of the 1860s' and a photocopy of the Bierce short story on which the opera is ba...
Thea Musgrave: 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge', an opera for radio. Incomplete vocal score and complete full score
Scope & Content:
(1.) 'Part of vocal score, unrevised'. In ink. Piano reduction of the opening of the piece (up to the end of the 2nd bar of fig. 44), in which the tape line is largely empty, but the piano reduction and vocal lines are largely present. (2.) Full score; 1981.
Thea Musgrave: 'Harriet, the Woman Called Moses', opera. Revisions and early vocal score fragment
Scope & Content:
(1.) Vocal score of early version of Act I prelude; 1982. (2.) Lists and annotated photocopies indicating revisions to the full score and vocal score after the world première; July 1985-January 1986. (3.) Lists and revised pages relating to revisions to the vocal score after the world première; 1...
Thea Musgrave: 'Harriet, the Woman Called Moses', opera. Materials relating to world première production
Scope & Content:
(1.) Correspondence with Robert Claytor, dedicatee of the opera and director of the Norfolk Southern railway company, the principal sponsor of the world première production. (2.) Drawings of set designs by Jeff Beecroft. Photocopies. (3.) Educational materials produced at the time of the world pr...