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31. Add MS 60610

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (full score)
Scope & Content:
Partially autograph music manuscript, in pencil and in black ink, including the hands of two copyists (Imogen Holst and Rosamund Strode) - see Philip Reed, in Mervyn Cooke, Britten: 'War Requiem' (1996), p. 46. Dated (Holst's hand): 'Aldeburgh, December 20th 1961' (f. 137), and annotated (in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961
Extent:
1 volume (137 folios)

32. 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)

33. 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)

34. Add MS 60603

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Add MS 60603
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)