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601. Add MS 60621

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: Music for the documentary film Night Mail (1936), directed by Harry Watt and Basil Wright
Scope & Content:
Night Mail is a short documentary film produced by the General Post Office (G.P.O.) Film Unit about the London, Midland and Scottish Railway mail train making its journey north, from London to Scotland. Britten's contribution included the title music and the music for the end sequence, which was...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)

602. Add MS 60622

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: Incidental music for The Ascent of F6
Scope & Content:
Incidental music for The Ascent of F6, a stage play by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. Signed by Britten on ff 1, 1v, 3, and 47. The volume is not dated. Full autograph score, in ink (with some additions in pencil and red crayon), for voices (SATB), percussion, ukulele, and two pianos, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1937]
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

603. Add MS 60623

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: Incidental music for The Dark Tower
Scope & Content:
Incidental music for the radio play The Dark Tower by Louis MacNeice. Signed by Britten on the title page (f. 1). The manuscript is not dated. Full score, autograph, in pencil (with additions in red crayon) for trumpet in C, percussion and strings, as follows: front cover with title, exhibitin...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1945]
Extent:
1 volume (iii + 13 folios)

604. Add MS 60624

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: Waltzes for piano
Scope & Content:
Ten waltzes for piano, followed by a 'Waltz Duet' and a 'Petite Valse'. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil (except for f. 1 and the first stave of f. 1v, which are in ink). front cover (dated 'March 1925') entitled: 'Walztes [sic] / composed / by / Edward Benjamin Britten / Opus 3 / 1925 / de...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1925
Extent:
1 notebook (ii + 18 folios)

605. Add MS 60625

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Violin Sonata in D Major'
Scope & Content:
For violin and piano, in score. Autograph music manuscript, in ink and in pencil. Dated on the front cover: 'Begun March 1925'. The date on which the Sonata was finished is recorded on f. 13v and f. 17: 'April 6th 1925'. With Britten's (youthful) signature ('E B Britten') accompanying each date...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1925
Extent:
1 notebook (ii + 17 folios)

606. Add MS 60626

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: Purcell realisations
Scope & Content:
Three realisations of music by Henry Purcell. None of the manuscripts is dated. 1. Henry Purcell, 'The Golden Sonata' (Z 810), realised for two violins, cello and piano. Entitled 'Sonata IX', scored in pencil with Britten's signature on f. 1 (ff. 1-7v). First performance: 21 November 1945, Wi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1943-1945]
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

607. Add MS 60629

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Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Illuminated Psalter with a Calendar, Canticles and Litanies for the use of nuns, as suggested by the petition (f. 169r) and a collect (f. 170r) for ‘nos famulas tuas’. The inclusion of a litany of St Clara, canonised in 1255, dates it to the second half of the 13th century. Originally, decorat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

608. Add MS 61814 A

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Gloriana'. Act I
Scope & Content:
Music for Act I of Britten's opera Gloriana. The music and words of Essex's Second Lute Song (ff. 62-63v) are entirely in Britten's hand.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1953
Extent:

1 volume (77 folios)

609. Add MS 61814 B

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Gloriana'. Revisions to Acts I and III
Scope & Content:
Full score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil. The passages are Act I: 10 bars up to letter V, 7 bars to letter X; Act III: 6 bars to letter T.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1966
Extent:
1 volume (6 folios)

610. Add MS 61815

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Gloriana'. Act II
Scope & Content:
Music for Act II of Britten's opera Gloriana, in full score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1953
Extent:
1 volume (84 folios)

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