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21. Add MS 60600

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: '[The] Beggar's Opera', op. 43
Scope & Content:
Ballad-opera with words by John Gay and music realized from the original airs by Benjamin Britten. Full score, mostly in pencil, mostly autograph (apart from ff. 124-128v and ff. 139-140v which are in black ink, in the hand of Arthur Oldham, Britten's pupil and assistant). Adhered to the inside...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948-1979
Extent:
1 volume (i + 189 folios)

22. 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)

23. Add MS 60596

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Friday Afternoons', op. 7
Scope & Content:
Title-page (f. i): 'Friday Afternoons / A Dozen School Songs', with Britten's signature. Autograph music manuscript. The volume contains the following songs (numbered in red crayon), scored mainly for voice and piano: I. 'Be-gone dull care!' (f. 1-1v). Words anonymous. Scored in pencil, initi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1935
Extent:
1 volume (i + 32 folios)

24. Add MS 60599

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Serenade' for tenor, horn and strings, op. 31
Scope & Content:
Short score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with some revision of song titles in red crayon. The 'Prologue' and 'Epilogue' are not included. Title page (f. 1): 'Serenade', in red crayon, written across a draft of the beginning (struck-through) of 'Dirge' (cf. f. 9). The draft continues ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 volume (15 folios)

25. Add MS 60609-60610

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66
Scope & Content:
A non-liturgical setting of the requiem mass, for soprano, tenor, and baritone solos, chorus, orchestra, chamber orchestra, boys' choir and organ. Texts: the Missa pro Defunctis (Latin), and poems by Wilfred Owen. Dedicated to Roger Burney, Piers Dunkerley, David Gill and Michael Halliday. In t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961-1979
Extent:
2 volumes

26. 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)

27. 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)

28. Add MS 60609

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, signed by Britten (f. 2) and dated by him: 'Aldeburgh Dec. 20th 1961' (f. 68). The volume comprises the complete composition, together with additional discarded draft material, as follows: half title (f. 1); epigraph, drawn from Wilfred Owen (f. 1v); title...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961-1979
Extent:
1 volume (102 folios)

29. Add MS 60613

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Curlew River', op. 71 (full score)
Scope & Content:
A partially autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with pasted-down additions in black ink for voice and chorus. Dated, in Britten's hand: 'Score finished / Maundy Thursday / March 1964' (f. 396). For tenor, two baritones, treble and bass voices, with the following 'Instrumentalists' indicated...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
1 volume (398 folios)

30. Add MS 60594

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Phantasy', op. 2 (score)
Scope & Content:
Score, for oboe, violin, viola, violoncello. Autograph music manuscript, in ink, with hinged and pasted-down corrections. Dated 'Sept.-Oct. 1932' (f. 1), and signed by Britten on ff. 1 and 33v. f. 34 is a superceded folio containing 30 bars from the middle of the work.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)