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21. MS Mus. 1778/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/2/3
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: 'Endless Parade', sketch material
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-7. Material relating to Endless Parade, for trumpet, strings, and vibraphone. Commissioned by and dedicated to Paul Sacher; premiered 1987, Zürich, by Collegium Musicum and Sacher. Retrospectively signed and titled by the composer. Includes: f. 1: title page f. 2: dedication to Paul Sache...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1986-1987
Extent:
1 volume (7 folios)

22. MS Mus. 1778/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/1/2
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: 'Mask of Orpheus Sketches by P.Z.' [Peter Zinovieff], and 'The Catch of London Bridge'
Scope & Content:
Assorted sketches on various sizes and types of paper, found in a paper folder (f. i) titled 'Mask of Orpheus / Sketches by P.Z.' [i.e. Peter Zinovieff]. Containing: ff. 1-16. Form scheme for Act 3. ff. 17-27. Charts by Peter Zinovieff; additional material including dramatis personae sheet and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1970s
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

23. MS Mus. 1778/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/4/1
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Miscellaneous and unidentified material, volume 1
Scope & Content:
Various sketches, typescripts and notes, mostly provisionally identified or unidentified. (1). ff.1-17. Material possibly relating to ‘Earth Dances’ (1985-6): 10 folios of assorted sketches and jottings on 12-stave manuscript paper; 7 further folios of numerical and rhythmic workings. (2). f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1970-1989
Extent:
1 volume (98 folios)

24. MS Mus. 1778/4/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/4/4
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Music by other composers
Scope & Content:
Unpublished scores of music by other composers: (1). ff. 1-2. Alan Cohen, ‘Blues / A Birthday Piece for Cor’. Dated '6/5/56'. Short piano piece dedicated to Cornelius Cardew. (2). ff. 3-4. Peter Maxwell Davies, ‘Two 14th cent. Motets on St Edmund’. 3- and 4-part motet ‘Deus tuorum militum’, ne...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1955-1969
Extent:
1 volume (8 folios)

25. MS Mus. 1778/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/2/4
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Sketch material for 'Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments'; 'Tragoedia'; 'Verses'; 'Nenia: The Death of Orpheus'
Scope & Content:
Assorted musical material for the four works detailed below. (1). ff 1-2. 'Entr’actes and Sappho Fragments', for soprano and instruments, 1964. Premiered by the Virtuoso Ensemble of London and John Carewe). f. 1: neatly copied formal plan for the work on a single A4 leaf, used to illustrate a ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964-1970
Extent:
1 volume (11 folios)

26. MS Mus. 1778/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/1/5
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Yan Tan Tethera and Monodrama, sketch material
Scope & Content:
Sketches relating to: 'Yan Tan Tethera', a one act 'mechanical pastorale' with text by Tony Harrison. Completed 1984, premiered 1986 by the London Sinfonietta; and 'Monodrama', text by Stephen Pruslin, premiered 1967 by the Pierrot Players. The work was subsequently withdrawn by the composer. (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1967-1984
Extent:
1 volume (15 folios)

27. MS Mus. 1778/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/1/3
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Sketch Material for Gawain, volume 1
Scope & Content:
Box containing 5 notebooks and 2 annotated libretti. (1). ff. 1-37. Two beige manuscript notebooks of sketch material, largely melodic and relating to the beginning of Act 1, as well as to three other works: ff.** relates to the abandoned chamber arrangement of Deowa (commenced late 1987) ff.**...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1987-1989
Extent:
1 volume (267 folios)

28. MS Mus. 1778/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/1/6
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Music for the theatre ('Lorca'; 'Hamlet'; 'Bow Down'; 'Volpone'; 'The Trojan War Will Not Take Place')
Scope & Content:
Assorted material relating to music for various theatre works (all except 'Lorca' were written while Birtwistle was employed by the National Theatre); 54 folios in total. (1). ff. 1-6. Drafts for incidental music to 'Lorca', a play by John Calder and Bettina Jonic, performed at the Edinburgh Fe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1966-1983
Extent:
1 volume (74 folios)

29. MS Mus. 1778/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1778/5/1
Title:
Harrison Birtwistle: Correspondence and papers
Scope & Content:
Assorted letters and papers, mainly of professional content, dating from the 1960s to the late 1980s. 72 individual items, arranged in chronological order. These include 58 letters, all addressed to Birtwistle, unless otherwise stated. From: Nigel Abercrombie; Arts Council of Great Britain; Laur...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1990
Extent:

1 volume