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.