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MS Mus. 1801/4/15
- Record Id:
- 040-001947634
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001947536
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x00008c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1801/4/15
- Title:
- Sir Lennox Berkeley: 'Signs in the Dark', Op. 69
- Scope & Content:
-
ff. 1-9. Four songs for mixed voices and strings (sketches and drafts). Words: Laurie Lee.
- (1). Incomplete draft full score, in pencil (pp. 1-16, 16B, 17) of the first three settings:
['Day of These Days'], beginning 'Such a morning it is', pp. 1-8 (complete). ['Twelfth Night'], beginning 'No night could be darker than this', pp. 9-16 followed by revised ending on p. 16B. ['The Three Winds'] beginning 'The hard blue winds', p. 17 (fragment).
- (2). The fourth setting, 'Poem for Easter', pp. 37-43, and pp. 31-33:
ff. 10-18. Autograph score in black ink (and pencil), pp. 37-43. Dated on p. 43: 'Finished July 1967 / Score written at Clavier' [Belgium], August 1967'. Pasted-down corrections: ff. 11, 13-15, 17.
ff. 19-20. Pencil draft fragment, pp. 31-33, comprising a draft of the last three pages. Dated on p. 33: 'Finished at Mouton / July 31st 1967'.First performance: Stroud, Parish Church of St Lawrence, 22 October 1967. The Festival Choir and Orchestra, cond. Eric Sanders.
First London performance: Royal Albert Hall, 27 August 1968. The BBC Chorus and BBC Northern Singers, and the strings of the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, cond. Lennox Berkeley.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001947536
036-001947615
037-001947633
040-001947634 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1801 : Sir Lennox Berkeley: Music Manuscripts
MS Mus. 1801/4 : Sir Lennox Berkeley: Voices with Orchestra or Instrumental Ensemble
MS Mus. 1801/4/15-16 : Sir Lennox Berkeley: Signs in the dark, op. 69. Magnificat, Op. 71
MS Mus. 1801/4/15 : Sir Lennox Berkeley: 'Signs in the Dark', Op. 69 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001947536[0004]/036-001947615[0012]/037-001947633[0001]/040-001947634
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1801
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
20 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1967
- End Date:
- 1967
- Date Range:
- 1967
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 24-stave paper, 355 x 252 mm and 340 x 270 mm.
- Former Internal References:
- Music Loan 101.79
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Berkeley, Michael Fitzhardinge, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, composer, b 1948
Lee, Laurence Edward Alan, author and poet, 1914-1997,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108909604