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Add MS 60600
- Record Id:
- 040-001991538
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001991529
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000393.0x0000e6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100176880489.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60600
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: '[The] Beggar's Opera', op. 43
- Scope & Content:
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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 front cover of the volume, a single sheet of 'Special Notes' (f. i, notes numbered i-v) by Rosamund Strode (Aldeburgh, May 1979). The notes refer to: previous page numbering of the manuscript (still evident); to differences between the manuscript and the published score in the numbering of songs; and to missing folios. British Library foliation of the volume (upper right corner of each recto) is continuous and does not take into account the missing folios referred to in the 'Special Notes'.
Missing folios:
- 3 folios are missing following f. 92v comprising Song 30 ('When you censure the age') and the opening 24 bars of Song 31 ('Is then his fate decreed, Sir?'). There is a note in pencil to this effect at the head of f. 93.
- 2 folios (referred to by Strode as 'three sides') are missing following f. 150 comprising Song 44 ('A curse attends a woman's love').
The volume comprises:
- Title page (f. 1).
- 'Overture' (ff. 2-14v), in blue ink.
- Act I (ff. 15-84v).
- Act II (ff. 85-115).
- Act III (ff. 116-189v).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001991529
040-001991538 - Is part of:
- Add MS 60593-60626 : Britten Manuscripts: Musical compositions of Benjamin Britten
Add MS 60600 : Benjamin Britten: '[The] Beggar's Opera', op. 43 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001991529[0007]/040-001991538
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 60593-60626
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (i + 189 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100176880489.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1948
- End Date:
- 1979
- Date Range:
- 1948-1979
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Folio dimensions: 365 x 265 mm. Brown buckram binding. Not bound by the British Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_60600
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)