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Add MS 60609
- Record Id:
- 040-001991550
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001991529
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000393.0x0000ef
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100176882066.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60609
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (short score)
- Scope & Content:
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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 page, with Britten's signature, including reference to the first performance at the Festival to celebrate the Consecration of St Michael's Cathedral Coventry ([30] May 1962), textual sources, voices and instrumentation, and dedicatees (f. 2);
- numbered list of six movements by title (f. 2v);
- '1 Requiem aeternam' (ff. 3-10);
- '2 Dies irae' (ff. 11-30);
- '3 Offertorium' (ff. 31-40v);
- '4 Sanctus' (ff. 41-48);
- '5 Agnus Dei' (ff. 49-50v);
- '6 Libera me' (ff. 51-68);
- discarded draft fragments mainly untitled (ff. 69-101), several of which are specified in f. 102;
- 'Sketch pages for Exhibition at Imperial war Museum' - a list (typescript) of folios borrowed for exhibition (20 September 1974) and returned 7 July 1975 (f. 102).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001991529
036-001991549
040-001991550 - Is part of:
- Add MS 60593-60626 : Britten Manuscripts: Musical compositions of Benjamin Britten
Add MS 60609-60610 : Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66
Add MS 60609 : Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (short score) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001991529[0011]/036-001991549[0001]/040-001991550
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 60593-60626
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (102 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100176882066.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1961
- End Date:
- 1979
- Date Range:
- 1961-1979
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Folio dimensions: 365 x 270 mm.
- 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_60609
- Publications:
- The discarded draft fragments (ff. 69-101) are considerd by Philip Reed, in Mervyn Cooke, Britten: 'War Requiem' (1996), pp. 20-48, passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)