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Add MS 60610
- Record Id:
- 040-001991551
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001991529
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000393.0x0000f0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100176882227.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60610
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (full score)
- Scope & Content:
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Partially autograph music manuscript, in pencil and in black ink, including the hands of two copyists (Imogen Holst and Rosamund Strode) - see Philip Reed, in Mervyn Cooke, Britten: 'War Requiem' (1996), p. 46.
Dated (Holst's hand): 'Aldeburgh, December 20th 1961' (f. 137), and annotated (in the same hand) with instructions to the copyist on ff. 101, 105, 120, 130.
- Title page 'Requiem aeternam', including brief note by Britten on the harp (f. 1).
- 1. 'Requiem aeternam' (ff. 2-13).
- 2. 'Dies irae' (ff. 14-52v).
- 3. 'Offertorium' (ff. 53-76).
- Title page 'Sanctus and Agnus Dei' (f. 77).
- 4. 'Sanctus' (ff. 78-94v).
- 5. 'Agnus Dei' (ff. 95-100).
- 6. 'Libera me' (ff. 101-137).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001991529
036-001991549
040-001991551 - 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 60610 : Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (full score) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001991529[0011]/036-001991549[0002]/040-001991551
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 60593-60626
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (137 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100176882227.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1961
- End Date:
- 1961
- Date Range:
- 1961
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Not British Library binding. Folio dimensions: 545 x 340 mm. With smaller pasted-down ff. 97. 98, 131, 132, 135, and 136. There are brown 'splash' stains on f. 15-15v.
- 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_60610
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)