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Add MS 60615
- Record Id:
- 040-001991558
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001991529
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000393.0x0000f5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100176882838.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60615
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (short score)
- Scope & Content:
-
Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, including discarded passages. Dated by Britten: 'November 10th 1968' (f. 20v).
- Title page (f. 1): 'Kinderkreuzzug 1939 (Brecht) / For Boy's [sic] voices (solo & chorus) / 2 pianos & percussion / (with electric organ to support voices)';
- list of voice parts (f. 1v);
- setting in German (ff. 2-20v);
- discarded draft passages (ff. 21-26v), identified in pencil at the foot of folios by Britten-Pears Library;
- title page: 'Voice part' (f. 27);
- voice parts set in English (ff. 28-31v);
- inserted verse, in English, with date '20 Nov. 68' at the head of the folio (f. 32);
- continuation of voice parts set in English (ff. 33-36).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001991529
036-001991557
040-001991558 - Is part of:
- Add MS 60593-60626 : Britten Manuscripts: Musical compositions of Benjamin Britten
Add MS 60615-60616 : Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82
Add MS 60615 : Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (short score) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001991529[0015]/036-001991557[0001]/040-001991558
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 60593-60626
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (36 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100176882838.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
German - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1968
- End Date:
- 1968
- Date Range:
- 1968
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Folio dimensions: 380 x 280 mm, except f. 11 (230 x 270 mm) and f. 14 (a small hinged addition to f. 13v).
- Information About Copies:
-
Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_60615
- Publications:
- Benjamin Britten, Children's Crusade (Kinderkreuzzug) Op. 82 (London: Faber & Faber, 1973). A limited facsimile edition of the short score, including twelve colour illustrations from a series of paintings based on the work by Sidney Nolan.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)