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Add MS 60623
- Record Id:
- 040-001991566
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001991529
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000393.0x0000fd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100176883199.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60623
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: Incidental music for The Dark Tower
- Scope & Content:
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Incidental music for the radio play The Dark Tower by Louis MacNeice. Signed by Britten on the title page (f. 1). The manuscript is not dated.
Full score, autograph, in pencil (with additions in red crayon) for trumpet in C, percussion and strings, as follows:
- front cover with title, exhibiting various annotations indicating prior BBC Music Library custody (f. i, with f. ii hinged);
- title page, signed (f. 1);
- score, with 16 divisions indicated by Roman numerals in red crayon (ff. 2-12);
- on f. 13v and f. iii are brief notes recording previous borrowings from the BBC Music Library.
First performance: 21 January 1946, BBC Home Service.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001991529
040-001991566 - Is part of:
- Add MS 60593-60626 : Britten Manuscripts: Musical compositions of Benjamin Britten
Add MS 60623 : Benjamin Britten: Incidental music for The Dark Tower - Hierarchy:
- 032-001991529[0022]/040-001991566
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 60593-60626
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (iii + 13 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100176883199.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1945
- End Date:
- 1945
- Date Range:
- [1945]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Folio dimensions: 365 x 270 mm, except f. ii (25 x 70 mm) which is hinged and attached to f. i). Volume originally held by the BBC Music Library, with their ownership stamps on ff. i, 2, 6, 8v, and 12.
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_60623
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)