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Billy Budd

Title
Billy Budd [microform] / B[enjamin] B[ritten]
Author
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Publication
1951-1960.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Crozier, Eric
  • Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.
  • Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
  • Britten-Pears Library. Manuscript
  • Toscanini Memorial Archives
Description
5 items of ms. music (56, 9, 140, 13, 22 p. in various pagings)
Subject
  • Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 > Manuscripts > Facsimiles
  • Operas > Scores
  • Musical sketches
Note
  • Holograph composition sketch (condensed score), revisions, and discarded sketches, signed (Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh).
  • For soloists, chorus and orchestra including alto saxophone and on-stage drums.
  • For details on discarded sketches and revisions see frames 4, 69, and 236.
  • Revisions refer to revised edition of 1960.
  • Includes: Composition sketch, Act I -- Revisions to Act I -- Compostion sketch, Acts II-IV -- Fragmentary discarded sketches -- (Other) discarded sketches.
  • Libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Hermann Melville.
  • Film no. X 3.
Reproduction (note)
  • Microfilm.
Call Number
*ZBT-584
OCLC
NYPG95-C295
Author
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Title
Billy Budd [microform] / B[enjamin] B[ritten]
Imprint
1951-1960.
Reproduction
Microfilm. Aldeburgh : Britten-Pears Library, 1979, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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Added Author
Crozier, Eric.
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd.
Britten-Pears Library. Manuscript.
Toscanini Memorial Archives.
Research Call Number
*ZBT-584
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