Research Catalog
Billy Budd
- Title
- Billy Budd [microform] / B[enjamin] B[ritten]
- Author
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
- Publication
- 1951-1960.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 5 items of ms. music (56, 9, 140, 13, 22 p. in various pagings)
- Subject
- 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.
- Connect to:
- 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