Billy Budd | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:Facsimiles

Physical Description:5 items of music (56, 9, 140, 13, 22 pages in various pagings)

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:32308391

Notes:

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 -- Composition 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

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Reproduction Notes:

Microfilm, Aldeburgh, Britten-Pears Library, 1979, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm