- Additional Authors
- Description
- 3 items of ms. music (210, 23, 241 p. in various pagings)
- Uniform Title
- Midsummer night's dream (Sketches)
- Alternative Title
- Midsummer night's dream (Sketches)
- Subjects
- Note
- Holograph composition sketch (condensed score) with revisions and discarded sketches. (Britten-Pears-Library, Aldeburgh).
- Title taken from page added by Britten-Pears Library.
- For solo voices and orchestra including 2 harps and harpsichord or celesta. Additionally a stage band includes sopranino recorders and percussion.
- For detailed information on discarded sketches see frame 229.
- Libretto by the composer and Peter Pears adapted from Shakespeare's play.
- Film no. B 7.
- Reproduction (note)
- Contents
- Composition sketch (condensed score) -- Revision of Snug's aria -- Fragmentary sketches and phrases -- Vocal score amendment for end of concert version of Bottom's Dream (Act III) -- Adjustments to horn parts -- Adjustments for harp.
- Call Number
- *ZBT-579 no. 1
- OCLC
- NYPG95-C162
- Author
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
- Title
A midsummer night's dream [microform], op. 64 : an opera in three acts / Benjamin Britten.
- Imprint
1960 -1966.
- Reproduction
Microfilm. Aldeburgh : Britten-Pears Library, 1979, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Pears, Peter, 1910-1986.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream.
Britten-Pears Library. Manuscript.
Toscanini Memorial Archives.
- Research Call Number
*ZBT-579 no. 1