Benjamin Britten

The opera from Lets make an Opera. An Entertainment for Young People Instrumentation : soloists, choir, string quartet, piano (4-händig) and percussion Version : vocal/piano score Description : This opera is the final section of the entertainment for young people called Lets Make an Opera. The first section of this is in the form of a play and illustrates the preparation and rehearsal of an opera.Professionals or very gifted amateurs are needed to play the grown-up parts and also the part of Juliet (provided, of course, that she can look convincingly youthful). It is essential that real children should play the children’s parts. The accompaniment is for solo string quartet, piano-duet (four hands on one piano) and percussion (one player can manage). The string parts are not very easy. The songs Nos. I, IX, XIV and XVII are to be sung by the whole audience under the direction of the conductor. They must, of course, be rehearsed beforehand. Allowance is made for such rehearsal in Part One of Lets Make an Opera.Nombre de pages : 88 Langue : English Format : New Edition portrait

Quartet in one movement Edition : study score Instrumentation : oboe, violin, viola and cello Date of Composition: 1932 Duration : 15' Number of Pages : 22 Series : Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 10

Reflections on a Song by Dowland Studienpartitur - STP - viola and string orchestra composer: Britten, Benjamin Série: Hawkes Pocket Scores (HPS 904)

In preparing for publication the 1935 orchestral version of Britten's Te Deum in C it became clear that there were a number of discrepancies between the manuscript and the original 193 vocal score. Some of these were minor:different articulation and dynamic markings something Britten was later very fussy about but perhaps left unchanged on proof because of his relative inexperience at this stage of his career with the processes of musicpublishing. Others were more important: wrong pedal notes for example which Britten failed to notice on proof and which have been perpetuated in performances and recordings for nearly seventy years. These have been corrected inthe new edition of the vocal score and in the orchestral score (Britten clearly used the published vocal score to prepare his orchestral version). The two versions have been made consistent in other details - rehearsal cues andbar numbers for example - since Britten intended choristers to use the vocal score to perform the orchestral version. This would have been an easy task for these is little discrepancy in essential details between versions (arare departure occurs in bars 53 to 56 where the works 'Lord God of Sabaoth' are unaccompanied in the orchestral version but doubled by Organ in the original). Sustained Organ chords are often filled out with arpeggiated stringwriting while the spacing of chords is frequently much wider in the string version with melodies transposed into different octaves. Although harmony in both versions is identical voice leading is sometimes altered in the latterto make it better suited to the idioms of the instruments concerned.So although in essence the two versions are the same the soundworld explored in each is quite distinct. Britten's orchestral version should neither beviewed as an occasional piece nor considered solely a liturgical work like many of his choral pieces from the 1930s and 1940s it is equally at home in church and concert hall.

Instrumentation : high voice and guitar Contenu : The Big Chariot - The Old Lute - The Autumn Wind - The Herd-Boy - Depression - Dance Song Nombre de pages : 16 Langue : English Format : New Edition portrait

The Ship Of Rio by Benjamin Britten for 2-part boys' or women's voices and piano from Three Two-part Songs.

This collection includes all 61 of Benjamin Britten's arrangements of folk songs combining the contents of the seven published books in editions for High and Low Voice. Included are the well-loved traditional tunes Bonny At Morn The Ash Grove The Salley Gardens Greensleeves The Holly And The Ivy and many more. Some of the songs featured in this volume for Medium/Low Voice have never before been transposed. The songs of Volume 6 for Voice and Guitar have been transcribed for Voice and Piano for this edition.