Britten Thematic Catalogue

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BTC840 HADRIAN'S WALL

Radio score
Period of composition: 12 - 16 Nov 1937
Genre: Incidental music
Text: W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
Performing forces:

Male v, chorus ([SA]TB) - perc - str qt

The scoring is deduced from Britten's annotated typescript.

Notes

The only music manuscript to survive is the original singer's handwritten copy of 'Roman wall blues'. The typescript also survives, indicating that the score contained about fifteen numbers including a choral setting of Purcell's Fairest isle.

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