Sir Jack Allan Westrup: 'Music to Aeschylus' "Oresteia" (Trevelyan's translation), composed for the performance by the Balliol Players'

Single Item

MS. Mus. c. 624

Request
this

Order this material to a Weston Library reading room

This material can be requested via the online system, where you can monitor the progress of your order.

Help

Music to Aeschylus' Oresteia by Sir Jack Allan Westrup. Revised version, 1924. Autograph vocal score in ink for unison chorus with piano accompaniment.

The original version was performed June-July 1923 at various venues. The revised version, with additional numbers, was performed June-July 1924 at various venues. At the first Oxford performance of 1924, the accompaniment also included flute, oboe and bassoon, but all the other performances were with piano only.

Programmes (from both 1923 and 1924) and press reviews are bound or pasted in, and details of the casts and performance venues are on pp. vii-viii.

Dates

Creation: 1924

Extent

76 pages

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark, e.g. MS. Mus. c. 624, fols. 1-2].

Please see our help page for further guidance on citing archives and manuscripts.

Shelfmark:

MS. Mus. c. 624

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 16077

Additional Description

Abstract

Autograph vocal score of music to Aeschylus' Oresteia by Sir Jack Allan Westrup, 1924.

Biographical / Historical

Sir Jack Allan Westrup (1904-75) was a musicologist and conductor. See Grove Music Online for further details.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Given by Lady Westrup through Albi Rosenthal. Intended to arrive in 1976 (with Westrup's Monteverdi editions, MSS. Mus. c. 419-423), but not handed over by Rosenthal until 2004.