IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 278907 accession number: MU.MS.781 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 updated: Tuesday 8 June 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: For soprano, alto and tenor soli, mixed chorus, boys' choir and orchestra. Title from spine. Holograph manuscript in pencil, dated at end: "Aldeburgh, March 15th 1949" Original pagination excludes pages of blank staves and pages with music crossed out: 1-37, 1-10. Former shelf mark: 52.D.38. Bound and conserved by H. Phillips of the British Museum Bindery in May 1961. Contents: f. 1. Introduction. "Shine out" / Anon -- f. 5. First movement. A. "The merry cuckoo" / Spenser -- f. 7. B. "Spring the sweet spring" / Nashe -- f. 9. C. "When as the rye" / Peele-Clare -- f. 11. D. "Now the bright morning star" / Milton -- f. 13. Second movt. A. "Welcome maids of honour" / Herrick -- f. 14. B. "Waters above" / Vaughan -- f. 15. C. "Out on the lawn I lie in bed" / Auden -- f. 17. Third movt. A. "When will my May come?" / Barnfield -- f. 20. B. "Fair and fair" / Peele -- f. 22. C. "Sound the flute!" / [Blake] -- f. 24. "London, to thee I do present" / Beaumont & Fletcher. title: Spring symphony [manuscript] : opus 44 / Benjamin Britten. 1949. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/278907 CATEGORIES ------ category: manuscript (music) DATING ------ creation date: 1949 - 1949 creation date earliest: 1949 creation date latest: 1949 CREATORS -------- maker: Britten, Benjamin DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 ms. score (32 leaves) ; 37 cm.