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Handwritten piano reduction of the score by Frank Martin, used by Kenneth MacMillan for his ballet The Burrow. It includes the names of dancers and details of the action of the ballet. Handwritten on music manuscript paper in pen and ink with some pencil markings visible. It is titled on the first page Concerto for 7 Wind Instruments Frank Martin 1949, and signed on the final page Piano Reduction by John Lanchbery. Some of the pages have R.C.I Printed in England upside down in top right corner

Printed piano reduction music score for Orpheus by Igor Stravinsky, published by Boosey and Hawkes, copyright 1948, printed in England. Piano reduction by Leopold Spinner. The accompanying brown paper bag has the name, address, telephone and telegram details for Boosey and Hawkes (Retail) Limited printed on one side with Mr MacMillan via Iris Law Thursday A.M. or P.M? handwritten on the reverse. With sellotape

Piano vocal score for Die 7 Todsunden der Kleinburger (The Seven Deadly Sins) by Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht, published by Edition Schott, printed in Germany. The front cover has an image of the two Annas, in black and white with blue highlight, the back cover has an image of the house. With some annotations by Kenneth MacMillan on the contents page, in black felt pen. There is a typed interdepartmental memo slipped into the volume at page 115 which gives the names of the Seven Deadly Sins Singers

Kenneth MacMillan received scores and audio cassettes from composers, some known to him, keen to collaborate with him. The music in this file was not used by Kenneth MacMillan

Printed music score for Passacaglia Variations on a Ground for unaccompanied Violin by Richard Tony Arnell, with handwritten dedication on cover, Happy Christmas! to Ken from Tony Dec '60, published and copyright by Hinrichsen Edition Ltd., London and New York, 1960

This file contains two versions of the score by Richard Rodney Bennett for Aubade, and an invoice:
1.Aubade for Orchestra, a printed reproduction of the composer's original manuscript. Published and copyright by Universal Edition (London) Ltd., London, 1965, ring bound, ii + 28 pages and card covers, 24 cms x 17.4 x .5;

2. Aubade, a printed reproduction of a piano reduction by Ivana Themmen, with dedication of Kenneth MacMillan on the cover and above the title on the first page. Printed by King Brand, New York, n.d. Ring bound, 10 pages with card covers, size 32 cms x 25 x .8
3. Photocopy of an invoice from Ivana Themmen to Kenneth MacMillan for preparing the Piano Reduction, n.d.

One handwritten letter from Anthony Brenner to Kenneth MacMillan, 10.3.1983, enclosing a tape of a recording of his Harp Concerto, recorded in 1981

Printed orchestral suite for a ballet in one act with music by Jacques Casterede and plot by Jerome le Maitre, La Mythomane or La femme et sa fable, published and copyright by Editions Rideau Rouge, 1967

Printed full score for Geranos by Brian Elias, in 1985. Published and copyright by J & W Chester/Edition Wilhem Hansen London Ltd, 1988, with a composer's note and brief biography, details of scoring and of dedication and first performance

Autograph music manuscript by Michael Finnissy, Canti d'amore (ballet), for 9 players, with details of instrumentation, duration and notes on performance