829BTC850850BBM/world_of_the_spiritThe world of the spiritRadio music

The score was published in 2001 and subtitled 'For soloists, speaker(s), chorus and orchestra'.

1Incidental music

In correspondence with the BBC Britten refers to The world of the spirit as an 'Oratorio'.

Apr 193899724 May 1938998Sop, contr, ten, bass, 1 (or 2) spkr(s), SATB - 2 fl (II=picc), 2 ob, 2 cl in B flat and A, 2 bn - 4 hn, 2 tpt in C, 3 trbn, tuba - timp, perc (cymb, susp cymb, gong, sd, bd, tamb) - harp, org - strCompiled by R. Ellis Roberts. See individual movements.42.0

With full texts

Written for a Whitsun programme of words and music, the second special feature devised by Ellis Roberts for which Britten composed a large-scale choral and orchestral score. See also The company of heaven (Sep 1937).

The plainsong 'Veni creator spiritus' (Vespers hymn for Whit Sunday) is used in the Prelude to Part I, nos 6a-c and 6f in Part II and as the conclusion to Part III. Britten made a further setting of Hopkins' 'The world is charged' as 'God's grandeur' in A.M.D.G. (Aug 1939).

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Part I - Prologue

10

1 Prelude (org, orch)

2 O Thou that movest all (Mary Duclaux, 1857-1944) (SATB, orch)

3 The sun, the moon, the stars (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1802-1892) (ten, SA, orch)

4a This is my commandment (John 13, 14) (ten, SATB, orch)

4b With wide-embracing love (Emily Brontë, 1818-1848) (sop, contr, SATB, orch)

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Part II - The Fruits of the Spirit

20

5 O life, o love, now undivided (Mary Duclaux, 1857-1944) (sop, contr, SATB, orch)

6a A voice within our souls hath spoken (contr, ten, bass, org)

6b The fruit of the spirit is love (contr, org)

6c The fruit of the spirit is faith (bass, org)

6d The fruit of the spirit is goodness (contr, org)

6e '@The fruit of the spirit is long-suffering'' (contr, org)

6f The fruit of the spirit is joy (contr, ten, bass, org)

7 The spirit of the lord (Antiphon for Whit Sunday) (sop, contr, ten, bass, SATB, org, orch)

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Part III - Epilogue

30

8 O knowing, glorious spirit! (Henry Vaughan, 1622-1695) (sop, fl, harp, vn)

9 The world is charged (Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889) (sop, SATB, org, orch)

10 Come, o creator spirit, come (tr Robert Bridges) (sop, SATB, org, orch)

0829/3997193019384000000070749099819301938524000000070754411882901000Radio broadcast5 Jun 19381464BBC National

Sophie Wyss sop, Anne Wood contr, Emlyn Bebb ten, Victor Harding bass, Felix Aylmer, Leo Genn, Robert Speaight spkrs, BBC Singers (Section B), BBC Orchestra (Section C), Trevor Harvey cond

0146419301938650000000707555828BTC849849BBM/chartists_march_missingThe chartists' march [missing]Radio score1Incidental musicmissingby 10 May 1938996Chorus (TB) - percJ.H. Miller (?-?)

Music written to accompany a feature in which actors in the BBC studios of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham and London told the story of the march of the Chartists in 1838. Produced by John Pudney. The score is missing.

001938by 10 May 1938830BTC851851BBM/spain_missingSpain [missing]Theatre music1Incidental musicmissingJun 1938999Male and female vv - cl - vn (=dulcitone) - pf(of play and vocal numbers) Montagu Slater (1902-1956)

The manuscript score is missing. Written to accompany the first of three short plays by Montagu Slater. The other two were Seven ages of man and The station master, with scores by Lennox Berkeley.

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