Britten Thematic Catalogue

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BTC854 ADVANCE DEMOCRACY

Film score
Composition date: pre Oct 1938
Genre: Incidental music
Performing forces:

Chorus (SATB) - perc (?cymb, sd, bd)

Scoring deduced from the composition sketch and film soundtrack.

Notes

The end title music comprises a medley of various left-wing songs including 'The internationale' and 'The red flag'. The music written for this film is not the same as that in the motet Advance democracy (Nov 1938).

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