Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC974 THIS WAY TO THE TOMB

Theatre score

Period of composition: 1944 - Oct 1945

Genre: Incidental music

Text: (of play and vocal numbers) Ronald Duncan (1914-1982)

Performing forces:

Sop, mez, ten, bass, chorus (SATB) - perc (susp cymb, sd, bd) - pf (4 hands)

Duration: 147'

Music only: 27

Written for the play of the same title in the form of masque and anti-masque.It includes Britten's setting of Psalm 70: Deus in adjutorium meum.

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