File 036 - A Chaucer suite : for contralto, tenor, and baritone

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OTUFM 10-A-036

Title

A Chaucer suite : for contralto, tenor, and baritone

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  • 1962, 1972 (Creation)

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1 ms. score (9 p.) : ink + 1 ms. score (14 p.) : ink transparencies + 2 pages of textual records

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Name of creator

Beckwith, John
(1927-2022)

Repository

University of Toronto Music Library

Archival history

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John Beckwith (1996, 2018)

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File consists of the manuscript score and ink transparency masters for the Canadian Music Centre publication (1972). File contains sketches for the rondeau, first couplet, and second couplet of John Beckwith’s “A Chaucer Suite” for contralto, tenor, and baritone. The suite consists of four movements:

  1. Now welcome, somer
  2. Merciles beauté
  3. Compleynt to his purs
  4. Gentilesse.

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  • English

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    Text in English.

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    otufm10-john-beckwith.pdf

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    3.27 - 78407 rbsc, 3.27 - 78408 rbsc

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