Identity area
Reference code
OTUFM 10-A-062
Title
The journals of Susanna Moodie : for speaker, keyboards (two players), and percussion
Date(s)
- 1972 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 ms. score (33 p.) : ink, copies + 13 pages of textual records + 1 ms. scores (6, 9, 35 p.) : copies
Context area
Name of creator
(1927-2022)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
John Beckwith (1990)
Content and structure area
Scope and content
File consists of the manuscript score, sketches, and cue sheets for John Beckwith's incidental music for Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie, written in 1972 and revised in 1990. The music is a collage incorporating 19th-century Canadian published music. It was commissioned by CBC Radio in 1972 and first broadcast that year with Mia Anderson as the reader and instrumentalists William Wright, John Beckwith, and John Wyre.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Text in English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Former identifiers
7.50 - 78450 rbsc, 7.50 - 78451 rbsc
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Atwood, Margaret (Subject)
- Wright, William (Subject)
- Wyre, John (Subject)