The Britten Thematic CatalogueLightning Talk – NEMLA Fall Meeting 2010Jonathan Manton Britten-Pears Foundation

Aims: 1

• Create an online catalog of Britten’s complete works based around the composer’s holograph manuscript sources (98% at BPF), including: • all published, original works• arrangements and realizations• juvenilia• unfinished works• unrealized projects

Aims: 2

• To provide documentary information for each work, including:• Composition details (date, revision, dedicatee, text set, etc)

• Brief composition history (for complex works)

• Details of manuscript sources• Publishing information• Notation and corresponding audio incipits

Aims: 3

• To ensure that the catalog design is extendable in order to integrate information from other BPF resources or future projects, including:

•Correspondence•Diary entries•Photographs•Production materials (costumes, set designs, programs)

•Bibliography •Upcoming performance calendar

Aims: 4

• To create a catalog that exploits the potential of, and is appropriate to, online functionality:• Concise individual records• Efficient use of cross referencing links

• Content rich features / multimedia not incorporated into traditional print based thematic catalogs

The numbers

Nearly 1150 works in total

Juvenilia*

Opus No.s

*approx.

Published works without Op. No.s*

Realizations and completions*

Unfinished or unrealized projects*

Juvenilia overview

Online Beta Version

www.brittenproject.org

www.brittenpears.org