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Score Details

Title: Billy Budd (2-Act version): Reduced orchestration
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Arranger: Bedford, Steuart
Duration: 158'
Composition Date: 1951, rev.1960, orch. 2016
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Instrumentation: opera
Description: Opera in two acts, reduced orchestration by Steuart Bedford
Scoring:

Major roles: T,Bar,B; minor roles: 4T,7Bar,BBar,2B;

children's roles: 4Tr,boy speaker,boy actors; men's chorus

2(I&II=picc).2.corA.2(II=Ebcl,bcl).2.dbn-4.3.3.1-timp(3).perc(6):xyl/glsp/tgl/block/tamb/SD/TD/BD/whip/cyms/gong(sm)/4dr-harp-str

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Territory: This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world
Rental: Billy Budd (2-Act version): Reduced orchestration
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