Benjamin Britten


A Boy was born (OUP version)

This OUP version is from a score dated 1934. The Work, originally written in 1932/3, was probably revised later, and a newer OUP score, from 1958, is slightly different (and is in fact almost identical to the Novello score, also from 1958, mentioned below).

Here is a "clickable" Table of the available Midi Files for this Work.
Note that there are at least two versions of this Work, and that they are not-so-subtly different. The one I keyed in first is the 1934 Oxford University Press one (see the Files below), while the one I "keyed in" second is the Novello one (actually, I "converted" the former into the latter: the difference is mainly in the swapping of a few notes in one Voice with those of another, plus quite a bit of "shortening" by snipping out a few bars here and there; I may have missed a few swaps out, but I hope not!).
Note also that in Section 4: "Jesu, as Thou art our Saviour", the SATBs 1 sing as the semi-chorus):-

A Boy was born (OUP version)
UNemphasized Soprano 1
(or Semi-Chorus)		 Soprano 2  Alto 1 
(or Semi-Chorus)		  Alto 2  Tenor 1
(or Semi-Chorus)		 Tenor 2  Bass 1 
(or Semi-Chorus)		  Bass 2 
1: A Boy was Born yes As 1 yes As 1 yes As 1 yes As 1
2: Lullay, Jesu yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
3: Herod yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
4: Jesu, as Thou art our Saviour yes As 1 yes As 1 yes As 1 yes As 1
5: The Three Kings yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
6: In the Bleak Mid-Winter yes yes yes yes None None None None
7: Noel! yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

That's the end of the Work.

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Files originally uploaded in Jul/10.