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21. MS Mus. 1745/2/7

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/7
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Drafts for the Early Operas
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-10. Irmelin: miscellaneous sketch pages (including some material for The Magic Fountain) f. 1. Ink sketches on 3 staves, followed by pencil sketches of the Irmelin motive: 'End of Act 1st' / 'Vorspiel to last Act'. (16-stave 344 x 265 mm.) ff. 2-4. Ink draft of scene with Nils and the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
[1890]-[1904]
Extent:
1 file (315 folios)

22. MS Mus. 1745/2/11

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/11
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebooks
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1887-[?1924]
Extent:
7 notebooks, plus various manuscript 'strips'

23. MS Mus. 1745/2/11/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/11/2
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 2
Scope & Content:
A small, undated music notebook, with a label to the inside front cover: 'H. Lard, 25 Rue Feydeau, Paris'. The contents (all notation) are chiefly written in pencil, with some in ink. In addition to the stationer's label pasted to the inside front cover (H. Lard), Delius has noted there in penci...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1890]
Extent:
1 notebook (folios 47-96)

24. MS Mus. 1745/2/11/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/11/3
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 3
Scope & Content:
The notebook (undated) contains notes, in ink and in pencil, for several works, as follows: Koanga: 'Calinda dance' (f. 97); 'Quintette' (f. 98); 'Entracte to 3rd Act Koanga' (f. 104); and a two-page description (in English) of the 'Prelude to III Act' (ff. 123v-124, notebook inverted and revers...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1895]-[?1907]
Extent:
1 notebook (folios 97-124)

25. MS Mus. 1745/2/12

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/12
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score (ink) of the complete opera, bound in three volumes. The score was used by Sir Thomas Beecham for his 1953 production (New Theatre, Oxford) and includes his dynamics and other markings in blue pencil throughout. Bar numbers were added in pencil by Beecham's librarian, George...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1890]-[1931]
Extent:
3 volumes

26. MS Mus. 1745/2/12/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/12/1
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 1, and Prelude to Irmelin
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-6. Prelude [1931] to the opera, full score in the hand (black ink) of Eric Fenby. Based on four themes from the opera, using parts of the Preludes to Acts 1 and 3. Threlfall, VI/27. Performance: 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House. Performed as an Interlude in Act III of Koan...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1890]-[1931]
Extent:
1 volume and 3 bifolia (63 folios)

27. MS Mus. 1745/2/12/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/12/2
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 2
Scope & Content:
Irmelin Act 2, autograph full score (black ink), bound. Paginated pp. 113-229, consecutive with the previous volume. Threlfall, I/2. Introduction, p. 11. Scene I, p. 122 (bar 92). Scene II, p. 156 (bar 315). Scene III, p. 182 (bar 488). Scene IV, p. 193 (bar 551). Scene V, p. 208 (bar 658). End ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1890]
Extent:
1 volume (59 folios)

28. MS Mus. 1745/2/12/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/12/3
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 3
Scope & Content:
Irmelin Act 2, autograph full score (black ink), bound. Paginated pp. 230-381, consecutive with the previous volume. Threlfall, I/2. Introduction, p. 230. Scene I, pp. 242-327 (bars 95-704). Prelude, p. 328 (bar 705). [Scene II], p. 336 (bar 766). Fine, p. 381 (bar 1072). On the recto of the fol...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1890]
Extent:
1 volume (81 folios)

29. MS Mus. 1745/2/13

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/13
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Various Scores and Draft Material in Large Format
Scope & Content:
Various manuscript full score material on large-size paper, from drafts to final scores, for the following works: Piano concerto; Paris; A Village Romeo and Juliet; Margot La Rouge; A Mass of Life; Cynara; Songs of Sunset (Songs of Twilight & Sadness); Fennimore and Gerda; Appalachia; The So...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
[1897]-[1929]
Extent:
8 files

30. MS Mus. 1745/2/13/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/13/2
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Village Romeo and Juliet
Scope & Content:
The material comprises a number of groupings of draft full score, various sketch sheets partly in vocal score form, and short score sketches for Scene 4. Threlfall, I/6. (1). ff. 1-155. Draft full score. Drafted in pencil on ungathered bifolia, all 36-stave 543 x 350 mm. ff. 1-38. Act I, Scen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1899]
Extent:
1 file (173 folios)