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1. MS Mus. 1745/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1
Title:
Frederick Delius: Scores (as bound by the Delius Trust)
Scope & Content:
Bound volumes (1-49) formerly held by the Delius Trust, as arranged and catalogued by Rachel Lowe: A Catalogue of the Music Archive of the Delius Trust (1974). The sequence of the volumes (some of which are divided into two parts, designated A and/or B), and Lowe's original foliation, is retaine...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1888-1977
Extent:
54 volumes (including 12 volumes currently held by the Delius Trust)

2. MS Mus. 1745/1/44

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/44
Title:
Frederick Delius: Family Book (Genealogical Tables)
Scope & Content:
A collection of genealogical tables, with the following title on cover and title-page: 'Stammbaum / der / Familie Delius / Westfalischen Zweiges / 1604-1906'. The frontispiece is a coloured lithoprint of the Delius coat-of-arms. Placed inside the book: a complete family tree on a large folded s...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1927
Extent:
1 volume (with additional unbound material)

3. MS Mus. 1745/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/6
Title:
Frederick Delius: The Magic Fountain
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score, ink (ff. 1-118), with composer's libretto in English. Short score sketches, also ink (ff. 119-120). Lyric drama in three Acts. Threlfall, I/3. Publication: 1990, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 2. Studio performance for later transmission by the BBC, 30 July 1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1893-1896]
Extent:
1 volume (ff. i, 120)

4. MS Mus. 1745/1/12

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/12
Title:
Frederick Delius: Seven Danish Songs
Scope & Content:
Threlfall, III/4. Publication: 1987, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vols. 15a and 15b ('Songs with orchestra' Parts 1 and 2); for the earlier publication of particular songs, including pianoforte versions, see Lowe and see Threlfall. Performances of some of the orchestral versions (see ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897-1929
Extent:

1 volume (30 folios)

5. MS Mus. 1745/1/46

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/46
Title:
Frederick Delius: Koanga (vocal score)
Scope & Content:
Manuscript vocal score, in a copyist's hand with additions in the hand of the composer. N.B. This volume is currently held by the Delius Trust and is therefore unavailable from the British Library.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. MS Mus. 1745/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/1
Title:
Frederick Delius: Hiawatha
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score (ink over pencil), paginated 1-90 by the composer, lacking pp. 4-17 and 46-53. Tone poem for orchestra. Threlfall, VI/2. Publication: 2008, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Supp. Vol. 6. f. i. Original front cover, with original white label bearing autograph title, i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1888
Extent:
1 volume (i, 36 folios)

7. MS Mus. 1745/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/7
Title:
Frederick Delius: The Magic Fountain (vocal score)
Scope & Content:
Manuscript vocal score (black ink with occasional additions in red ink) arranged and prepared by Eric Fenby (autograph), paginated by Fenby as pp. 1-192. The score is undated but is known to have been made in 1953 for Sir Thomas Beecham with a view to publication. Threlfall, I/3. Publication: 1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1953
Extent:
1 volume (108 folios)

8. MS Mus. 1745/1/2A

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/2A
Title:
Frederick Delius: Text for Paa Vidderne (by Henrik Ibsen)
Scope & Content:
Typescripts of the text set by Delius, in Norwegian with English translation. Foliation continues from the previous volume. ff. 62-72. Text in Norwegian. Ibsen's authorship is not indicated. Carbon copy with accents added by hand. ff. 73-82. Text translated into English, without title, author no...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Norwegian
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 volume (ff. 62-82)

9. MS Mus. 1745/1/14

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/14
Title:
Frederick Delius: Mitternachtslied Zarathustras
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score (ink), for baritone and men's chorus with full orchestra. German text from Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra (Part IV), with English translation. Threlfall, II/1. Performance: 30 May 1899, London, St. James's Hall, Douglas Powell, cond. Alfred Hertz. The binding...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1898
Extent:

1 volume (i, 23 folios)

10. MS Mus. 1745/1/40

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/40
Title:
Frederick Delius: Sketches for Paris
Scope & Content:
Autograph full-score sketches and short-score workings, for the most part in pencil. Preceded by an extract from a related letter (1935, photocopy) from Eric Fenby to Sir Thomas Beecham. Threlfall, VI/14. ff. 1-3r. Letter extract (photocopy). Grez-sur-Loing, [19 January 1935], Eric Fenby to Sir...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1898]-1935
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)