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71. 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

72. 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)

73. 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)

74. 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)

75. 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

76. 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)

77. MS Mus. 1745/2/13/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/13/3
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Draft Scores for Margot la Rouge and for A Mass of Life
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-117. Margot la Rouge (sketches and draft scores) Threlfall, I/7. ff. 1-3. Fragmentary sketches, comprising 1 folio and 1 bifolium (12-stave, 290 x 235 mm.). Two-stave pencil sketches. Annotations include: 'good', 'Margot motif', 'Lili Beguin', and 'Margot's song of woods'. ff. 4-40. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1902-1905
Extent:
1 file (246 folios)

78. MS Mus. 1745/2/13/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/13/6
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): 'Margot La Rossa' (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:
Final full score (autograph, ink, bound, with marbled endpapers). Words in French, with Italian translation added (mauve ink, probably by Jelka Delius). On the fly-leaf, 'Margot la Rossa' and 'Personaggi'. On the verso of the fly-leaf, 'L'orchestra'. Signed and dated at the start of the score [p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
1901
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

79. MS Mus. 1745/2/13/7

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/13/7
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Mass of Life, Vol. 1 (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:
The first of two volumes comprising the final full score (autograph, ink and ink over pencil). The second volume is MS Mus. 1745/2/13/8. Threlfall, II/4. Title-page: '"Eine Messe des Lebens" / (mit Text zusammengestellt aus Zarathustra von Friedrich Nietzsche) / Frederick Delius / Grez sur Loi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

80. MS Mus. 1745/2/13/8

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/13/8
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Mass of Life, Vol. 2 (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:
The second of two volumes comprising the final full score (autograph, ink and ink over pencil). The first volume is MS Mus. 1745/2/13/7. Threlfall, II/4. On the fly-leaf: '34 / BG / Mass of Life / Teil II' (pencil), and '88902' (blue crayon). pp. [101]-234, with a blank un-numbered page followi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 volume (69 folios)