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MS Mus. 1745/1/17
- Record Id:
- 040-002736853
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016914
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022561904.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1745/1/17
- Title:
- Frederick Delius: Life's Dance (Symphonic Poem)
- Scope & Content:
-
Manuscript score in a copyist's hand, except ff. 39-42v which are in Delius's hand.
Threlfall, VI/15. Performance: 15 November 1912, Berlin, Philharmonic Orchestra, Oskar Fried (dedicatee). Publication: 1912, Tischer & Jagenberg, Cologne; 1988, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 24a.
- f. i. Original manuscript paper cover (green), with title and date in Delius's hand: 'Life's dance / Lebenstanz [struck-through] / (Der Tanz des Lebens) [struck-through] / Frederick Delius / Grez sur Loing / (S&M) / 1912'.
- f. 1. Orchestra list in Delius's hand, in German (ink) with parallel English version (pencil).
- f. 1v is blank.
- ff. 2-42. Full score, in copyist hand (except ff. 38-42v). Rehearsal letters and most additional markings, including corrections (ff. 3, 7v, 23, 38v) in blue and lead pencil, appear to be in Delius's hand.
- f. 2. Although most of the score is by a copyist, Delius has written at the head of f. 2: 'Life's Dance / Oskar Fried gewidmet / Frederick Delius' (name in pencil). Delius has also re-written (in pencil) the names of the instruments against the staves, and the tempo directions 'Very quick - with great vigour' and 'con vigor'.
- ff. 38-42v. In Delius's hand, a revised ending incorporating most of the final material from the version of 1901 (for which, see MS Mus. 1745/1/16).
- ff. 43-44, the original final folios in the copyist's hand, have been pasted together. On f. 43, remarks by Delius in blue and lead pencil.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016914
033-002716836
040-002736853 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1745 : Frederick Delius: Music manuscripts from the collection of the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/1 : Frederick Delius: Scores (as bound by the Delius Trust)
MS Mus. 1745/1/17 : Frederick Delius: Life's Dance (Symphonic Poem) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002016914[0001]/033-002716836[0020]/040-002736853
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (ff. 1-44 + i)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1912
- End Date:
- 1912
- Date Range:
- 1912
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- The score is written on 35 single and 3 double sheets of 28-stave music paper (15¾ x 11¼ inches), upright format, with a single folio of 34-stave paper (15¾ x 11¾ inches) on which the orchestra list is written.
- Custodial History:
- Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Fried, Oskar, conductor and composer, 1871-1941
- Subjects:
- Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Life's dance