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MS Mus. 1745/1/24

Record Id:
040-002737114
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002016914
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100022562307.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/24
Title:
Frederick Delius: North Country Sketches
Scope & Content:

Autograph full score (ink and ink over pencil), with dynamics (hairpins) in blue pencil added as far as f.11v.

Threlfall, VI/20. Publication: 1923, Augener Ltd., full score 15927. Performance: 10 May 1915, London, Queen's Hall, LSO, Thomas Beecham. For sketch material and draft scores, see MS Mus. 1745/2/8.

  • ff. i and 48. Paper covers of Augener's hire library, with their stamped address, hire library number 59021, and plate number 15927. Composer's name and 'North Country Sketches' written on front cover, with title repeated on back cover.
  • f. 1. Title-page: '"North Country Sketches" / a) Autumn / The wind sounds in the trees / b) Winter Landscape / c) Dance / d) The March of Spring / (Woodlands, meadows & silent moors) / Frederick Delius / 1914 / Grez sur Loing / (Seine & Marne)'. All Delius's autograph, except 'The March of Spring' (which is perhaps the hand of Philip Heseltine), written over an erased title just legible as 'Spring's Awakening'.
  • f. 1v. Orchestra list (and Augener's stamped address)
  • ff 2-11. Movement I. Only the autograph date (1913) and tempo ('slow - with even flowing movement') are visible on f. 2: Delius's title is occluded by Augener's typed title pasted down (f. 3), which slightly differs from the title-page: 'The wind soughs in the trees'.
  • f. 10v is struck-through by the composer, the revised finale appearing on f. 10.
  • f. 11v is blank.
  • ff. 12-15v. Movement II. Entitled, by Delius, 'Winter landscape' and dated 1913.
  • ff. 16-30v. Movement III. Entitled (in another hand) 'Dance' and dated (by Delius) 1914. A full score pencil sketch on f. 24 is struck-through, and the verso of f. 24 is pasted onto the recto of f. 25.
  • ff. 31-46v. Movement IV. Entitled, by Delius, '"The March of Spring" / (Woodlands, meadows & silent moors)' and dated 1914. The title in ink has been written over (just legible) 'Spring's Awakening'. Tempo: 'With a light & throbbing movement, never dragging'.
  • f. 43v is a full score pencil sketch struck-through,
  • f. 47 is a mis-placed title page for 'Dance', dated 1914 and signed Frederick Delius.
  • f. 47v is blank.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Project / Collection:
Music Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002016914
033-002716836
040-002737114
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. 1745/1/24 : Frederick Delius: North Country Sketches
Hierarchy:
032-002016914[0001]/033-002716836[0028]/040-002737114
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume (i, 48 folios)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Not applicable
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1913
End Date:
1914
Date Range:
1913-1914
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Physical Characteristics:
Written on 12 double and 22 single sheets of 30-stave music paper (15¾ x 11¾ inches), with paper covers.
Custodial History:
Given to the Delius Trust by Augener/Galliard in 1964. Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 14.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Notes:
Original foliation: 1 volume (ff. 1-46)
Subjects:
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. North country sketches
Related Material:
  • For corrected proof sheets (Augener Ltd., 1922), see British Library Music Collections H.403.g.
  • For proof sheets of the piano duet arranged by Philip Heseltine (Augener Ltd., 1922), corrected by Heseltine and by Jelka Delius, see British Library Music Collections H.403.(2.) and (3.).
Related Archive Descriptions:
Add MS 54391