MS Mus. 1745/1/33

1. A Song of Summer (ff. 1-30/31). Manuscript full score (ink) in Eric Fenby's hand. Tone poem for orchestra.

Threlfall, VI/26. Publication: 1931, Boosey & Hawkes (full score 6931). Performance: 17 September 1931, London, Queen's Hall, BBC Orchestra, Sir Henry J. Wood.

• Original cream paper front cover (f. i) to A Song of Summer, Cynara and A Late Lark. Titles in pencil, with 'Delius' in blue pencil.
• Second original cream paper front cover (also not foliated), blank.
• f. 1. Title-page (ink): 'A Song of Summer / by / Frederick Delius', dated '1929' at the bottom right of the folio, which bears a circular stamp: 'Bibl Delius Trust' (all folios stamped thus to f. 48, except f. 4).
• f. 1v is blank.
• ff. 2-30/31. Full score, with many pasted-down amendments foliated as follows:
• f. 3 is a 5-bar amendment in the cello part on f. 2v. (Cf. Lowe, Catalogue, p. 103.)
• f. 5 is a 3-bar amendment in the harp part on f. 4.
• f. 6 is a 7-bar amendment in the celli and bass parts on f. 4v.
• f. 9 is a half-bar amendment in the clarinet part on f. 8.
• f. 10 is part of the direction ('Poco più Lento') on f. 8v.
• f. 11 is a 2-bar amendment in the oboe part on f. 8v.
• f. 12 is a 3-bar amendment in the first clarinet part on f. 8v.
• f. 13 is a two-bar amendment in the second/third clarinet part on f. 8v.
• f. 14 is part of the direction ('Poco più Lento') above the brass on f. 8v.
• f. 15 is part of the direction ('Poco più Lento') above the strings on f. 8v.
• f. 17 is a 2-bar amendment in the flute part on f. 16r.
• f. 18 is a single bar amenment in the oboe part on f. 16r.
• f. 20 is a 3-bar amendment in the trombone part on f. 19v.
• f. 22 is a 3-bar amendment in the double bassoon and horn parts on f. 21r.
• f. 23 is a single bar amendment in the celli and bass parts on f. 21r.
• f. 25 is a single bar amendment in the part for second violin on f. 24r.
• f. 26 is a re-naming of bassoons 1 and 3 in the margin of f. 24v.
• f. 27 is a single bar rest in the part for third bassoon on f. 24v.
• f. 28 is a 2-bar amendment in the third bassoon part on f. 24v.
• f. 29 is a 2-bar amendment in the parts for second violin and viola on f. 24v.
• f. 31 is a 5-bar amendment in the part for third bassoon on f. 30r.

2. Cynara (ff. 32-44). Manuscript full score (ink) for baritone voice and orchestra, in the hand of Eric Fenby. This fair copy was made in 1929. The work was sketched by Delius in 1907, and finished by dictation to Fenby in 1929.

Threlfall, III/5. Publication: 1931, Boosey & Hawkes (full score 6964). Performance: 18 October 1929, London, Queen's Hall, John Goss, BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Sir Thomas Beecham.

• f. 32r. Title-page: 'CYNARA / words by / ERNEST DOWSON / SETTING FOR / Baritone Voice and Orchestra / by / FREDERICK DELIUS'.
• f. 32v is blank.
• f. 33r. The text for Cynara, i.e. the poem by Ernest Dowson, 'Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae'. Dowson's title is from Horace ('I am not the same as I was in the days of Cynara').
• f. 33r is blank.
• ff. 34-44. Full score, with Sir Thomas Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout, including a change of tempo from 60 crotchet BPM to 80 crotchet BPM.
• f. 34. The title is repeated at the head of the folio, together with the names of Dowson and Delius, and the date '1907', indicating when the work was first sketched.
• f. 42v includes a single bar deletion effected by a vertical strip of white paper (f. 43) pasted over.
• f. 44v is blank.
• For Fenby's score prepared for the engraver, see MS Mus. 1745/3/9.

3. A Late Lark (ff. 45-48). Manuscript full score (ink) for voice and orchestra, in the hand of Eric Fenby. Setting of a poem by W. E. Henley, sketched in 1924 or 1925, and completed by dictation to Fenby for the 1929 festival.

• ff. 45-47. Full score, with title at the head of f. 45: 'A LATE LARK / W. E. Henley / Frederick Delius / 1925 ['5' is struck-through in pencil and '4' is written underneath]. With conductor's markings throughout in blue pencil by Sir Thomas Beecham.
• f. 48 is a mis-placed title-page, which includes a pencil comment by Henry Gibson (Beecham's secretary at the time of the 1929 festival): 'Vocal Score sent to Heddle Nash 8.7.29'.
• For a fair copy manuscript by Fenby, used as the publisher's Stichvorlage and incoporating Beecham's performance markings, see MS Mus. 1745/3/11.

4. Idyll (ff. 49-83). Photostat copy of the manuscript full score (ink) for soprano, baritone and full orchestra, in the hand of Eric Fenby [1932]. The text was adapted by Robert Nichols from several poems by Walt Whitman (particularly, 'Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City'). The music of Idyll is extracted from the opera Margot la Rouge (see Lowe, Catalogue, p. 166, for a concordance).

Threlfall, II/10. Publication: 1933, Boosey & Hawkes (Fenby, vocal score: 13824); 1988 (Fenby, study score), Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 13b. Performance: 3 October 1933, London, Queen's Hall (Promenade Concert), Dora Labette, Roy Henderson, BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Sir Henry J. Wood.

• f. 49. Title-page to Idyll (written by Fenby, upper case in blue pencil), incorporating in parenthesis 'Once I Passed Through a Populous City'.
• f. 50. Title-page to Prelude to the Idyll (written by Fenby, upper case in blue pencil), also incoporating the title of Whitman's poem.
• ff. 51-55. Prelude full score (photostat), dated 1901 on f. 44.
• ff. 56-83. Idyll full score (photostat). The score exhibits Beecham's rehearsal markings throughout. Blank portions of the score reveal Beecham's performance 'deletions' (or occlusions), effected by his covering of the original score in various places, on ff. 58v, 64r, 66v, 68r (the copy of all of original p. 22 showing 'white' rather than 'black') and 68v. The photostat was produced with Beecham's occlusions in situ. On f. 56r, the first 12 bars have been struck-through by Beecham.
• f. 83v is blank.
• For the original manuscript from which these photostat pages were made (revealing those parts of the original score that Beecham cut, i.e. occluded by covering), see MS Mus. 1745/3/8/4.