Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??

Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

MS Mus. 1745/1/39

Record Id:

040-002737979

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002016914

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100022566197.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100101099766.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1745/1/39

Title:

Frederick Delius: A Volume of Sketches

Scope & Content:

f. 1-1v. Headed in the hand of Eric Fenby (green ink): 'Early attempt at piano piece'. 71 bars in 3/4 time, in G minor/B major in a mazurka style, scored in ink.
f. 1v. (Upside-down), a 21-bar pencil sketch for voice and pianoforte.
f. 2-2v. Headed (in pencil): 'Rhapsody good'. Harmonic plan on two staves for a short work, instrumentation not indicated. Scored in ink and pencil. 36 bars to 'End A', followed by 2 further bars and the remark 'etc'.
ff. 4-14r. Preceded by an (f. 3) interleaved white sheet headed: 'Zanoni - 1888'. Short-score sketch (ink, with pencil additions) for the musical and dramatic treatment of the novel Zanoni by Bulwer Lytton. The score, which spans Acts 1-IV, includes dialogue (in English) and detailed stage directions. Folios 13v and 14v are blank.
ff. 15-18r. Headed by Delius '(Marche des Marionettes)', with an annotation in the hand of Eric Fenby beside the title: '- rejected unfinished work'. First draft full score (pencil) of 42 bars. Followed by 4 blank folios (unfoliated)
f. 19r-v. Passages in short score (ink) from Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
ff. 21-25v. Preceded by an (f. 20) interleaved white sheet with the heading (in Fenby's hand, green ink): 'incomplete orchestral sketch (A L'Amore) / pencil'. The score begins with the last four bars of a movement, followed by a 3-bar link to the extant score (beginning f. 21v) which is in B major and common time. Related to draft material in the Beecham Accession, MS Mus. 1745/2/10, ff. 57-64. (Threlfall, VI/8)
ff. 27-52v. Preceded by an (f. 26) interleaved white sheet with a heading that repeats Delius's heading on f. 24: '"Legendes" pour piano & orchestra (Sagan) / Fritz Delius / 1890'. Scored in pencil, with ff. 46v and 47r blank.
f. 54r-v. Carbon copy (8½ x 5¼ inches) of pencil notes for the last part of the libretto of The Magic Fountain, differing from the final version.
f. 56r. A small manuscript leaf torn from a pocket-book (6¼ x 4 inches) containing a 4-bar sketch (ink) on two staves.
f. 56v. (Upside-down), a 10-bar pencil sketch on two staves, in B flat. Beneath, Delius has written: 'Zadkeil Grammaire'.
f. 55r. Notes (in the hand of C. F. Keary, in ink) for the libretto of Koanga, Act II, 'Chorus of Negroes'. (The remainder of Keary's draft libretto, pp. 2-9, is in the Beecham Accession, MS Mus. 1745/2/7.)
f. 55v is blank.
f. 57r-v. Headed (in Fenby's hand, green ink): 'Sketch for Koanga'. An ink short-score sketch, headed by Delius 'Palmyra's dance' followed by 'good' (in large hand, pencil). On f. 57v there is a sketch for 'He will meet her when the sun goes down'.
ff. 58-59r. 'Rhapsody'. A sketch (ink) in 3/4, on 20-stave music paper.
f. 59v. Written the opposite way up, a 42-bar sketch, 3-stave score (paginated as p. 13 by Delius). Material for Over the Hills and Far Away (cf. bar 248, recapitulation). The score is struck-through with a single pencil stroke.
ff. 60-61r. The title 'Dance' (in ink) is preceded by (in pencil) either the personal pronoun 'I' or perhaps by the Roman numeral 'I'. After this, Delius has written: 'good'. The ink score concludes on f. 61r, where Delius has written in pencil 'the end of dance'. Staves 9 and 10 of this score are also the opening four bars of In a Summer Garden. At the bottom of f. 61r, there is a 16-bar pencil sketch in 3/4.
f. 61v. 'Rhapsody'. A 31-bar pencil sketch.
f. 62r-v. Headed 'Rondel' (in pencil), an ink short-score sketch, with two bars added in pencil on f. 62r.
f. 63r-v. 'Mountain Poem (Rhapsody)', struck-through on f. 63r but not on f. 63v. At the foot of f. 63r, in Fenby's hand (pencil): 'rejected material - Over the Hills & Far Away'. For f. 63v, cf. the middle section of Winter Night (Sleigh Ride), in MS Mus. 1745/1/49.
f. 64r-v. Short-score pencil sketches for an untitled dance-like piece. Folio 64v is paginated '2'; cf. f. 90r-v below which are paginated '3' and '4' and scored on the same oblong format paper (10½ x 13¾ inches).
ff. 65r-66vv. Short-score sketch (ink and pencil). Incidental music for Gunnar Heiberg's play Folkeraadet. On f. 66v, Delius refers to the '5th Act' and includes some dialogue. For Folkeraadet, see MS Mus. 1745/1/13.
f. 67r-v. Sketch in ink and pencil for the piano piece Badinage; cf. the copyist's score in MS Mus. 1745/1/35 (ff. 15-16v). For the autograph draft score, see MS Mus. 1745/2/5 (ff. 5-7).
f. 68r-v. 'Chimères & Realities'. An unfinished short-score sketch in common time. (The same title also appears in the notebook MS Mus. 1745/2/11/4, at the foot of f. 3.)
f. 69r. A short piece of vocal score (pencil) beginning 'Vagabonds are we ...'. An early sketch for the Paradise Garden scene in A Village Romeo and Juliet.
f. 69v is a continuation of 'Chimères & Realities' begun on f. 68.
f. 70r. Vocal score pencil sketch (beginning 'Où est Margot la Rouge') for the last nine bars of Margot la Rouge. Paginated '73' by Delius. (For the draft short score to which this folio belongs, see MS Mus. 1745/2/13/3.)
f. 70v is blank.
f. 71r. Pencil sketch fragment, for voice and pianoforte. The words end with the line: 'I shall have had my day' (Tennyson, Maud,Part 1, Section XI). At the foot of the page (and upside-down), a heading in pencil: 'Variations'.
f. 71v is blank.
f. 72r-v. With an annotation in the hand of Eric Fenby at the head of the page: 'Cello Sonata - rejected'. 26 bars for cello and piano; f. 72v has been deleted with a single (and faint) pencil stroke. Bars 35-52 of the published score correspond (with some differences) to f. 72r. For a 6-bar continuation of the Cello Sonata draft, see MS Mus. 1745/2/5 (f. 14 recto, numbered p. 5).
f. 73 is a 5-stave strip from a large sheet of full score paper. The recto is headed 'Dance' and contains a pencil short-score sketch of 9 bars in 4/4 time. Three more bars in the same vein are on f. 79v, which also includes another 5 bars, scored more neatly and in ink.
ff. 74-80r comprise pencil sketches for The Song of the High Hills, scored on music paper of different types and sizes, including some manuscript strips.
f. 74r. Headed, in Fenby's hand: 'Song of the High Hills - rejected'. A full-score sketch; cf. p. 23 of the published score.
f. 74v contains only a 3-bar chord in the strings.
There follows a blank folio that has not been foliated.
ff. 75-76 is a double sheet, again headed by Fenby (f. 75r) as rejected material.
f. 75r is a short score sketch of the opening bars.
ff. 75v-76v have been used upside-down.
f. 77r contains a full score sketch headed 'Variation O', beside which Fenby has added: 'rejected sketch / High Hills'.
f. 77v is a deleted short-score sketch for the entry of Gerda's sisters in Fennimore and Gerda (cf. ff. 101-116 below).
f. 79 is a five-stave manuscript strip. On the recto, headed 'Symphonie / AAA', a short score (pencil) of 26 bars annotated 'mountain song'; on f. 79v, a short score (pencil and ink) of 17 bars also annotated 'mountain song'.
ff. 78-80r are both five-stave manuscript strips. In the left margin of f. 78r, Delius has written 'Var 9' and scored for strings and woodwind; Fenby has annotated 'High Hills - rejected'. 'Var 9' also appears in the left margin of f. 80r, which contains only a single bar of short score.
f. 78v has been used both ways up, and includes material in 12/8 which has been struck-through.
f. 80v is blank.
ff. 82-87v is a folding of three double sheets of 16-stave music paper which includes both short score sketches referring to the Requiem and sketches for songs in English. Among the sketches are 'Two Songs for Children', published by Oxford University Press (1924) - the Stichvorlagen for these two songs (in Jelka Delius's hand) are in MS Mus. 1745/4/3.
ff. 88-94 is a mixed group of sketches, including (f. 89r) 15 bars on four staves headed in Fenby's hand 'Quartet sketch', and (ff. 90-91r) material headed by Fenby as 'rejected sketches String Quartet'. (For related sketch material for the Quartet, see the Beecham Accession, MS Mus. 1745/2/5.) Other material in this group includes: 'Dance Rhapsody' (Delius's annotation at the bottom of f. 89v); 'Slow movement - symphonie' (Delius's heading on f. 92r, before which Fenby has added 'Poem of Life & Love - sketch rejected'); and 'Dance for harpsichord - rejected sketch' (Fenby's heading, f. 94r). The sketch on f. 94v includes the melody in the Prelude to Act V, Hassan.
There is a blank folio (unfoliated) between ff. 94 and 95.
ff. 95v-97v are full score sketches paginated by Delius as pp. 1-5, f. 95r being an unpaginated draft title-page: 'Impressions / Summer morning on the moors [both in very faint erased pencil, followed by in ink:] / Summer evenings / on the river / Summer morning on the moors / in the ball room'.
ff. 98-99v are a revision of ff. 95v-97v and have been paginated by Delius as pp. 1-4. (For related material, paginated pp. 5-8, see ff. 108-109 below. Further related material paginated pp. 9-12 is in the Beecham Accession, MS Mus. 1745/2/9 - sketches and drafts for 'Impressions of Nature')
ff. 101-116 is a group of sketches referring mainly to Fennimore and Gerda.
f. 116v is blank.
ff. 118-121v are sketches for Hassan.
f. 122r is a memorandum in German (ink, unknown hand) listing errata in an unspecified full score (identified by Rachel Lowe as Songs of Sunset, and presumed to be 1911).
f. 122v is blank.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Music Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002016914
033-002716836
040-002737979

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. 1745/1/39 : Frederick Delius: A Volume of Sketches

Hierarchy:

032-002016914[0001]/033-002716836[0043]/040-002737979

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume (122 folios)

Digitised Content:

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100101099766.0x000001

Thumbnail:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1888

End Date:

1911

Date Range:

1888-[1911]

Era:

Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

The sketches are written on a wide variety of music paper, including some small manuscript strips.

Custodial History:

Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession Nos. 1 and 13.

Information About Copies:

Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=MS_Mus._1745/1/39

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Original foliation: 1 volume (ff. 1-115)

Subjects: