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MS Mus. 1745/2/11/2
- Record Id:
- 040-002747155
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016914
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022599785.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1745/2/11/2
- Title:
- Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 2
- Scope & Content:
-
A small, undated music notebook, with a label to the inside front cover: 'H. Lard, 25 Rue Feydeau, Paris'. The contents (all notation) are chiefly written in pencil, with some in ink.
- In addition to the stationer's label pasted to the inside front cover (H. Lard), Delius has noted there in pencil two books: 'Fraser's [sic] / Golden Bow [sic] / David Cox / on Folk lore'. (The Golden Bough by J. G. Frazer was first published in two volumes in 1890.)
- f. 50. 'Nocturne'.
- f. 51. At the foot, a system of music also met in the sketched setting of 'Das gelbe Laub erzittert' (Heine) in MS Mus. 1745/2/6.
- f. 52. 'Endymion (Act 3)'.
- f. 54. 'Vorspiel'.
- f. 55v. 'Prelude to Endymion'.
- f. 58. 'Irmelin'.
- f. 58v relates to the Prelude to Act 3 (Irmelin).
- f. 60. 'Sonata'.
- f. 63v. 'Sundown, Symphony'.
- f. 64. 'Irmelin' (in the margin), with words set: 'Am I dreaming Am I dreaming'.
- f. 64v. 'Vorspiel to First Act'.
- f. 65. 'Irmelin Prelude to 1st Act'.
- f. 67. 'Irmelin motif'.
- f. 67v. 'Rolf (in the margin), and 'Nils comes upon the Castle'
- f. 68. 'Prelude 1st Act'.
- f. 68v. 'Sundown, Irmelin's Room'.
- f. 69. 'Nils motif'.
- f. 69v. 'Till the moon is up'.
- f. 71. 'Marcato Wedding'.
- f. 71v. 'Irmelin fair' and (margin) 'Longing motif'.
- f. 72. 'Sundown' and (set) 'I sit alone'.
- f. 72v. 'Sundown'.
- f. 73. 'Nils song. Pipe plays.' And (margin) '3 Act'.
- f. 73v. 'End of Prelude'.
- f. 74v. 'Prelude before last Scene'.
- f. 77. In margin, 'Nils adieux to Castle'.
- f. 81v. 'Irmelin' (ink).
- f. 82. 'Nils Song' (ink).
- From f. 83v, pages are inverted, but foliation continues as from the front of the notebook.
- f. 84. In the margin, 'Valse' [struck-through] and 'danse'. Across the page, 'Parisiana'.
- f. 84v. 'Parisiana' [oboe melody].
- f. 87v. 'Bretagne'.
- f. 88v. 'Kyrie Eleison'.
- After f. 40v, a piece of silver foil is inserted.
- ff. 90-89. Preliminary draft of 'Alle de voksende Skygger' (Jacobsen). For a more developed draft of a quite different setting of the same words, see MS Mus 1745/2/6; and for another draft setting (8 bars only), see MS Mus. 1745/1/36 (f. 86r). No complete and final setting of this poem appears to exist.
- f. 91. In ink, ?tunes collected in Brittany (an address in Finisterre is quoted).
- f. 95v. 'Danse & chanson Bretonne'.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016914
033-002739614
036-002747144
040-002747155 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1745 : Frederick Delius: Music manuscripts from the collection of the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/2 : Frederick Delius: Sir Thomas Beecham Accession to the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/2/11 : Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebooks
MS Mus. 1745/2/11/2 : Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 2 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002016914[0003]/033-002739614[0011]/036-002747144[0002]/040-002747155
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (folios 47-96)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1890
- End Date:
- 1890
- Date Range:
- [1890]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Green cardboard covers, 47 ff (one removed), 6-stave 95 x 133 mm. With 1 loose paper sheet (before f. 1) and two silver foil inserts as page markers (at ff. 14 and 41).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Irmelin (Opera)