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MS Mus. 1745/2/11/4
- Record Id:
- 040-002747306
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016914
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022601310.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1745/2/11/4
- Title:
- Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 4
- Scope & Content:
-
Undated material, in pencil and some in ink, with the following headings and annotations:
- f. 126. A loose leaf (ruled page from a notebook of smaller size) containing a list of various books by George Meredith, Henry James, J. M. Barrie, and Gustave Flaubert (repeating many of the books included on a similar sheet of paper in the previous notebook).
- f. 127. 'Zarathrustra' (passage in pencil marked 'Women's Chorus'). Beneath, under the heading (ink) 'Modern Requiem', a short score notation of a passage from the closing section of Sea Drift, with words from the poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' by Walt Whitman ('O throat, O trembling throat'), continuing onto f. 127v (notes in ink, words in pencil).
- f. 127v. At the foot of the page, 'Nietzsche' (pencil), referring to the music (ink) that begins on f. 127v and continues onto f. 128 (cf. A Mass of Life).
- f. 128v. The heading 'Modern Requiem' is struck-through (by pencil) and 'Dowson' (pencil) is written alongside.
- f. 129. 'Sea drift' in the right margin, and 'Chimeres & Realities' at the foot of the page (the latter title also appears over an unfinished short-score sketch in MS Mus. 1745/1/39, f. 64).
- f. 130. The ink heading 'Modern Requiem' is overwritten by 'Mittags' (pencil), the page containing a sketch for A Mass of Life (the later sections of II/4).
- f. 130v. Headed with the titles of two poems by Whitman (to which Delius has added definite articles): 'The Song of Myself' and 'The Song of the Open Road'. Accompanied by a Whitmanesque title of Delius's devising: 'The Song of my Life'.
- f. 132. At the foot of the page, 'Zarathustra' is written beneath the bell motive.
- f. 133v. 'Lento molto', 2/2 (unidentified harmonic skeleton follows).
- f. 134v. Half-way down the page, 'Cynara' and 'I cried for madder music' (words to final verse).
- f. 135. Headed 'Concerto' (but not the music of the published work).
- f. 135v. Headed 'Cynara' and 'I cried for madder music'.
- ff. 136v-137. Headed (in red crayon across both pages): 'The song of the sea The song of the woods The song of the night'. The ink draft beneath is not otherwise known.
- f. 137v. A 16-bar melody that appears to be in the hand (pencil) of Jelka Delius (as amanuensis?)
- f. 138. Blank.
- f. 138v. A few bars of harmonic progression characteristic of the mature Delius (cf. 'Little Birdie', Two Song for Children).
- On the inside back cover, a London address in pencil which includes 'Gloucester Place'.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016914
033-002739614
036-002747144
040-002747306 - 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. 1745/2/11/4 : Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 4 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002016914[0003]/033-002739614[0011]/036-002747144[0004]/040-002747306
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (folios 125-139)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1904
- End Date:
- 1923
- Date Range:
- [1904]-[1920s]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- A 'home-made' notebook (sewn) covered in brown paper turned-in (12 ff, 12-stave paper 135 x 175 mm.).
- Publications:
- The notebook has been published in facsimile: Robert Threlfall (ed.), A Musical Notebook: Frederick Delius (London: Delius Trust, 1993).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Original foliation: 1 notebook (12 ff. + i)
- Subjects:
- Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Cynara
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Messe des Lebens
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Sea drift