MS Mus. 1745/2/12/1

(1). ff. 1-6. Prelude [1931] to the opera, full score in the hand (black ink) of Eric Fenby. Based on four themes from the opera, using parts of the Preludes to Acts 1 and 3.

• Threlfall, VI/27.
• Performance: 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House. Performed as an Interlude in Act III of Koanga, cond. Beecham.
• Publication: 1938, Boosey & Hawkes (Hawkes Concert Edition), full score 8000, pp. 11.
• 2 bifolia within an outer bifolia, each 24-stave oblong 270 x 340 mm.
• Outer title page, in capitals: 'Prelude / to the / Opera / Irmelin // Frederick Delius'.
• On the verso of the title-page, and on the inside back cover, are faint pencil workings.
• The two inner bifolia are paginated pp. 1-7, where the score finishes, the verso of which [p. 8] is blank.
• The score includes dynamics and other markings in blue pencil by Beecham.

(2). ff. 7-63. Irmelin Act 1 (autograph full score in black ink, bound).

• Threlfall, I/2.
• 112 numbered pages, of which the first 7 pages (the introduction) are counted but not numbered, and occluded pp. [8] and [9] are pasted together. Scene I begins on p. 10, the first page that is numbered.
• Scene II, p. 44 (bar 249).
• Scene III, p. 48 (bar 291).
• Scene IV, p. 53 (bar 347).
• Scene V, p. 61 (bar 418).
• Scene VI, p. 81 (bar 524).
• End of Act 1, p. 112 (bar 692).
• The score includes Beecham's dynamics [1953] and other markings in blue pencil, and bar numbers in the hand (pencil) of George Brownfoot.
• Cuts are indicated by Beecham (blue pencil) for bars 28-31, 38-42, and 610-614.