MS Mus. 1745/2/13/3

(1). ff. 1-117. Margot la Rouge (sketches and draft scores)

Threlfall, I/7.

• ff. 1-3. Fragmentary sketches, comprising 1 folio and 1 bifolium (12-stave, 290 x 235 mm.). Two-stave pencil sketches. Annotations include: 'good', 'Margot motif', 'Lili Beguin', and 'Margot's song of woods'.
• ff. 4-40. Complete pencil draft short score, pp. 1-73, on a variety of paper. French words. The final page (p. 73) is in the form of a photocopy - the original folio is bound into MS Mus. 1745/1/39 as f. 66.
• ff. 41-85. Complete pencil draft full score, comprising title-page and pp. 1-85 (and three blank pages following). Drafted on 36-stave paper, 542 x 350 mm. 1 folio (title-page) and 22 bifolia with an additional folio (p. 59) inserted to replace deleted p. 59. The title-page is signed by the composer and dated: 'Commencé le 7 Avril - terminé le 6 Juin / 1902'. Title: 'Margot la Rouge / Drame Lyric / Karl Rosenval [written in another hand] / Frederick Delius'. Scene I (p. 5); Scene II (p. 12); Scene III (p. 18); Scene IV (p. 28); Scene V (p. 45); Scene VI (p. 55); Scene VII (p. 66); Scene VIII (p. 85), 'Rideau', 'Fin'.
• ff. 86-117. Exercise book (sewn) containing the libretto translated into Italian. 265 x 210 mm. Mottled green covers with title label (stamped '87') to the front: '"Paulo audacior..." / Margot la Rossa / traduzione Italiana'. 29 numbered leaves, text written on rectos only, preceded by 'Personaggi'.

For 'Margot La Rossa' (final full score, ink), see MS Mus. 1745/2/13/6.

(2). A Mass of Life (sketches and draft scores)

Threlfall, II/4.

(a) ff. 118-133. Sketches, comprising 2 ink manuscript strips (on a variety of paper).

(b) Fragmentary pencil draft short score, with German text (mainly on 14-stave paper, 350 x 270 mm.), comprising:

• f. 134. 'O Du mein Wille' - this draft exceptionally in ink.
• ff. 135-136. Also 'Du mein Wille'.
• ff. 137-138. 'Erhebt eure Herzen'.
• ff. 139-160. An extensive pencil draft for I/3, paginated 1-4, 5-8, 9-15 (15 duplicated), 9-12, 13-16, 17-20, 21-23 (23 duplicated), 24-27, 28-31, 32-35.
• ff. 161-162. pp. 34 ('directly after Mittags'), 35, 32 (page struck-through), 36 (= I/4).
• ff. 163-166. pp. 37 ('directly before Mitternachtslied' = II/2), 38-40, 41-42. pp. 42 and un-numbered facing page are struck-through pencil sketches for 'Double Chorus' (II/1). Following page blank.
• ff. 167-172. pp. 1-[12]. 'Nachtlied' (ink and pencil), with p. 9 struck-through ('Zarathustra').
• ff. 173-174. pp. 1, [2], [3], 4 (20-stave 337 x 268 mm.). Choral score of II/1.
• ff. 175-178. pp. 5-8 and 9-12 are II/4, ending (p. 12) 'here follows Süsse Leier'.
• ff. 179-181. pp. 1-5. 'Trunken Süsse Leier' (= II/5). (The verso of p. 3 is paginated p. 5 and struck-through.)
• f. 181-182. Including a folio headed 'Prelude' (18-stave 350 x 270 mm.), a pencil sketch for II/6.
• ff. 183-186. pp. 4, 6, 5 are also sketches for II/6, on the outer pages of 2 bifolia. The inner material (ink) of the bifolia is unrelated, and includes the heading 'Symphony'.

(c) ff. 187-236. Pencil draft full score (incomplete) comprising 25 bifolia and 2 folios, 36-stave 543 x 350 mm. The draft does not include material for II/3 or II/6.

• Heading (p. [1]): 'Eine Messe des Lebens für Orchester, Sopr. Alt. Tenor / & Baritone Solo & Doppelt Chor'.
• pp. [1]-20 and 2 blank pages (= I/1-2). 'Con fervore' (p. 1); 'Maestoso / Marcia poco piu lento / as many harps as possible' (p. 5); 'Erhebt eure Herzen / Recitativo' (p. 14).
• pp. [1]-43. 'Tanzlied' (p. [1]) for I/3; 'V/Nachtlied' (p. 29) for I/5; 'fuller orchestration' (p. 33); 'IV Wehe mir wo ist die Zeit hin (Zarathustra & Chorus)' (p. 37) for I/4; 'Nachtlied folgt' (p. 43) = end of I/4. The verso of p. 43 is blank.
• pp. [1]-9. 'II Partie' (p. [1]); 'Piu tranquillo, meno mosso' (p. 4); 'Dal Segno' (p. 9). A blank page follows.
• pp. 1-26. 'Mittags' (p. 1) for II/4; 'Süsse Leier' (p. 12) for II/2; on p. 16, II/2 ends ('Orchestral interlude/prelude'), followed by 'No. 8 [II/5] Gottes Weh ist tiefer'; the draft ends on p. 26 ('without stopping to Mitternachtslied'). The final two pages are blank.

In addition:

• f. 237. Folio headed 'Geschichte Der Jungling, der Gewissenhaften & die Tanzenden Mädchen', with very faint but illegible traces of scoring in pencil beneath and on the verso. 36-stave 450 x 318 mm.
• f. 238. Folio with pencilled scoring (ink clefs) leading to fanfares for 3 trumpets alternating with 3 horns (cf. the introduction to II/1). 36-stave 450 x 328 mm.
• ff. 239-240. 1 bifolium containing a pencil draft for cues 132-135. 36-stave paper cut down to 31 staves, now 453 x 350 mm.
• ff. 241-246. 3 bifolia (36-stave 450 x 328 mm., first and second bifolia pasted together), pp. 1-9 with a blank un-numbered page following p. 5, comprising the original introduction to A Mass of Life. Entitled 'Eine Messe des Lebens / (In Memoriam)' With signature and date: 'Frederick Delius / 1905'. The work commences 'Lento con Solemnità', F major C. Part of this music can be recognized in the final score in the opening chorus, six bars preceding cue 4. For the remainder of the autograph full score to which these 3 bifolia are the introduction, see the two volumes MS Mus. 1745/2/13/7-8.