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MS Mus. 1745/3/5/1

Record Id:

040-002750010

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002016914

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100022814149.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1745/3/5/1

Title:

Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act I (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby)

Scope & Content:

Act I of the score from which Sir Thomas Beecham conducted, 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout.

Title-page (un-numbered), with descriptive introduction in pencil to Scene I on the verso, and pp. [1]-69, followed by 1 blank page.

Note by Fenby at the foot of the title-page: 'This score was compiled from the parts by Eric Fenby at Grez-sur-Loing in 1928-29'.

Scored in black ink on 32-stave 444 x 310 mm.

English words were first pencilled-in from the original version, then altered and inked-in (for the most part) in accord with the revised libretto.

f. 8. Pasted-over correction of Viola and Cello parts (2 bars).
f. 11. Pasted-over corrections of Trombones I, II, III parts (3 rest bars).
f. 12. Pasted-down addition of Bass part (4 bars) as 33rd stave.
f. 19. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts, as 33rd and 34th staves.
f. 21. Pasted-over correction of the instrument names in the left margin.
f. 26. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves).
f. 28. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves).
f. 29. Pasted-down addition of Bass part (33rd stave)
f. 31. Pasted-over correction of three instrument names in the left margin.
f. 33. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves).
f. 39. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves).
f. 41. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves).
f. 42. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves).
f. 48. Pasted-down addition of Flutes I, II, III parts (as added 1st and 2nd staves)
f. 49. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (35th and 36th staves).
f. 51. Pasted-down addition of Flutes I, II, III parts (as added 1st and 2nd staves).
f. 52. Pasted-over correction of Palmyre voice part (4 bars).
f. 53. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (35th and 36th staves).
f. 54. Pasted-down addition of Flutes I, II, III parts (as added 1st and 2nd staves).
f. 55. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (35th and 36th staves).
f. 57. Pasted-down addition of Piccolo and Flutes I and II parts (as added 1st and 2nd staves).
f. 58. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (35th and 36th staves).
f. 59. Pasted-over correction of Bass Tuba part (1 bar).

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Music Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002016914
033-002749006
036-002750001
040-002750010

Is part of:

MS Mus. 1745 : Frederick Delius: Music manuscripts from the collection of the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/3 : Frederick Delius: Boosey & Hawkes Accessions to the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/3/5 : Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby)

MS Mus. 1745/3/5/1 : Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act I (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby)

Hierarchy:

032-002016914[0004]/033-002749006[0005]/036-002750001[0001]/040-002750010

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume (61 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1928

End Date:

1929

Date Range:

1928-1929

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Volume dimensions: 445 x 315 mm.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Fenby, Eric, composer and amanuensis, 1906-1997

Subjects:

Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Koanga (Opera)