MS Mus. 1745/3/9

Full score (black ink) in the hand of Eric Fenby.

For baritone voice and orchestra. First drafted in 1907 (noted on p. 1 of the score) and originally intended for inclusion in Songs of Sunset. Completed in 1929, with the assistance of Eric Fenby.

Threlfall, III/5.

• 32-stave 448 x 310 mm.
• Title-page, verso blank (except for very brief engraver's notes in pencil), and pp. 1-20, followed by 6 blank un-numbered pages.
• This score was the publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright notice (1931) in red ink on the title-page.
• f. 2r. Added by Jelka Delius at the head of the page: 'Dedicated to the memory of Philip Heseltine'.
• English words by Ernest Dowson ('Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno'), with German words by Jelka Delius, and in her hand, in red ink beneath.
• f. 11r shows evidence of the original ending having been scratched-out and over-written. Rachel Lowe (1986, p. 104): '[Cynara] was performed at the 1929 [Delius] Festival but in a version eight bars shorter than the present one. On returning to Grez after the Festival, Delius, at Eric Fenby's instigation added the present eight-bar ending.'
• For a fair copy also in Fenby's hand, and with Sir Thomas Beecham's blue pencil markings throughout, see MS Mus. 1745/1/33. Beecham's editing has been incorporated by Fenby into this score in preparation for engraving.