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MS Mus. 1745/4/3
- Record Id:
- 040-002755933
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016914
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022950567.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1745/4/3
- Title:
- Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): 'Two Songs for Children' and 'The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls'
- Scope & Content:
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Manuscript fair copies, in the hand of Jelka Delius, prepared in 1923 for publication in the Oxford Choral Song series (1924).
1. f. 1, 'Two Songs for Children': 'I. Little Birdie'
- 14-stave 340 x 270 mm. 1 bifolium: 2 pages of music, and 2 blank pages.
- For voice with pianoforte accompaniment.
- Scored in black ink, words in pencil, with Tonic Sol-fa (black ink) added by the publisher.
- Words by Alfred Tennyson ('What does little birdie say / In her nest at peep of day?') from Sea Dreams (1860).
- With 'Note to Engraver' (red ink) along the right margin of the first page regarding the layout.
- Delius Trust Accession No. 158/1.
- For the composer's autograph draft of this song, see MS Mus. 1745/1/39 (f. 82r).
- Threlfall, V/29.
2. ff. 2-3, 'Two Songs for Children': 'II. The Streamlet's Slumber Song'
- 14-stave 340 x 270 mm. 1 bifolium: 3 pages of music, and 1 blank page.
- For voice with pianoforte accompaniment.
- Scored in black ink, words in pencil, with Tonic Sol-fa (black ink ) added by the publisher.
- The words are unattributed.
- Delius Trust Accession No. 158/2.
- For the composer's autograph draft of this song, see MS Mus. 1745/1/39 (f. 81v).
- Threlfall, V/29.
3. ff. 4-7, 'The Splendour falls on Castle Walls'
- 14-stave 340 x 270 mm. 2 bifolia, pp. 1-7, and 1 blank page.
- For unaccompanied mixed voices (S.C.T.B.).
- Words and music in black ink.
- Words by Alfred Tennyson: The Princess (1847), Canto 4.
- Delius Trust Accession No. 158/3.
- For the original dictation of this song to JD (including 12 bars short-score sketch in Delius's late hand), see MS Mus. 1745/2/5 ('Various Dictations to Jelka Delius').
- Threlfall, IV/6.
- Performance: 17 June 1924, London, Aeolian Hall, Oriana Madrigal Society, cond. Charles Kennedy Scott.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016914
033-002755888
040-002755933 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1745 : Frederick Delius: Music manuscripts from the collection of the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/4 : Frederick Delius: Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/4/3 : Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): 'Two Songs for Children' and 'The Splendour Falls on… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002016914[0005]/033-002755888[0003]/040-002755933
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (7 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1923
- End Date:
- 1923
- Date Range:
- [1923]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
- Manuscripts given to the Delius Trust in 1978 by Mrs D. Sparkles, née Foss. Delius Trust Accession Nos. 158/1-3.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson, poet, 1809-1892
- Subjects:
- Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Songs for children. Little birdie
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Songs for children. Streamlet's slumber song
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Splendour falls on castle walls