Fantastic Dance

DCW 44
RT VI/28
DCE 27b

Composer: Frederick Delius
Scribe: Eric Fenby
Dedicatee: Eric Fenby

Fantastic Dance was completed with the assistance of Fenby. The whole-tone opening was derived from a brief sketch in a notebook containing material from c. 1920-4, while the middle section was developed from an earlier pencil draft by Delius. Threlfall has written of this section: 'No example of their joint work is more fascinating, nor more skilful, than the evolution of this typical 6/8 section from a 3/4-2/4 draft and its characteristic orchestration; nothing more appropriate than [Delius's] subsequent dedication of the finished work to his young collaborator' (RT.1986, 91).

Composition: 1931.

Instrumentation:

Orchestra : 2 fl., 2 ob., cor.ingl., 2 cl. in B flat, 2 fg., 4 cor. in F, 2 tr. in C, 3 trb., tb., timp., cym., glsp., arp., str.

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Sketch material

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, short score, sketch]

Note for the first two bars of Fantastic Dance.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/2/11/6. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Draft score

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, draft, fragment]

This item contains i) autograph pencil draft of the first 20 bars and ii) pencil short-score sketch material for the middle section.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/2/9. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Authorized full score

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, score, fair copy, complete]

Scribe: Eric Fenby

This item contains the full score and a piano-conductor score, both in the hand of Fenby.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/3/16. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Piano-conductor score

[Classification: notated music, print, score and parts, first edition, complete]

Hawkes & Son, London 1933.

Fenby's piano-conductor score and the parts were published in this edition, but not the full score.

Collected Edition

[Classification: notated music, print, score, later edition, complete]

Hawkes & Son, London 1987.

Performances

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