I-Brasîl

DCW 112
RT V/28
DCE 19

Composer: Frederick Delius
Author: Fiona Macleod
Translator: Jelka Rosen

Setting of lines from Macleod's The Hour of Beauty. The title refers to an old Irish legendary country in the Atlantic.

Composition: 1913.

Instrumentation: pf.
Soloist: voice

Text incipit: 'There's sorrow on the wind, my grief'
'Liegt Trauer auf dem Wind, mein Gram'

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Jelka Delius's copy

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, copy, score, engraver's copy, complete]

Autograph unlocated. This copy in Jelka Delius's hand in black ink, with a pasted over correction on page 2.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/4/5. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Philip Heseltine's copy

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

Ink copy in the hand of Philip Heseltine

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

British Library source record

Published score

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

Tischer & Jagenberg, Cologne 1915.

Published as no. 3 of Fünf Gesänge, English and German words. Transferred to Oxford University Press in 1930, appearing re-engraved in A Book of Songs with that publisher in 1969, English words only.

Collected Edition

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

Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York 1987.

Included in vol. 19 of the Collected Edition: Nineteen Songs.

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