Sketch
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, short score, sketch, fragment]
Sketch material for 'The March of Spring'.
Draft score
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, draft]
This manuscript contains i) various sketches within a bifolium wrapper bearing the title 'Woodlands, meadows & moors.|Dance|1914|North Country Sketches ii) a draft score entitled 'Autumn. The wind sounds in the Forest' iii) a draft score entitled 'Winter Landscape 1913' iv) a draft score entitled 'Slow Dance' v) a draft score for part of the fourth movement and vi) a further draft of the first movement, entitled 'The wind sounds in the forest' and dated 1913.
Autograph score
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, fair copy, complete]
Title page: North Country Sketches|a) Autumn|The wind sounds in the trees|b) Winter Landscape|c) Dance|d) The March of Spring [added in a hand resembling that of Philip Heseltine]|(Woodlands. meadows & silent moors)|Frederick Delius|1914|Grez sur Loing|(Seine & Marne)
The manuscript contains dynamic markings added in blue pencil. While these resemble Thomas Beecham's usual additions, they have not been definitely identified as Beecham's by any previous cataloguer.
Proof sheets
[Classification: notated music, print, score]
Augener, London 1922.
These proof-sheets contain corrections not made in the published score.
GB-Lbl (British Library, London) H.403.g.
Published score
[Classification: notated music, print, score, first edition, complete]
Augener, London 1923.
Thomas Beecham's copy
Beecham's copy bears his usual performance markings in blue crayon.
Delius Trust, London.
Collected Edition
[Classification: notated music, print, score, later edition, complete]
Editor: Thomas Beecham
Stainer & Bell, London 1986.
This edition incorporates Beecham's performance markings, as well as corrections already incorporated into a study score published by Stainer & Bell in 1976.
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