On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Introducing a Norwegian Folksong

Beim ersten Kuckucksruf im Frühling

DCW 35
RT VI/19
DCE 27a

Composer: Frederick Delius

Contained in:

Two Pieces for Small Orchestra

Is related to:

Summer Night on the River

Composition: 1912.

Instrumentation:

Orchestra : fl., ob., 2 cl., 2 fg., 2 cor., str.

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Sketch material

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

A 15-bar sketch consisting of a rejected harmonization of the Norwegian melody used as the basis of On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) 1745/1/39. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Draft score

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

Title page: The draft bears the heading: Spring On hearing the ^first Cuccoo for the first time|in Spring|Introducing a norwegian tune.

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

British Library source record

Draft full score

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

This draft score bears the inscription 'FIRST PENCIL SKETCH OF "ON HEARING THE FIRST CUCKOO IN SPRING" IN DELIUS' HANDWRITING'. Eric Fenby, 23rd Sept. 1948'.

AUS-PvGM (Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne) MG C2/DELI-17-3. Link to external resource

Grainger Museum catalogue

Collected Edition

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

Editor: Thomas Beecham

Stainer & Bell, London 1988.

Published original piano draft

[Classification: notated music, print, piano score]

Transcriber: Robert Threlfall

Thames Publishing, London 1999.

Score and parts

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

Tewkesbury, Goodmusic Publishing 2006.

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