A Song of Summer

DCW 42
RT VI/26
DCE 27b

Composer: Frederick Delius
Scribe: Eric Fenby

A Song of Summer was composed with the assistance of Eric Fenby in 1929. As discussed in relation to Poem of Life and Love, material from that work was reused in A Song of Summer, to the extent that portions of the first fair copy of the latter are pages from the autograph score of the former (RL, 99). However, new material was composed in the middle section. Threlfall provides an approximate guide to the extent of overlap of material, suggesting that bb. 16-55, 64-7, 72-6, and 90-146 of A Song of Summer as published come from Poem of Life and Love, while the remainder of the 155 bars were newly dictated (RT.1986, 89).

Is related to:

Poem of Life and Love

Composition: 1929.

Instrumentation:

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

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Authorized sketch material

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, sketch]

Scribe: Eric Fenby

Sketch material in Fenby's hand, headed 'opening muted strings' and 'Sketch opening bars'.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/2/5. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Authorized sketch material

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

Scribe: Eric Fenby

Short-score pencil sketches in Fenby's hand, the first headed 'strings shimmering on the bridge'.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/2/8. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Authorized draft material

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

Scribe: Eric Fenby

This item contains i) ink and pencil sketches in the hand of Fenby, each marked 'sketch for Song of Summer (1929), dictated to Eric Fenby' and ii) incomplete first fair copy of A Song of Summer, headed 'A Song of Summer. Copy of MSS by Eric Fenby'. Pages 12-17 of Fenby's score are missing. Pages 12-15 were donated to the Bodleian (see sources for Poem of Life and Love), and pp. 16 and 17, as part of the autograph score of Poem and Life and Love, have been restored to that manuscript.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/1/31. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Authorized full score

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

Scribe: Eric Fenby

Title page: A Song of Summer|by Frederick Delius|1929

Bearing the authority of an autograph score, this final version in Fenby's hand consists of the full score in ink, with numerous pasted-over amendments.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/1/33. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Stichvorlage

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

Scribe: Eric Fenby

Carl S. Swisher Library, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

Collected Edition

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

Editor: Eric Fenby

Winthrop Rogers, London 1931; 1987.

The Collected Edition in this instance is a reissue of the original Winthrop Rogers edition, with a few additional dynamics added by Eric Fenby.

Performances

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