Dance for Harpsichord Publisher
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This curious work was the product of Delius securing an introduction to the renowned harpsichordist Violet Gordon Woodhouse. In the opinion of Lee-Browne and Guinery, the work is only successful when transferred to piano, as 'the harpsichord favours uncluttered textures, underpinned by harmony that alters relatively infrequently, and it is therefore unsuited to Delius's style and keyboard technique, with its swiftly changing chromaticism and densely voiced chords demanding to be sustained.' (Martin Lee-Browne and Paul Guinery, Delius and his Music (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014), 397-8). The various fragmentary sketches, according to Threlfall, suggest that the melody used predates the finished work by a considerable period (RT.1986, 115).

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On a page of notes headed 'American Suite', the melody of the Dance for Harpsichord is noted down, with additional sketch material for the work at a later point in the same manuscript. 

 notated music manuscript autograph score sketch fragment Frederick Delius British Library London GB-Lbl MS Mus. 1745/2/10 Sketch material

Amid sketch material for two other works (Fantastic Dance and an unfinished piano work), material for the Dance for Harpsichord.

 notated music manuscript autograph score sketch fragment Frederick Delius British Library London GB-Lbl MS Mus. 1745/2/9 Sketch

A single folio of sketch material, crossed through and headed by Fenby: 'Dance for Harpsichord rejected sketch'.

 notated music manuscript autograph score sketch British Library London GB-Lbl MS Mus. 1745/1/39 Autograph score

Delius's autograph score in black ink, with some pencil markings and corrections, headed 'With graceful dance movement, rather quick'.

 notated music manuscript autograph score fair copy complete Frederick Delius British Library London GB-Lbl Add. MS 50497 Autograph score, copy Evlyn Howard-Jones notated music manuscript copy score fair copy Delius Trust London Acc. 208 Published score

Published in Music & Letters I/1 (January 1920), pp. 73-5, entitled 'Harpsichord piece, composed for Mrs. Gordon Woodhouse, 1919. With graceful dance movement, rather quick'.

 notated music print score first edition complete Engraved score Universal Edition Wien 1922

The first engraved edition contains minor changes to the first publication in Music & Letters. It was transferred to Boosey & Hawkes in 1939. This item was reissued as part of the Collected Edition vol. 33, Works for Piano Solo.

 notated music print score later edition complete

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