The Song of the High Hills Publisher
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As Threlfall notes, he wrote in a letter of 1920: 'I have tried to express the joy and exhilaration one feels in the Mountains & also the loneliness & melancholy of the high Solitudes & the grandeur of the wide far distances. The human voices represent man in Nature: an episode, which becomes fainter & then disappears altogether' (RT.1986, 39). </p> </annot> </notesStmt> <classification xml:id="classification_bdd860ab"> <termList xml:id="termList_cc04d202"> <term xml:id="term_b7c309f3">Vocal music</term> <term xml:id="term_493a397a">Voices and orchestra</term> </termList> </classification> <expressionList xml:id="expressionList_25fbbd41"> <expression xml:id="expression_6dc42bc8"> <title xml:id="title_efdcfa0b" xml:lang="en"/> <incip xml:id="incip_0cb5571d"> <graphic label="" target="https://delius.music.ox.ac.uk/incipits/delius/voices_and_orchestra/delius_thesongofthehighhills.png" targettype="lowres" xml:id="graphic_3d914f36"/> </incip> <creation xml:id="creation_282bc62f"> <date xml:id="date_3621334c"/> <geogName xml:id="geogName_29350a03"/> </creation> <history xml:id="history_2fc063d6"> <p/> </history> <perfMedium analog="marc:048" auth="" xml:id="perfMedium_adb7269e"> <instrumentation xml:id="instrumentation_fd9cef34"> <instrVoiceGrp code="oa" xml:id="instrVoiceGrp_49f3cfba"> <head xml:id="head_175c091d">Orchestra </head> <instrVoice code="wa" count="2" xml:id="instrVoice_a0a143d7">fl.</instrVoice> <instrVoice code="jf" count="1" solo="false" xml:id="instrVoice_fbd026e0">picc.fl.</instrVoice> <instrVoice code="wb" count="2" xml:id="instrVoice_5f3d8daf">ob.</instrVoice> <instrVoice code="wf" count="1" solo="false" xml:id="instrVoice_ed1f561a">cor.ingl.</instrVoice> <instrVoice code="wc" count="3" xml:id="instrVoice_961eda52">cl.</instrVoice> <instrVoice code="wg" count="1" solo="false" xml:id="instrVoice_27cbe6d0">cl.b.</instrVoice> <instrVoice code="wd" count="3" xml:id="instrVoice_ede28d21">fg.</instrVoice> <instrVoice code="jd" count="1" solo="false" xml:id="instrVoice_caffc3b2">sarr. 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Contained in a notebook carried by Delius on holidays from 1887 until the turn of the century are 'fragments which can be regarded as germ material for The Song of the High Hills' (RL, 133).

 notated music manuscript autograph sketch British Library London GB-Lbl MS Mus. 1745/1/38 Sketch material

Miscellaneous sketches for the work, including several full score sketches marked by Eric Fenby as 'rejected'. 

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

Short-score pencil sketches including a draft of the middle section and early versions of music from other sections. Inscribed by Eric Fenby: 'A sketch strip of "The Song of the High Hills" carried by Delius on his walking tours in Norway - Eric Fenby to Franz Holford, 1948'.

 notated music manuscript autograph short score sketch British Library London GB-Lbl MS Mus. 1823 Sketch material

Several sketches for the work, all annotated by Fenby as material for The Song of the High Hills. 

 notated music manuscript autograph sketch Grainger Museum Melbourne AUS-PVgm MG C2/DELI-27-2-1 Sketches and drafts

This manuscript contains various sketches and several draft scores in ink and pencil. Interestingly, the work is given various titles, including 'Mountain Sounds', 'Songs of Nature' and 'The Song of the Mountains'. See Threlfall's comments in RT.1986, 39. 

 notated music manuscript autograph draft British Library London GB-Lbl MS Mus. 1745/2/13/5 Published score F.E.C. Leuckart Leipzig 1915

The first edition for Leuckart was transferred to Universal Edition in 1921, with several subsequent reissues. 

 notated music print score first edition complete Delius Trust London

Beecham's copy bears his performance indications. 

 Collected Edition Thomas Beecham Universal Edition London 1986

A new engraving of the work, constituting vol. 11b of the Collected Edition

 notated music print score later edition complete

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