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The software used to produce the log-frequency-axis [[spectrograms]] used here was written specially for the WikiDelia.
Here is all of Delia's music and effects that I have managed to recover so far, in as close as I know to the order in which she created them.


If you are studying a piece of Delia's music for which I haven't done the spectrogram yet, or if you'd like spectrograms of your own music, you can [mailto:delia.derbyshire.net@gmail.com write] and I'll do it.
The software used to produce the graphics here was written specially for the WikiDelia and is described on the page [[Spectrograms]].


==Undated==
==Undated==
===[[Air]]===
===[[Air]]===
Created before March 1967, as that's when it was included on [[BBC Radiophonic Music]].<ref name=TRW6641/>
{{Spectrogallery|Air}}
{{Spectrogallery|Air}}
===[[Music to Undress to]]===
===[[Music to Undress to]]===
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{{Listenbutton|Music to Undress to}}
{{Listenbutton|Music to Undress to}}
===[[The Delian Mode]]===
===[[The Delian Mode]]===
Created before March 1967, as that's when it was included on [[BBC Radiophonic Music]].<ref name=TRW6641>[[TRW 6641]]: Tracks for [[BBC Radiophonic Music]].</ref>
{{Spectrogallery|The Delian Mode}}
{{Spectrogallery|The Delian Mode}}


==1962==
==1962==
Under UK law, all audio recordings made before 1963 are in the public domain.<ref name=OMAFAQ>[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/faq.php The Open Music Archive's FAQ].</ref>
=== [[Time On Our Hands]]===
=== [[Time On Our Hands]]===
{{Spectrogallery|Time On Our Hands}}
{{Spectrogallery|Time On Our Hands}}
=== [[City Music]]===
=== [[City Music]]===
{{Spectrogallery|City Music}}
{{Spectrogallery|City Music}}
===[[Factory Music]]===
{{Spectrogallery|Factory Music}}
=== [[Arabic Science and Industry]] ===
=== [[Arabic Science and Industry]] ===
{{Spectrogallery|Arabic Science and Industry}}
{{Spectrogallery|Arabic Science and Industry}}
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* Ship takeoff and outro
* Ship takeoff and outro
{{Spectrogallery|Closed Planet - Ship takeoff and outro}}
{{Spectrogallery|Closed Planet - Ship takeoff and outro}}
===[[Mattachin]]===
From [[BBC Radiophonic Music]]<BR>
{{Spectrogallery|Mattachin}}


==1963==
==1963==
=== [[Doctor Who]] ===
=== [[Know Your Car]] ===<!-- Created before June 1963 -->
{{Spectrogallery|Know Your Car}}
=== [[Radio Newsreel]] ===<!-- "Work to start 26th July 1963" -->
{{Spectrogallery|Radio Newsreel}}
=== [[Doctor Who]] ===<!-- Composed after 26.7.63 -->
{{Spectrogallery|Doctor Who}}
{{Spectrogallery|Doctor Who}}
=== [[Know Your Car]] ===
{{Spectrogallery|Know Your Car}}


==1964==
==1964==
===[[Mattachin]]===
From [[BBC Radiophonic Music]]
{{Spectrogallery|Mattachin}}
=== [[Talk Out]] ===
=== [[Talk Out]] ===
{{Spectrogallery|Talk Out}}
{{Spectrogallery|Talk Out}}
=== [[Science and Health]] ===
=== [[Science and Health]] ===
From [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21]]
From [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21]]<BR>
{{Spectrogallery|Science and Health}}
{{Spectrogallery|Science and Health}}
=== [[The Cyprian Queen]] ===
=== [[The Cyprian Queen]] ===
* Clip from [[Wee Have Also Sound Houses]]
Clip from [[Wee Have Also Sound Houses]]<BR>
{{Listenbutton|The Cyprian Queen - clip from Wee Have Also Sound Houses}}
{{Spectrogallery|The Cyprian Queen - clip from Wee Have Also Sound Houses}}


=== [[The Anger of Achilles]] ===
=== [[The Anger of Achilles]] ===
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==1965==
==1965==
=== Invention for Radio #3: [[The Afterlife]] ===
=== Invention for Radio #3: [[The Afterlife]] ===
Recorded from the radio [[File:The Afterlife.ogg]]
Recorded from the radio
with
[[File:The Afterlife.ogg]]
* 1. "Death is going from shadow into reality" (7:47)
with tracks
* 2. "It's just like going to sleep" (11:09)
==== 1. "Death is going from shadow into reality" (7:47) ====
* 3. "Light. Everywhere is light." (10:30)
{{Spectrogallery|The Afterlife - 1}}
* 4. "Death is just a changing" (10:14)
==== 2. "It's just like going to sleep" (11:09) ====
{{Spectrogallery|The Afterlife - 2}}
==== 3. "Light. Everywhere is light." (10:30) ====
{{Spectrogallery|The Afterlife - 3}}
==== 4. "Death is just a changing" (10:14) ====
{{Spectrogallery|The Afterlife - 4}}


=== Invention for Radio #4: [[The Evenings of Certain Lives]] ===
=== Invention for Radio #4: [[The Evenings of Certain Lives]] ===
* [[Sculptress of Sound]] clip 1 [[File:The Evenings of Certain Lives (clip 1).ogg]]
We only have excerpts and one of the movements
* [[Sculptress of Sound]] clip 2 [[File:The Evenings of Certain Lives (clip 2).ogg]]
====Time====
[[Sculptress of Sound]] clip 1<BR>
{{Spectrogallery|The Evenings of Certain Lives (clip 1)}}
[[Sculptress of Sound]] clip 2<BR>
{{Spectrogallery|The Evenings of Certain Lives (clip 2)}}
====Seeing====
{{Spectrogallery|The Evenings of Certain Lives - Seeing}}


===[[Oranges and Lemons]]===
===[[Oranges and Lemons]]===
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==1966==
==1966==
===[[Ape and Essence]]===                    <!-- Entry date 1 Feb 1966, Score is dated 6th March 1966, droadcast 18th May 1966 -->
Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano
[[File:Ape - Hunt Group A.ogg]]
===[[Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO]]===
===[[Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO]]===
From [[BBC Radiophonic Music]]
From [[BBC Radiophonic Music]]<BR>
{{Spectrogallery|Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO}}
{{Spectrogallery|Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO}}


===[[Moogies Bloogies]]===
===[[Moogies Bloogies]]===
From delia-derbyshire.org
From delia-derbyshire.org<BR>
{{Spectrogallery|Moogies Bloogies}}
{{Spectrogallery|Moogies Bloogies}}


===[[Way Out]]===
===[[Way Out]]===
From [[Music from The Tomorrow People]]
From [[Music from The Tomorrow People]]<BR>
{{Spectrogallery|Way Out}}
{{Spectrogallery|Way Out}}


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==1967==
==1967==


===[[Happy Birthday]]===
===[[A New View of Politics]]===             <!-- BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21 says it is from 1966 -->
Score is dated "3.67"; first broadcast on 30th April 1968.
                                              <!-- Entry date: 1st January 1967, first broadcast 5th February 1967 -->
{{Spectrogallery|Happy Birthday}}
From [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21]]<BR>
 
===[[A New View of Politics]]===
From [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21]]
{{Spectrogallery|A New View of Politics}}
{{Spectrogallery|A New View of Politics}}


===[[Ape and Essence]]===
===[[Chromophone Band]]===                   <!-- Entry data: 1 Jan 1067, Tape reel 2 is dated 23 Feb 1967, broadcast between 11 March and 1 April 1967 -->
Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano [[File:Ape - Hunt Group A.ogg]]
===[[Chromophone Band]]===
{{Spectrogallery|Chromophone Band}}
{{Spectrogallery|Chromophone Band}}


===[[Towards Tomorrow]]===
===[[Happy Birthday]]===                     <!-- Score is dated "3.67"; first broadcast 30th April 1968 -->
{{Spectrogallery|Towards Tomorrow}}
{{Spectrogallery|Happy Birthday}}
===[[Blue Veils and Golden Sands]]===
 
===[[Blue Veils and Golden Sands]]===         <!-- Entry date Apr 1968, broadcast 30 June 1968 -->
{{Spectrogallery|Blue Veils and Golden Sands}}
{{Spectrogallery|Blue Veils and Golden Sands}}


===[[Macbeth (1967)]]===
===[[Macbeth (1967)]]===                     <!-- Opening night: 15th August 1967 -->
* A 49-second clip from [[These Hopeful Machines]] [[File:Macbeth (1967) clip 1.ogg]]
* A 49-second clip from [[These Hopeful Machines]] [[File:Macbeth (1967) clip 1.ogg]]
===[[It Was a Solid Killing Match]]===        <!-- Entry date: 1 Sep 1967, broadcast 19th October 1967 -->
====Intro====
{{Spectrogallery|It Was a Solid Killing Match - Intro}}
====It Was a Solid Killing Match====
{{Spectrogallery|It Was a Solid Killing Match}}
====Dissolvence====
{{Spectrogallery|It Was a Solid Killing Match - Dissolvence}}
====A Tremendous Artillery Crash====
{{Spectrogallery|It Was a Solid Killing Match - A Tremendous Artillery Crash}}
====Tel-el-Aqqaqir scene change====
{{Spectrogallery|It Was a Solid Killing Match - Tel-el-Aqqaqir scene change}}
====Rommel Smashed in Battle====
{{Spectrogallery|It Was a Solid Killing Match - Rommel Smashed in Battle}}
===[[Towards Tomorrow]]===                    <!-- entry date 1 Oct 1967, first broadcast 7th December 1967 -->
{{Spectrogallery|Towards Tomorrow}}
===[[Oedipus the King]]===                    <!-- "delia collaborated in 1967" according to Breege Brennan's thesis; the film was released 14 June 1968 -->
{{Spectrogallery|Oedipus the King - Intro}}


==1968==
==1968==
===[[Door To Door]]===
===[[Door To Door]]===
{{Spectrogallery|Door To Door}}
{{Spectrogallery|Door To Door}}


===[[Pot Au Feu]]===
===[[Pot Au Feu]]===
From [[BBC Radiophonic Music]]
From [[BBC Radiophonic Music]]<BR>
{{Spectrogallery|Pot Au Feu}}
{{Spectrogallery|Pot Au Feu}}


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===[[Great Zoos of the World]]===
===[[Great Zoos of the World]]===
From [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21]]
From [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21]]<BR>
{{Spectrogallery|Great Zoos of the World}}
{{Spectrogallery|Great Zoos of the World}}


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=== [[Music of Spheres]] ===
=== [[Music of Spheres]] ===
Completed shortly before 10th March 1970; first broadcast 4 November 1970
Completed shortly before 10th March 1970; first broadcast 4 November 1970<BR>
[[File:Music of Spheres.ogg]]
{{Spectrogallery|Music of Spheres}}
 
=== [[Petya's Dream]] ===
=== [[Petya's Dream]] ===
First broadcast 28th April 1970
First broadcast 28th April 1970.<BR>
[[File:Petya's Dream.ogg]]
{{Spectrogallery|Petya's Dream}}
 
=== [[Radio Solent]] ===
=== [[Radio Solent]] ===
[[File:Radio Solent.ogg]]
{{Spectrogallery|Radio Solent}}


==1971==
==1971==


=== [[Dance from Noah]] (Jan 1971) ===
=== [[Dance from Noah]] ===             <!-- Entry date: January 1971, published on EMSLP1 in 1971 -->
{{Spectrogallery|Dance from Noah}}
{{Spectrogallery|Dance from Noah}}


=== [[I.E.E.100]] (May 1971) ===
=== [[Tutankhamun's Egypt]] ===         <!-- Entry date: January 1971, broadcast 2nd April 1972 -->
* Clip 1 from [[Sculptress of Sound]] [[File:I.E.E.100 (clip 1).ogg]]
{{Spectrogallery|Tutankhamun's Egypt}}
* Clip 2 from [[Sculptress of Sound]] [[File:I.E.E.100 (clip 2).ogg]]


=== [[Science All Around - Sound]] (June 1971) ===
=== [[I.E.E.100]] ===                    <!-- Entry date: January 1971, completed 18th May 1971, performed 19th May 1971 -->
* Clip 1 from ''[[Sculptress of Sound]]''
[[File:I.E.E.100 (clip 1 from Sculptress of Sound).ogg]]
* Clip 2 from ''[[Sculptress of Sound]]''
[[File:I.E.E.100 (clip 2 from Sculptress of Sound).ogg]]
* Clip from ''[[Wee Have Also Sound Houses]]''
[[File:I.E.E.100 (clip from Wee Have Also Sound Houses).ogg]]
* "Man on a Moon" clip from ''[[Sisters with Transistors]]''<ref name=SwT/>
{{Spectrogallery|I.E.E.100 Man on a Moon (clip from Sisters with Transistors)|clip from Sisters with Transistors}}
 
=== [[The Autocrat]] ===                <!-- Entry date: April 1971 -->
==== Intro ====
{{Spectrogallery|The Autocrat - Intro}}
==== Outro ====
{{Spectrogallery|The Autocrat - Outro}}
 
=== [[Travelling in Winter]] ===        <!-- Entry date: May 1971,                            broadcast on 5 July 1971 -->
* [[Dreaming]] from [[Out Of This World]]
{{Spectrogallery|Dreaming}}
 
=== [[Science All Around - Sound]] ===   <!-- Entry date: June 1971, score is dated 23rd June,  broadcast 6th October 1971 -->
Reconstructed from Delia's manuscripts
Reconstructed from Delia's manuscripts
* [[DD081913]] [[File:DD081913.ogg]]
* [[DD081913]] [[File:DD081913.ogg]]
* [[DD081955]] [[File:DD081955.ogg]]
* [[DD081955]] [[File:DD081955.ogg]]


=== [[Tutankhamun's Egypt]] ===
=== [[Duffer]] ===
[[File:Tutankhamun's Egypt.ogg]]
==== Descending monkey ====
{{Spectrogallery|Duffer - Descending monkey}}


=== [[Travelling in Winter]] ===
==== Draping worms ====
[[Dreaming]] from [[Out Of This World]] [[File:Dreaming.ogg]]
{{Spectrogallery|Duffer - Draping worms}}


=== [[O Fat White Woman]] ===
==== Betrayed ====
{{Spectrogallery|Duffer - Betrayed}}
 
=== [[O Fat White Woman]] ===           <!-- Entry date: July 1971,                            broadcast 4th November 1971 -->
* [[O Fat White Woman: Title|Title]] (3:25) [[File:O Fat White Woman - Title.ogg]]
* [[O Fat White Woman: Title|Title]] (3:25) [[File:O Fat White Woman - Title.ogg]]
* [[Amo Amas Amat]] (1:29) [[File:Amo Amas Amat.ogg]]
* [[Amo Amas Amat]] (1:29) [[File:Amo Amas Amat.ogg]]
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* [[Seeing double]] (1:13) [[File:Seeing double.ogg]]
* [[Seeing double]] (1:13) [[File:Seeing double.ogg]]
* [[Consequences]] (01:59) [[File:Consequences.ogg]]
* [[Consequences]] (01:59) [[File:Consequences.ogg]]
* Closing titles: [[Boys And Girls Come Out To Play]] (1:55) [[File:Boys And Girls Come Out To Play.ogg]]
* Closing titles: [[Boys And Girls Come Out To Play]] (1:55)
{{Spectrogallery|Boys And Girls Come Out To Play}}


==1972==
==1972==
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=== [[Circle of Light]] ===
=== [[Circle of Light]] ===
[[File:Circle of Light.ogg]]
{{Spectrogallery|Circle of Light}}


=== [[Shadow of the Pharoah]] ===
=== [[Shadow of the Pharoah]] ===
* [["People of Thebes" Fanfare]] [[File:"People of Thebes" Fanfare.ogg]]
<!-- * [["People of Thebes" Fanfare]] [[File:"People of Thebes" Fanfare.ogg]] -->
* [[Shadow of the Pharoah Theme]] [[File:Shadow of the Pharoah Theme.ogg]]
====The City of Thebes====
* [[The City of Thebes]] [[File:The City of Thebes.ogg]]
{{Spectrogallery|The City of Thebes}}
* [["Music! And a Sweet Smell!"]] [[File:"Music! And a Sweet Smell!".ogg]]
====Music! And a Sweet Smell!====
{{Spectrogallery|Music! And a Sweet Smell!}}


=== [[Ways of Seeing]] - Three Dreams ===
=== [[Ways of Seeing]] - Three Dreams ===
[[File:Ways of Seeing - Three Dreams.ogg]]
====Intro====
{{Spectrogallery|Ways of Seeing 0 - Intro}}
====The Dream of Later Tonight====
{{Spectrogallery|Ways of Seeing 1 - The Dream of Later Tonight}}
====The Skin Dream====
{{Spectrogallery|Ways of Seeing 2 - The Skin Dream}}
====The Dream of a Faraway Place====
{{Spectrogallery|Ways of Seeing 3 - The Dream of a Faraway Place}}


=== [[Play for Today - Title Music]] ===
=== [[Play for Today - Title Music]] ===
{{Spectrogallery|Play for Today title music}}
{{Spectrogallery|Play for Today title music}}
=== [[Great Zoo]] ===
{{Spectrogallery|Great Zoo}}


==1973==
==1973==
=== [[Music of the Spheres]] ===
=== [[Music of the Spheres]] ===
From ''The Ascent of Man'' episode 5, 44:47-46:54
From ''The Ascent of Man'' episode 5, 44:47-46:54<BR>
{{Spectrogallery|Music of the Spheres}}
{{Spectrogallery|Music of the Spheres}}


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==1975==
==1975==
===[[About Bridges]]===
===[[About Bridges]]===
* Opening titles (3:11) [[File:About Bridges - Intro.ogg]]
* Opening titles (3:11)
* Main theme (0:50) [[File:About Bridges - Theme.ogg]]
{{Spectrogallery|About Bridges - Intro}}
* Main theme (0:50)
{{Spectrogallery|About Bridges - Theme}}


==2001==
==2001==
=== [[Synchrondipity Machine]] ===
=== [[Synchrondipity Machine]] ===
[[File:Synchrondipity Machine.ogg]]
[[File:Synchrondipity Machine.ogg]]
=References=
<references/>
[[Category:WikiDelia]]

Latest revision as of 22:35, 12 February 2023

Here is all of Delia's music and effects that I have managed to recover so far, in as close as I know to the order in which she created them.

The software used to produce the graphics here was written specially for the WikiDelia and is described on the page Spectrograms.

Undated

Air

Created before March 1967, as that's when it was included on BBC Radiophonic Music.[1]

Music to Undress to

Reconstructed from Delia's manuscript score and played on a cheesy MIDI piano

The Delian Mode

Created before March 1967, as that's when it was included on BBC Radiophonic Music.[1]

1962

Under UK law, all audio recordings made before 1963 are in the public domain.[2]

Time On Our Hands


City Music


Factory Music


Arabic Science and Industry


Closed Planet

  • Opening


  • Meteor warning and strike


  • Chords "This is understood"


  • Ship landing


  • End of shift hooter


  • Arrival of the flycar


  • Good Night


  • Takeoff


  • Landing


  • Ship takeoff and outro


Mattachin

From BBC Radiophonic Music

1963

Know Your Car


Radio Newsreel


Doctor Who


1964

Talk Out


Science and Health

From BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21

The Cyprian Queen

Clip from Wee Have Also Sound Houses

The Anger of Achilles

  • 1. Achilles' plea to his goddess mother Thetis (1:13)


  • 2. Thunderclap (0:13)


  • 3. The sending of the false dream to Agamemnon (2:00)


  • 4. Father Zeus' message, thunderclap, horse effects (1:08)


  • 5. Thetis theme reprise (0:36)


Invention for Radio #1: The Dreams

  • 1. Running (8:08)


  • 2. Falling (8:45)


  • 3. Land (7:02)


  • 4. Sea (8:31)


  • 5. Colour (6:23)


A shorter version was prepared for overseas broadcast

  • The Dreams Tx (Third) 5.1.1964 (27:24)

with:

  • 1. Running (3:48)
  • 2. Falling (7:47)
  • 3. Sea (8:31)
  • 4. Colour (6:23)

Invention for Radio #2: Amor Dei





1965

Invention for Radio #3: The Afterlife

Recorded from the radio with tracks

1. "Death is going from shadow into reality" (7:47)


2. "It's just like going to sleep" (11:09)


3. "Light. Everywhere is light." (10:30)


4. "Death is just a changing" (10:14)


Invention for Radio #4: The Evenings of Certain Lives

We only have excerpts and one of the movements

Time

Sculptress of Sound clip 1

Sculptress of Sound clip 2

Seeing


Oranges and Lemons


1966

Ape and Essence

Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano

Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO

From BBC Radiophonic Music

Moogies Bloogies

From delia-derbyshire.org

Way Out

From Music from The Tomorrow People

A Game of Chess

From Delia's listening copy of final tape, 21st September 1966:

  • 1. King solo


  • 2. Bishop solo


  • 3. Queen solo


  • 4. Pawn solo (1)


  • 5. Pawn solo (2)


  • 6. Knight solo


  • 7. Castle solo


  • 8. Pawn and Knight duet


  • 9. King and Queen duet


  • 10. Castle and Bishop Duet


  • 11. Game A


  • 12. Game B


1967

A New View of Politics

From BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21

Chromophone Band


Happy Birthday


Blue Veils and Golden Sands


Macbeth (1967)

It Was a Solid Killing Match

Intro


It Was a Solid Killing Match


Dissolvence


A Tremendous Artillery Crash


Tel-el-Aqqaqir scene change


Rommel Smashed in Battle


Towards Tomorrow


Oedipus the King


1968

Door To Door


Pot Au Feu

From BBC Radiophonic Music

Le Pont Mirabeau

Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano

The Naked Sun




  • 01. Prologue


  • 02. The Solarian Transport Capsule in motion


  • 03. Making contact with Doctor Thool


  • 04. Making contact with Mrs Delmarre


  • 05. Dramatic crescendo


  • 06. Gruer is poisoned


  • 07. Scene change


  • 08. Contact with Doctor Leebig


  • 09. She hated her husband


  • 10. Landscape, peaceful and serene


  • 11. Earth contact from Undersecretary Minnim


  • 12. Scene change + busy, high pitched note


  • 13. Removing the robot's arm


  • 14. Filler


  • 15. Crash End


  • 16. Epilogue


Anything Goes

Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano

I Think in Shapes


Work Is A Four Letter Word

  • 1. First theme: "I love you, Betty"


  • 2. Second theme; semitone chord theme: "Mrs Murray? You're beautiful"


  • 3. Delia's theme; first theme reprise: "Val, oh Val, you have such lovely ears"


  • 4. Climbing theme; second theme: "They had been climbing, it seemed, for hours


  • 5. Spangles; Delia's theme


  • 6. Second theme reprise


  • 7. Second theme slow: "I'm just gonna see to me mushrooms, Betty"


  • 8. Acciaccatura theme


  • 9. Semitone cheeps and mushroom-eating finale


An Electric Storm

Love Without Sound


My Game of Loving


Here come the Fleas


Firebird


Your Hidden Dreams


The Visitation


The Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell


Clothes

Reconstructed from Delia's score and played on a cheesy electric piano

1969

Environmental Studies


  • From Gnutella, a semitone higher and with attack on the bells


Chronicle


John Peel's Voice


Great Zoos of the World

From BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21

Shakespeare's Hamlet

  • 1st apparition


  • 2nd apparition


  • 3rd apparition


  • 4th apparition


ESL104

Lure of the Space Goddess


Gothic Submarine


London Lemons (9 themes)


Restless Relays


Planetarium


Way Out


Fresh Aire


Delia's Theme


Tentative Delia


Delia's Idea


Delia's Psychadelian Waltz


Delia's Resolve


Delia's Dream


Delia's Reverie


Delia's Fulfilment


Aztec

  • 01. Chronicle Title Theme


  • 02. Mayan architecture


  • 03. The Aztec Empire


  • 04. Aztec Culture at Tenochtitlan


  • 05. Human Sacrifice and Aztec Gods


  • 06. Portents of Doom


  • 07. Running Red with Human Blood


  • 08. Between Two Great Volcanoes


  • 09. Five human hearts, still warm and steaming


  • 10. Skull racks


  • 11. Exquisite featherwork


  • 12. The Smoking Mirror


  • 13. La Noche Triste


  • 14. The Final Assault, Impaled heads and the Defeat of the Aztecs


  • 15. The Fall of Tenochtitlan


  • 16. What Remains is Regret


1970

The Bagman

Created in February 1970, broadcast in March.

  • 1. Opening theme


  • 2. Dreaming in Highgate Wood


reissued as Phantoms of Darkness

  • 3. Dreaming at the Ministers


  • 4. Vocal fanfare


  • 5. Percussive Phantoms


  • 6. The Little People


  • 7. Huge Steel-Shod Foot


  • 8. The Gypsy Woman


  • 9. Closing theme


Music of Spheres

Completed shortly before 10th March 1970; first broadcast 4 November 1970

Petya's Dream

First broadcast 28th April 1970.

Radio Solent


1971

Dance from Noah


Tutankhamun's Egypt


I.E.E.100


The Autocrat

Intro


Outro


Travelling in Winter


Science All Around - Sound

Reconstructed from Delia's manuscripts

Duffer

Descending monkey


Draping worms


Betrayed


O Fat White Woman


1972

Electrosonic

Quest


Quest - fast


Computermatic


Frontier of Knowledge


The Pattern Emerges


Freeze Frame


Plodding Power


Busy Microbes


Liquid Energy (a)


Liquid Energy (b) (rhythm only)


No Man's Land


Depression


Nightwalker


Electrostings


Electrobuild


Celestial Cantabile


Effervescence


The Wizard's Laboratory


Shock Chords


Circle of Light


Shadow of the Pharoah

The City of Thebes


Music! And a Sweet Smell!


Ways of Seeing - Three Dreams

Intro


The Dream of Later Tonight


The Skin Dream


The Dream of a Faraway Place


Play for Today - Title Music


Great Zoo


1973

Music of the Spheres

From The Ascent of Man episode 5, 44:47-46:54

The Legend of Hell House

  • Opening titles (0:36)
  • Approach to the House (1:17)
  • Closing titles (1:01)

1974

Pompeii

  • Intro (1:26)
  • The Three Theatres (5:26)
  • The Eruption (5:14)

1975

About Bridges

  • Opening titles (3:11)


  • Main theme (0:50)


2001

Synchrondipity Machine

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 TRW 6641: Tracks for BBC Radiophonic Music.
  2. The Open Music Archive's FAQ.
  3. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named SwT