Audio

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.

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.

1962

Time On Our Hands

City 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

• 1. Groping towards God

• 2. Rorate Coeli (9:02)

• 3. "I'd like to believe in God, but..."

• 4. "There IS a God!"

1965

Invention for Radio #3: The Afterlife

Recorded from the radio

with

• 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

• Sculptress of Sound clip 1 about Time
• Sculptress of Sound clip 2 (Delian chords)
• The movement about 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)

• A 49-second clip from These Hopeful Machines

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

Tutankhamun's Egypt

I.E.E.100

• Clip 1 from Sculptress of Sound

• Clip 2 from Sculptress of Sound

• Clip from Wee Have Also Sound Houses

• "Man on a Moon" clip from Sisters with Transistors

The Autocrat

Intro

Outro

Travelling in Winter

• Dreaming from Out Of This World

Science All Around - Sound

Reconstructed from Delia's manuscripts

• DD081913
• DD081955

O Fat White Woman

• Title (3:25)
• Amo Amas Amat (1:29)
• Jolly Boating Weather (0:15)
• Dormitory theme (0:18)
• Marching, chanting, gossip, Perfect Love (1:33)
• Seeing double (1:13)
• Consequences (01:59)
• Closing titles: Boys And Girls Come Out To Play (1:55)

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

• "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
• "Music! And a Sweet Smell!" File:"Music! And a Sweet Smell!".ogg

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)