Audio

The log-frequency-axis spectrograms used here are my own work and unique to the wikidelia.

If you are studying a piece of Delia's music for which I haven't done the spectrogram yet, you can write and I'll do it next.

Undated

Air

Door To Door

Music to Undress to

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

The Delian Mode

1962

Time On Our Hands

City Music

Arabic Science and Industry

1963

Doctor Who

Know Your Car

1964

Mattachin

From BBC Radiophonic Music

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
• Sculptress of Sound clip 2

Oranges and Lemons

1966

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

Happy Birthday

Score is dated "3.67"; first broadcast on 30th April 1968.

A New View of Politics

From BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21

Ape and Essence

Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano

Towards Tomorrow

Blue Veils and Golden Sands

Macbeth (1967)

• A 49-second clip from These Hopeful Machines

1968

Pot Au Feu

From BBC Radiophonic Music

Le Pont Mirabeau

Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano

The Naked Sun

• "Heat Haze"
• "Frozen Waste"
• "Icy Peak"
• Scene 4

Anything Goes

Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano

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

1969

Environmental Studies

• From BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21
• From Gnutella, a semitone higher and with attack on the bells

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 featherwor