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The following list of tracks is composited from various sheets of Delia's notes, which indicate that the final master consisted of two tapes, of which Tape 1 was played on the left of the stage (see 51) and, presumably, Tape 2 on the right.
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The following list of tracks is composited from various sheets of Delia's notes.
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The name of the track "Martletts/Mattleths etc" is unclear to me. If you can figure out what it really says, do [mailto:delia-derbyshire.net@gmail.com write].
 
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! No !! Tape 1 !! Tape 2
 
! No !! Tape 1 !! Tape 2
 
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|1||Thunder &amp; witches<ref name=DD135914>[[DD135914]]: Listing of tracks 1-15.</ref>
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|1||Thunder &amp; witch background<ref name=DD135914>[[DD135914]]: Listing of tracks 1-15.</ref><ref name=DD140051>[[DD140051]]: Listing of tracks 1-39.</ref>||
 
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|2|| ||Cat<ref name=DD135914/>
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|2|| ||Cat<ref name=DD135914/><ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|3|| ||Frog<ref name=DD135914/>
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|3|| ||Frog<ref name=DD135914/><ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|4|| ||Dog<ref name=DD135914/>
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|4|| ||Dog<ref name=DD135914/><ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|5|| ||Battle<ref name=DD135914/>
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|5|| ||Battle<ref name=DD135914/><ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|6||Witches<ref name=DD135914/>
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|6||Witches<ref name=DD135914/><ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|7|| ||Drum<ref name=DD135914/>
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|7|| ||Drum<ref name=DD135914/><ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|8a|| ||Witches disappear<ref name=DD135914/>
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|8||Witches<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|9|| ||Cat<ref name=DD135914/>
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|8a|| ||Witches disappear<ref name=DD135914/><ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|10|| ||Martletts[?]<ref name=DD135914/>
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|9|| ||Cat<ref name=DD135914/><ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|11||Witches<ref name=DD135914/>
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|10|| ||Frog then Martleths[?]<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|12|| ||Martlets[?]<ref name=DD135914/>
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|11||Witches<ref name=DD135914/><ref name=DD140051/>||
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|12|| ||Martleths<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|13|| ||Rec coming[?] thunder<ref name=DD135914/>
 
|13|| ||Rec coming[?] thunder<ref name=DD135914/>
 
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|15||Storm<ref name=DD135914/>||
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|16||Storm<ref name=DD140051/>||Receding thunder<ref name=DD140051/>
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|17||Witches/Dagger speech<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|15||Storm<ref name=DD135914/>
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|18|| ||Cricket<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|19||Owl<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|20||Mantlells<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|21|| ||Storm<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|22||Frog<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|colspan=3 align=center|-- Interval --<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|23||Cat<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|24|| ||Trumpet<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|25||Witches<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|26||Horses on right arrive and mill about<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|27|| ||Horses led away stage left<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|28||Frog link [deleted]<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|28a|| ||Trumpet<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|29||Banquo [Alan[?] notices apparition]||
 
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|30|| ||Banquo 45'<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|31||Frog/M&amp;LM leave/what purpose?/sleep-dawn<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|32|| ||Witches music<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|33||Witches noise<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|34|| ||1st appartition<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|35||1st apparition words<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|36|| ||2nd apparition<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|37||2nd apparition words<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|38|| ||3rd apparition<ref name=DD140051/>
 
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|39||3rd apparition words<ref name=DD140051/>||
 
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|39a|| ||4th apparition approach<ref name=DD140025>[[DD140025]]: Listing of tracks 39-53.</ref>
 
|39a|| ||4th apparition approach<ref name=DD140025>[[DD140025]]: Listing of tracks 39-53.</ref>
 
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|40||4th apparition sounds<ref name=DD140025/>||
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|40||4th apparition sounds<ref name=DD140025/>
 
 
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|41|| ||Horses arrive<ref name=DD140025/>
 
|41|| ||Horses arrive<ref name=DD140025/>
 
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|42||Cat + Thunder<ref name=DD140025/>
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|42||Cat + Thunder<ref name=DD140025/>||
 
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|43|| ||Birdsong England<ref name=DD140025/>
 
|43|| ||Birdsong England<ref name=DD140025/>
 
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|45||Soft drum roll<ref name=DD140025/>
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|45||Soft drum roll<ref name=DD140025/>||
 
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|46||Heart beat drum<ref name=DD140025/>
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|46||Heart beat drum<ref name=DD140025/>||
 
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|47||Heart beat drum<ref name=DD140025/>||
 
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|48||Heart beat drum<ref name=DD140025/>
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|49|| ||Birnam Wood<ref name=DD140025/>
 
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|53|| ||Three familiars/Thunder<ref name=DD140025/>
 
|53|| ||Three familiars/Thunder<ref name=DD140025/>

Revision as of 21:34, 24 May 2016

Theatre programme cover

With Kaleidophon, Delia created sound for Ewan Hooper's production of Macbeth at the Greenwich Theatre, opening on the 18th February 1971.

For other versions, see Macbeth.

Apart from the sound effects, the most interesting track must surely be the Witches Dance.[1]

Reviews

“a production with some interesting effects of sound and vision for the supernatural and a semi-musical setting of the witch chants in contemporary idioms.”[2]

“The [characters] are of no period or place and the sounds around them are electronic and anonymous.”[3]

“They sing their cauldron recipe to a waltz song like the doctors in Wozzeck.”[4]

“A great night for the noises off... a night of whistling and whinnying and the calls of whippoorwills, of electronic music for the witches' chants, of echo chambers and metallic vibrations from the back projected ghosts.”[5]

“[The] production gets nearer the centre of the play than more ambitious rivals. Liberally employing what Henry Reed once dubbed “reinforced concrete music” and setting the action on a tilted promontory suspended above two jagged edge rostra, it evokes the right atmosphere of eerie ambivalence in which nothing is but what is not.”[6]

Track listing

The following list of tracks is composited from various sheets of Delia's notes.

The name of the track "Martletts/Mattleths etc" is unclear to me. If you can figure out what it really says, do write.

No Tape 1 Tape 2
1 Thunder & witch background[7][8]
2 Cat[7][8]
3 Frog[7][8]
4 Dog[7][8]
5 Battle[7][8]
6 Witches[7][8]
7 Drum[7][8]
8 Witches[8]
8a Witches disappear[7][8]
9 Cat[7][8]
10 Frog then Martleths[?][8]
11 Witches[7][8]
12 Martleths[8]
13 Rec coming[?] thunder[7]
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15 Storm[7]
16 Storm[8] Receding thunder[8]
17 Witches/Dagger speech[8]
18 Cricket[8]
19 Owl[8]
20 Mantlells[8]
21 Storm[8]
22 Frog[8]
-- Interval --[8]
23 Cat[8]
24 Trumpet[8]
25 Witches[8]
26 Horses on right arrive and mill about[8]
27 Horses led away stage left[8]
28 Frog link [deleted][8]
28a Trumpet[8]
29 Banquo [Alan[?] notices apparition]
30 Banquo 45'[8]
31 Frog/M&LM leave/what purpose?/sleep-dawn[8]
32 Witches music[8]
33 Witches noise[8]
34 1st appartition[8]
35 1st apparition words[8]
36 2nd apparition[8]
37 2nd apparition words[8]
38 3rd apparition[8]
39 3rd apparition words[8]
39a 4th apparition approach[9]
40 4th apparition sounds[9]
41 Horses arrive[9]
42 Cat + Thunder[9]
43 Birdsong England[9]
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45 Soft drum roll[9]
46 Heart beat drum[9]
47 Heart beat drum[9]
48 Heart beat drum[9]
49 Birnam Wood[9]
50 Trumpets into battle[9]
51 Battle stage left[9]
51a Trumpet[9]
51b Apparition/proc.type[9]
52 Drum link/knives[9]
53 Three familiars/Thunder[9]

Papers

  • DD135529: Letter dated 23 March 1971 from Ewan Hooper thanking Delia and Brian for their work on Macbeth sound.
  • DD135629: Theatre programme: cover "First performance Feb. 18, 1971"
  • DD135700: Theatre programme: cast and article by Ewan Hooper
  • DD135745: Delia's handwritten notes: "1st sound - Change? (thicken thunder + echo)"
  • DD135820: Delia's handwritten notes: "1. Cue missed?"
  • DD135830: Zoom on top half of DD135820
  • DD135854: Zoom on bottom half of DD135820: "horses earlier please"
  • DD135914: Delia's handwritten notes: "1 - Thunder & witches"
  • DD135928: Delia's handwritten notes: "CUT DRUMS where trumpet [in] battle / (23) Cat"
  • DD135943: Delia's handwritten diagram of stage
  • DD140011: Delia's handwritten timing diagram "1 - 2.25" "Annette £50 Effects"
  • DD140025: Delia's handwritten notes listing tracks 39 to 53 on Tape 1 and Tape 2.
  • DD140051: Delia's handwritten notes forTape 1 - Tape 2" "1. Thunder + Witch B.G."
  • DD140104: Delia's handwritten notes: "35 .. 53" "Desk witches" (back of DD140051)
  • DD140140: Typewritten cue sheet: "MACBETH / Sound / I.1. Sea breaking against cliffs"
  • DD140152: Typewritten list of theatre personnel
  • DD140239: Typewritten cue sheet, page 1: "MACBETH / ACT I / 1. Thunder in the distance - 22. / ACT II / 23. - 29. Banquo arriving noise"
  • DD140302: Typewritten cue sheet, page 2: "30. Banquo arriving noise - 53. Witches' familiars together"
  • DD140336: Delia's handwritten notes: "Sea alone" ...
  • DD140402: Delia's handwritten notes: "P.3 Sea breaking & washing" ...
  • DD140425: Delia's Handwritten notes: "4 time / [A] Primitive vocal - mysterious, smokey"
  • DD140448: Delia's Handwritten notes: "4 time / [A] Organ - low reed - waw waw"
  • DD140505: VCS3 dope sheet: "Macbeth - twangy crochets"
  • DD140554: Newspaper clipping: "Lady Macbeth - or just Miss World?" by Herbert Kretzmer: a short and scathing review
  • DD140622: Newspaper clipping: "London gets a new Lady Macbeth", published one week before the opening night
  • DD140754: Newspaper clipping: the image of Hildegard Neil above the Fiddick review
  • DD140901: Newspaper clipping: "MILTON SHULMAN at the new Macbeth" from the Evening Standard: a mostly negative review.

References

  1. ↑ DD135820: Delia's handwritten notes: "1. Cue missed?"
  2. ↑ DD140726: Review "Macbeth" by Peter Fiddick.
  3. ↑ B. A. Young in The Financial Times, quoted in Breege Brennan's thesis.
  4. ↑ DD140920: Review "Macbeth" by B. A. Young
  5. ↑ DD140834: Review "Enter Corporal Macbeth" by Peter Lewis of the Daily Mail on 18th February.
  6. ↑ DD140642: Review "Macbeth" by Michael Billington in The Times newspaper.
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 DD135914: Listing of tracks 1-15.
  8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 8.16 8.17 8.18 8.19 8.20 8.21 8.22 8.23 8.24 8.25 8.26 8.27 8.28 8.29 8.30 8.31 8.32 8.33 8.34 8.35 8.36 8.37 8.38 DD140051: Listing of tracks 1-39.
  9. ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 9.14 9.15 DD140025: Listing of tracks 39-53.
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