Le Pont Mirabeau

Typesetter's proof of the score for Le Pont Mirabeau, with pencilled correction

Delia created Le Pont Mirabeau, which she calls Cubism Song, for "a 1968 Schools Radio programme about Cubism in the series "Art and Design".

Delia's papers contain the complete typeset score for her musical setting of Apollinaire's poem of the same name, dated August 1968. It consists of two verses with a chorus after each verse.

Here it is, typeset using Lilypond and listenable as a MIDI file: Le Pont Mirabeau (score)

According to James Percival: 'it appears [to have been] written for a 1968 Schools Radio programme about Cubism in the series "Art and Design" [...] There is an off-air recording of most of this programme in the Manchester collection (DD263), and in Delia's realisation of Le Pont Mirabeau it's sung by White Noise vocalist John Whitman. The programme was written and narrated by Edward Lucie-Smith.'

Score

Score for Le Pont Mirabeau

Here is a new typesetting of Delia's proof copy of the score, following Delia's typographical indications exactly and including her correction to the professionally typeset version.

• the LilyPond source file
• a MIDI file that you can listen to
• An audio file of the MIDI file played on a cheesy electric piano

Papers

• DD115652 DD115719 DD115817 DD115901 DD115933 DD115959 Handwritten score
• DD115738 Typesetter's proof with a pencilled correction by Delia

Availability

• In Delia's Attic Tapes on
  • DD262: "Oranges and Lemons, Approaching the 70s copy, Cubism Song copy etc"
  • DD263: "Cubism prog": a BBC Programme about Cubism, including Le Pont Mirabeau.

For the availability of the programme in which it was used, see Cubism.