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.
Contents
- 1 Undated
- 2 1962
- 3 1963
- 4 1964
- 5 1965
- 6 1966
- 7 1967
- 8 1968
- 9 1969
- 9.1 Environmental Studies
- 9.2 Chronicle
- 9.3 John Peel's Voice
- 9.4 Great Zoos of the World
- 9.5 Shakespeare's Hamlet
- 9.6 ESL104
- 9.6.1 Lure of the Space Goddess
- 9.6.2 Gothic Submarine
- 9.6.3 London Lemons (9 themes)
- 9.6.4 Restless Relays
- 9.6.5 Planetarium
- 9.6.6 Way Out
- 9.6.7 Fresh Aire
- 9.6.8 Delia's Theme
- 9.6.9 Tentative Delia
- 9.6.10 Delia's Idea
- 9.6.11 Delia's Psychadelian Waltz
- 9.6.12 Delia's Resolve
- 9.6.13 Delia's Dream
- 9.6.14 Delia's Reverie
- 9.6.15 Delia's Fulfilment
- 9.7 Aztec
- 10 1970
- 11 1971
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
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
1963
Know Your Car
Radio Newsreel
Doctor Who
1964
Mattachin
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
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
- 2. Rorate Coeli (9:02)
- 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
Moogies Bloogies
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
Chromophone Band
Towards Tomorrow
Blue Veils and Golden Sands
Macbeth (1967)
- A 49-second clip from These Hopeful Machines
1968
Door To Door
Pot Au Feu
Le Pont Mirabeau
Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano
The Naked Sun
- "Icy Peak"
- 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
- Clip 1 from Sculptress of Sound File:I.E.E.100 (clip 1).ogg
- Clip 2 from Sculptress of Sound File:I.E.E.100 (clip 2).ogg
The Autocrat
Intro
Outro
Travelling in Winter
Science All Around - Sound
Reconstructed from Delia's manuscripts
O Fat White Woman
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 TRW 6641: Tracks for BBC Radiophonic Music.