Tutankhamun's Egypt
Delia created music for the a 13-part[1] BBC documentary series Tutankhamun's Egypt written by Cyril Aldred, produced by Paul Johnstone and directed by Paul Jordan.[2]
As well as the title music, it seems from the Attic Tape titles that Delia also created incidental music for episodes of the series.[3] This page is about the title music.
It's a full-on Delian trip... starting with trumpet calls from a 1939 recording of the silver trumpet found in Tutankhamun's burial chamber, it then enters the mesmerising desert territory Delia mapped out so memorably in Blue Veils and Golden Sands.[4]
Isolationist ambience some 25 years ahead of its time.[5]
Roger Lamb helped create some of the in-programme cues for the series.[6]
Papers
Her papers contain the cue sheets for twelve programmes.
Her notes on the back of each sheet are for something else, as they are dated June 22 '72[7]and Tutankhamun's Egypt was broadcast starting on 2nd April 1972.[8] See The back of Tutankhamun's Egypt cue sheets.
Tapes
See Egypt#Tapes.
Makeup tracks
Copyright
The Performing Right Society's list of works by Delia Ann Derbyshire has:
Title: Tutankhamun's Egypt Artist(s): Derbyshire Delia Ann Publisher: Unpublished Creation date: 1 January 1984
Spectrogram
Availability
- Broadcast on BBC2 every Sunday from April 2nd to June 25th.[1]
- Released on The Music of Africa, BBC Record REC130M (1971)
- The BBC Sound Archive's tape TRW 7529: "Egypt series" is missing.[9]
- There is a clip at delia-derbyshire.org
- See Tutankhamun's Trumpet
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There is also a book of the series by Cyril Aldred, published in 1972.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb BBC R4 c1972 forum post on proboards.com
- ↑ Tutankhamun's Egypt programme 1 on genome.ch.bbc.co.uk
- ↑ DD237: "Scribes, Heiroglyphs" for episode 8.
- ↑ delia-derbyshire.org
- ↑ Peter Marsh reviewing the album BBC Radiophonic Music on bbc.co.uk
- ↑ DD161's notes.
- ↑ DD142422: Delia's notes on the back of Tutankhamun's Egypt cue sheets, dated "June 22 '72".
- ↑ DD142121: Tutankhamun's Egypt cue sheets for Programme One, "TX 2/4/72".
- ↑ The Tape Library List's entry for TRW 7529: "Egypt Series".
