At Kaleidophon, Delia helped create the ghost voice and electronic music sequences[1] for Tony Richardson’s production of Hamlet at the Chalk Farm Round House,[2] which was then turned into the 1969 film "Shakespeare's Hamlet".[3]
Delia's sounds accompany the apparitions of the ghost of Hamlet's father and feature Nicol Williamson’s treated voice as the voice of the ghost.[4]
The only other music in the film are a couple of brief trumpet fanfares, for which Patrick Gowers gets the entire film credit as the composer of its original music.
- 01:29-01:56 First apparition: "The same figure like the king that's dead"
- 02:14-02:45 Second apparition: "This bodes some strange eruption to our state"
- 16:36-20:02 Third apparition: "It is a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance", voice of Hamlet's father and clashes
- 1:08:10-1:09:12 Fourth apparition "A king of shreds and patches", voice of Hamlet's father
Tapes
- DD035: "Hamlet Copy Reels 1, 2, 3"
- DD210: "Hamlet Reel 1 of makeup"
- DD156: "Hamlet Reel 2 of Makeup. Music & FX"
- DD157: "Hamlet Reel 3 of Makeup"
- DD208: "Hamlet film material"
- DD209: "Copy Film Hamlet 3rd session"
Copyright
The Performing Right Society's list of works by Delia Ann Derbyshire has:
Title: Hamlet
Writer(s): Derbyshire Delia Ann; Clarke, Malcolm John (SNR)
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Music
Creation date: 27 March 1991
though this may be a different version of Hamlet from the Tony Richardson/Chalk Farm Round House one, which was not a BBC production.
Availability
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