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.

Undated

Air

Created before March 1967, as that's when it was included on BBC Radiophonic Music.

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.

1962

Under UK law, all audio recordings made before 1963 are in the public domain.

Time On Our Hands

City Music

Factory 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

Mattachin

From BBC Radiophonic Music

1963

Know Your Car

Radio Newsreel

Doctor Who

1964

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

• 1. Running (8:08)

• 2. Falling (8:45)

• 3. Land (7:02)

• 4. Sea (8:31)

• 5. Colour (6:23)

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

• 1. Groping towards God

• 2. Rorate Coeli (9:02)

• 3. "I'd like to believe in God, but..."

• 4. "There IS a God!"

1965

Invention for Radio #3: The Afterlife

Recorded from the radio

with tracks

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

We only have excerpts and one of the movements

Time

Sculptress of Sound clip 1

Sculptress of Sound clip 2

Seeing

Oranges and Lemons

1966

Ape and Essence

Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano

Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO

From BBC Radiophonic Music

Moogies Bloogies

From delia-derbyshire.org

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

A New View of Politics

From BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21

Chromophone Band

Happy Birthday

Blue Veils and Golden Sands

Macbeth (1967)

• A 49-second clip from These Hopeful Machines

It Was a Solid Killing Match

Intro

It Was a Solid Killing Match

Dissolvence

A Tremendous Artillery Crash

Tel-el-Aqqaqir scene change

Rommel Smashed in Battle

Towards Tomorrow

Oedipus the King

1968

Door To Door

Pot Au Feu

From BBC Radiophonic Music

Le Pont Mirabeau

Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano

The Naked Sun

• "Heat Haze"

• "Frozen Waste"

• "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 BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21

• 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

• Clip 2 from Sculptress of Sound

• Clip from Wee Have Also Sound Houses

• "Man on a Moon" clip from Sisters with Transistors

The Autocrat

Intro

Outro

Travelling in Winter

• Dreaming from Out Of This World

Science All Around - Sound

Reconstructed from Delia's manuscripts

• DD081913
• DD081955

Duffer

Descending monkey

Draping worms

Betrayed

O Fat White Woman

• Title (3:25)
• Amo Amas Amat (1:29)
• Jolly Boating Weather (0:15)
• Dormitory theme (0:18)
• Marching, chanting, gossip, Perfect Love (1:33)
• Seeing double (1:13)
• Consequences (01:59)
• Closing titles: Boys And Girls Come Out To Play (1:55)

1972

Electrosonic

Quest

Quest - fast

Computermatic

Frontier of Knowledge

The Pattern Emerges

Freeze Frame

Plodding Power

Busy Microbes

Liquid Energy (a)

Liquid Energy (b) (rhythm only)

No Man's Land

Depression

Nightwalker

Electrostings

Electrobuild

Celestial Cantabile

Effervescence

The Wizard's Laboratory

Shock Chords

Circle of Light

Shadow of the Pharoah

The City of Thebes

Music! And a Sweet Smell!

Ways of Seeing - Three Dreams

Intro

The Dream of Later Tonight

The Skin Dream

The Dream of a Faraway Place

Play for Today - Title Music

Great Zoo

1973

Music of the Spheres

From The Ascent of Man episode 5, 44:47-46:54

The Legend of Hell House

• Opening titles (0:36)
• Approach to the House (1:17)
• Closing titles (1:01)

1974

Pompeii

• Intro (1:26)
• The Three Theatres (5:26)
• The Eruption (5:14)

1975

About Bridges

• Opening titles (3:11)

• Main theme (0:50)