DD080757

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DD080757

DD080757 is a sheet of Delia's handwritten cues for Medea.

Transcript

It's pretty hard to read. Better suggestions please...

(P.1)                            right-back of stage.
(Q1)  Beg. 1st v.loud bang left. - 2nd difft. note.
====           ------
      3 tams   Messian, `Et Ressurectis _ _ __  "
                                  stereo        long rev.
                                  ------
(Q2)  4 cries by Medea, pre-rec. - stereo --  "over-grande"
----  --------------------------   ------     [the lot]
 Q5a Chorus
 === "You'll wish you never had" preceeding killing children _
                + don't .. too much love"... 
 Q6 P.18  - not too cliché[?] h'b but African ?????  ?
 ==                           =====================
  -->  ?????????, lost stray & ?????, frightened_
 Q7     ???? back to M's roots as sorceress _ 3 wh. girls
 --      in A. joych[?] going to be raped_ same beat
          but terrifying & v. threatening.
   p.19    high thing (Brii) falling, slow. 
  -->  Agea scene :-- swear benevolent, trans, costume [??]
 Q8         spushy[?] ???? - bloodless, sweat not threatening. 
            mod, Jap. ??? Nov. stops - a??ident Jap.
            f/x breathy, tunalen[?], strange, sad _
            "stage crying" thro' smoke. The cry cue
    -->  Consider birth pangs (Bri-bri)
       this is underpinning the stylized dialogue _
 8&9     then sweetness - trust each other - only person.
           then vanish thro' smoke.
 Q9 \    Solo chorus
 --  >p.34 blood, stop her, prevent her...    breath in
 Q9a/      followed by reverb, thro' land.     & out
 ===
 Q 10p35      tam tam
 ====
     -->  after murder - chariot in huge tam tam  roll _
 Q.11  *  she appears upt???? with wings beating _
 ====     great triumph - huge cresc.  BUT -
          she goes off - needs louder & b/w. f/w
  • cresc. = crescendo
  • b/w f/w = backwards forwards
  • Brii and Bri-bri may be affectionate names for Brian Hodgson.