Dance from Noah
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Jump to navigationJump to searchDelia created the Dance from Noah for the programme Noah produced by Dickon Reed for the BBC radio series Drama Workshop.[1]
Here's a dance from Noah, written by Delia Derbyshire for the BBC using Synthi equipment. Its mixture of gaiety and sadness make it irresistible for children to dance to.[2]
Its tape's catalogue entry is dated January 1971.[1]
Contents
Makeup
Melody
Popcorn
Counterpoint
Bass
Rhythm
The Experimental Dance Track also uses this rhythm and there is a partly-mixed tape made from the above, Noah's Dance basic rhythm.
Spectrogram
Tapes
- DD034: Sections of the Dance from “Noah”.
- DD111: Dance from Noah makeup tracks
- DD118: A shorter, slower version using two timbres and without the rhythm track.
- DD122: Alternative versions using Dance from Noah material
- DD262: A short track using the same rhythm
- TRW 7336: Drama workshop: Noah
Availability
- Released on promotional LP EMS LP 1 circa 1971.
- Released on Flexidisc EMS FLEXI 1 (1972) given away with EMS Synthi brochures.
- Released on The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective in 2008 together with a mangled stereo remix by Mark Ayres.
- On Attic Tape DD034.
- The BBC Sound Archive's tape TRW 7336: "Drama Workshop: Noah" is missing.[1]
- A short sample of the backing track is included in the BBC News article Lost Tapes of the Dr Who composer, which is discussed on the Create Digital Music forum.
- Downloadable as MP3's at thesynthi.de on Side A at 03:29.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Tape Library List's entry for TRW 7336.
- ↑ Tristram Cary's spoken introduction to the piece on EMS FLEXI 1
