Delius, Frederick and Jelka
Delius and Limpsfield
The composer, Frederick Delius, wishes to be buried with his wife in a beautiful churchyard in the South of England - his remains were transferred to Limpsfield in 1935, the year after his death. I have been keen to revive the memory of Jelka, his wife, who was a notable artist, who studied in Paris alongside some of the most notable artists of her age. Below you can see my talk on her, recorded in Limpsfield Church.
PUBLICATIONS
FULL TEXT AVAILIBILITY
In time, the intention is to provide scans and pdfs of publications where possible.
BOOKS
Carissimi (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1986)
Translation from Dutch of W. Elders, Composers of the Low Countries (Oxford, 1991)
PHD DISSERTATION
Liturgical Music in Rome (1605-44), University of Durham, 1981
Available at Durham e-Theses: click here
ARTICLES
Some English Impressions of the Russian Church and its Music, Proceedings of the Conference: ad memoriam Dimitri Razumovsky (Moscow, 1997), 231-37
Il concertato 'alla romana' e la policoralità romana, Proceedings of the Conference: La scuola policorale romana nel sei-settecento (Trent, 1997), 129-35
William Birkbeck: An Englishman’s Impressions of the Russian Church and its Music, Sourozh, 67 (1997), 12-21
'Behold our affliction': celebration and supplication in the Gonzaga Household, Early Music 24 (1996), 251-61
Purcell's Italianate Circle, in The Purcell Companion (London, 1995), 38-51
Music in the Venerable English College in the Early Baroque, in La Musica a Roma attraverso le fonti d'archivio (Lucca, 1994), 469-78
Editor of special Early Music edition to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Palestrina (Oxford, 1994)
The Performance of Palestrina: some questions but fewer answers, Early Music 22 (1994), 666-75
Articles on 17th-century Italian composers, The Viking Opera Guide (London, 1993)
Giovanni Amigone, un cantore lombardo del Seicento, e il suo metodo didattico, in Seicento inesplorato: Atti del III Convegno internazionale sulla musica in area lombardo-padana del secolo XVII (Como, 1993), 321-338
Liturgical Reconstructions: an apologia and some guidelines, A Compendium of Contemporary Musical Thought (London, 1992), 1, 1065-78
'Sacred Opera', The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (London, 1992)
Essays on Mozart Masses for The Complete Mozart (New York, 1991)
L'Interpretation des Oeuvres de Palestrina: des questions mais peu de réponses, in L'Interprétation de Palestrina (Paris, Association Palestrina, 1991), 13-23
Problems of context in Baroque Sacred Music, in Early Music in the Context of the Contemporary Culture: Problems of Interpretation and Source Study (Moscow, 1989), 343-56
A Humanist Treatise in 18th-Century Portugal, in Musica Antiqua 8 (Bydgoszcz, 1988), 277-312
Handel's Music for the Carmelites: A study in liturgy and some observations on performance, Early Music 15 (1987), 16-29
Romano Micheli and Naples: The documentation of a 60-year relationship, in La musica a Napoli durante il ‘600 (Naples, 1987), 555-66
Agostino Agazzari (1578-after 1640): The Theoretical Writings, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle (1987), 39-52
Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610: 'della beata Vergine', Early Music 15 (1987), 386-9
Handel's Music for the Carmelites, Carmelus 24 (1987), 78-93
Around 100 articles on musicians for Hamlyn Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (London, 1986)
Continuo Scoring in the Early Baroque: the Role of Bowed Bass Instruments, Chelys (1986), 38-53
Handel's Music for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel: Toward a Reconstruction, in Haendel e gli Scarlatti a Roma (Rome, 1986), 29-48
Tradition and Progress in Roman Mass Setting after Palestrina, Atti del II Convegno Internazionale di Studi Palestriniani (Palestrina, 1986)
Handel's Vesper Music: Towards a liturgical reconstruction, Musical Times 126 (1985), 393-97
Lorenzo Ratti (1589/90-1630): Exemplum Virtutum, Note d'Archivio: nuova serie 2 (1984), 7-20
Lenten Devotions: some memoriae of Baroque Rome, Musical Times 124 (1983), 157-61
Oratorio e mottetto? Alcune reflessioni sulla classificazione della musica sacra del Seicento, Nuova rivista musicale italiana 7 (1983), 203-22
Around 200 short composer articles for Hamlyn Dictionary of Music (London, 1982)
Jan van Geertsom, a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Printer, and the Dissemination of Roman Music,
Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 32 (1982), 116-25
Progressive Tendencies in the Roman Motet during the Early Seventeenth Century, Acta musicologica 53 (1981), 105-19
Roman Church Music: The Place of Instruments after 1600, Galpin Society Journal 34 (1981), 51-61
The Pantheon and Music in Minor Churches in Seventeenth-Century Rome, Studi musicali 10 (1981), 265-77
Durham Chapter Library B.29: A Rare Anthology of mid-Seventeenth-Century Roman Sacred Music, Durham University Journal 73 (1981), 221-225
The Cappella of S Maria in Trastevere (1605-45): An Archival Study, Music & Letters 62 (1981), 30-40
G.F. Anerio (1567-1630) and The Roman School, Musical Times 121 (1980), 366-68
Musical Activity in the Church of Gesù in Rome during the Early Baroque, Archivium Historicum Societatis Iesu 49 (1980), 323-37
The Origins of the Roman 'Colossal Baroque', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 106 (1979-80), 115-28
EDITIONS
The Twelve-part Motets of Vincenzo Ugolini (London, Mapa Mundi, 1982)
G.F. Handel, Music for Vespers (London, Novello, 1990)
General Editor of the Faber Motet Series (London, 1994- ), includes Masterworks from Rome ed. Dixon (London, 1994)