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• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Prelude.* Slow - Quitely but expressively - Marcato -
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: We are in old Bagdad *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Interlude between Scenes 1 & 2. * Very quietly -
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Scene 2. Moonlight. The street of Felicity by the fountain of the two
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: It is later that night *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Serenade.* Con moto moderato
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: The shutters open and Yasmin appears *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Melos.* Hassan falls under the shadow of the fountain. The first light
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Chorus behind the scenes.* Not too slow
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: The first light of dawn shines in the sky *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Prelude.* With Animation -
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: The filthy inanimate bulk of Hassan... *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Fanfare preceding the Ballet (Gaily outside) *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - 1. Dance of the Beggars.** There enters the most awful selection of
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: And them after the Beggars*
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - 2. Chorus of Women.** (Enter a band of fair and dusky beauties.)
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - 3. Divertissement.* Con moto
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: Rafi is then announced as The King of the Beggars *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - 4. General Dance.** Andante moderato - Allegro - Piu mosso
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: Rafi is asked why he hates the Caliph so *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Chorus of Beggars and Dancing Girls (from behind the scene after the
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: This House of the Moving Walls... *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Scene 2. The Street of Felicity.* Very quietly
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: The SOS message has fallen from the balcony... *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Music accompanying Ishaks poem.** Not too slow
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: Yasmins regard for Hassan has instantly shifted *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Prelude. ** Moderato - Slower
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Scene 1. ** Curtain
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: Hassan is installed at the Caliphs Palace *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Interlude between Scenes 1 and 2. ** Very quietly - Slower
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: The slaves inform Hassan that there is a beautiful lady... *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Scene 2. The great Hall of the Palace. ** With vigour - Quieter
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: We are in the Great Hall of the Caliphs Palace *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Fanfares in the great Hall of the Palace *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: As morte and more people gather... *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Entry of the Caliph. * Pompously
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: The Caliph declares the trial of the beggars open *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Fanfares *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: Then Rafi King of the Beggars is summoned *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Prelude. * Slow - Passionately -
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: In the Palaces dark vaults *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Interlude between Scenes 1 and 2. * Slow and ponderously
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: Sunlight streams through the cells grating *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Prelude. ** Quick - Slower softer - Not too quick -
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - The song of the Muezzin at sunset * -
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator. With another sunset approaching *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - The Procession of Protracted Death. * March tempo -
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Narrator: The long dreadful execution ensures... *
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Prelude to the last scene * With flowing movement - Slower - Quicker
• Delius - Hassan RT I/9 - Closing Scene. ** Slow -

Hassan, RT I/9:
The Story of Hassan of Bagdad and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand
Complete Incidental Music

Although he had initially declined the commission, Delius was persuaded to write the incidental music for Hassan by the actor and director Basil Dean, in July 1920, for performances he was planning for His Majesty’s Theatre, London, the following year. Much of the music was drafted within a few weeks, and the score would eventually prove one of the greatest successes of Delius’s career. Dean’s plans for the project encountered significant obstacles and delays, however, and he had to commission additional music from Delius to cover the production’s complex scene changes. The London premiere eventually took place on 20 September 1923 and was a critical sensation. Flecker’s play is a sinuous double-narrative that intertwines the twin stories of the lovelorn but worldly wise Hassan, confectioner at the court of the cruel and vindictive Caliph Haroun al Rashid (called Haroun ar Rashid in Flecker’s play), and the young lovers Pervaneh and Rafi, caught up in the aftermath of a failed uprising and condemned to a terrifying and brutally protracted death. In tone and setting, Flecker’s text drew on nineteenth-century English translations of One Thousand and One Nights as well as other heavily fictionalised accounts and travel literature. Very much a product of the racial and class-based attitudes of its time, the play revels in imaginary scenes of a despotic Eastern.