Chronicle Title

Chronicle title

Chronicle Title is Delia's 1969 music, consisting of a 22-second trumpet fanfare, for a BBC series of programmes of the same name.

The most successful TV title music that I've composed is probably Chronicle.
   -- Delia in the Soundhouse interview

Robin Carmody dates it to 1969, which corresponds with its tape catalogue entry's date of Jan 1969 and the date on Delia's manuscript headed "CHRONICLE TITLE" of the 1st February 1969.

Copyright

The Performing Right Society's list of works by Delia Ann Derbyshire has:

Title: Chronicle
Writer(s): Derbyshire Delia Ann
Publisher: MS
Work number: T-011.017.256-9 3025770P 
Type: 00/90 [?]
Creation date: 4 January 1986

Papers

• 
  DD114058: Delia's score "CHRONICLE TITLE 1.2.69"
• 
  DD114048: Delia's score "CHRONICLE" (either preliminary notes or something else for the same series)

Score

Score for Chronicle Title

• the LilyPond source file
• a MIDI file that you can listen to

Spectrogram

Availability

• Broadcast from 1969 onwards as the title music of episodes in the BBC TV series Chronicle.
• In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 6991: "Chronicle Title"
• Released in 1979 on BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21.
• Released in 2008 on The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective with brutal noise reduction that removes much of the top end.