Delitae Musicae

Shortest Focus Tracks

Though famed for their many longer tracks, Focus have plenty of shorter ones, many under 3 minutes. These are the top 10 stand alone tracks:

1 Delitae Musicae (1:12)

2 Father Bach (1:30)

3 Ship Of Memories (1:48)

4 Le Clochard ("Bread") (1:55)

5 House of the King (2:20)

6 Spoke The Lord Creator (2:28)

7 Moving Waves (2:30)

8 Hard Vanilla (2:36)

9 Tropic Bird/Crackers (both 2:38)

Also note: Focus vocal (2.43) Love Remembered (2:45) Sylvia Live (2:47) No Hang Ups, Early Birth (both 2:54) Janis, Soft Vanilla (both 3:00).

Non-English Titles

Focus song titles are usually in English. These are the exceptions:

French
La Cathedrale de Strasburg (Strasbourg Cathedral)
Le Clochard (The Tramp)

Spanish
De Ti O De Mi (From you or from me)

Croatian
Sto Ces Raditi Ostatac Zivota (Do everything to survive in life)
Blizu Tebe (Close to you)

Dutch
Avondrood (Red evening)

Latin

Delitae Musicae (Delightful music)

We could add too - Anonymus (Anonymous)

Track by track 39 Delitae Musicae

Archive number: 39

Title: Delitae Musicae

Main Album: Hamburger Concerto

Track number: 1

Genre: Elizabethan Instrumental

Studio: Olympic Studios 'B', 117 Church Road, Barnes, London SW13 9HL

Length: 1' 11”

Composer: Anonymous

Musicians: Jan Akkerman – Lute; Thijs van Leer – Recorder

Producer: Mike Vernon

Engineer: Bob Hall

Label: Polydor, Atco, EMI, Red Bullet, JVC, JVC Victor

Date of recording/release: January/March 1974; April 1974. CD – 1998, 2001, 2001, 2002, 2006

Notes: This anonymous 17th Century piece features a simple setting for lute and recorder and sets the mood for the album – a rock album but not as you might expect. The story goes that Akkerman found a manuscript by an old Belgian composer from Antwerp in a London music shop. It was then arranged for lute and recorder with van Leer. It has been suggested that the piece is the work of a J Hove whose lute arrangement of a motet appeared in 1612 as Delitiae Musicae Cantiones. No doubt the Kasteel Groenguerd pictured on the album cover and long used for rehearsals helped create the mood when work began.