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Collection Area Music Collections Name Gay, John, poet and playwright, 1685-1732 Level [40] File

1. Add MS 60600

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 60600
Title:
Benjamin Britten: '[The] Beggar's Opera', op. 43
Scope & Content:
Ballad-opera with words by John Gay and music realized from the original airs by Benjamin Britten. Full score, mostly in pencil, mostly autograph (apart from ff. 124-128v and ff. 139-140v which are in black ink, in the hand of Arthur Oldham, Britten's pupil and assistant). Adhered to the inside...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948-1979
Extent:
1 volume (i + 189 folios)

2. R.M.18.c.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.18.c.5
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. V; circa 1736. Copy. Full scores, unless otherwise stated. Aylesford Collection. Selections from Atalanta (H-G. LXXXVII), the 1732 version of Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (H-G. LIII), and a later alteration of the 1732...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1736
Extent:
1 item

3. R.M.18.c.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.18.c.7
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. VII; circa 1733. Copy. Full scores. Aylesford Collection. ff. i + 104. 9 x 11.25 in. 1. ff. 2-38v. Selections from Orlando (H-G. LXXXII). (a) ff. 2-3. ‘Gieroglifici eterni’, recit. (b) ff. 3v-6. ‘Quanto dilet...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1733
Extent:
1 item

4. R.M.18.c.11

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.18.c.11
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. XI; circa 1742. Copy. Selections from Operas, Oratorios, etc., in full score. Aylesford Collection. ff. i + 225. 9 x 11.25 in. 1. ff. 2-71v. ‘Songs in Trionfo del Tempo e della Verita ’ (H-G. XXIV). For autogra...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1742
Extent:
1 item

5. R.M.19.d.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.19.d.10
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. XXV; 18th century. Copy. Full scores. ‘Additional Songs, &c. 1’ (Lettering on binding). ff. 97. 9.25 x 11.5 in. 1. ff. 2-25v. ‘Ah crudel nel pianto mio’. Cantata (H-G. LIIa, p. 1). ‘Composto a Roma per il Sg...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. R.M.19.f.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.19.f.7
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo; [HWV 72] circa 1732. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft LIII). An incomplete score of the version produced in 1732, with many alterations and notes (in ink and pencil), some in Handel’s hand-writing. The following names of the performers are ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1732
Extent:
1 item

7. R.M.20.a.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.2
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Acis and Galatea, (masque by John Gay, with texts by Alexander Pope and John Hughes), HWV 49. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Points of note: 1. f. 5. ‘Oh the pleasures.’ The Alto, Tenor 1 and Tenor 2 parts are written in the Tenor clef. Name of singers: ‘Mr Blackley’, ‘Mr Row’, ‘Hardres’[?; Burrows and Ronish suggest ‘?Rogers’], over which are written: ‘Ten 1’, ‘Ten 2’ and ‘Ten 3’. 2. f. 10. ‘Ye verdant plains’. ‘Sr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1715-1732
Extent:
1 volume (68 folios)

8. R.M.20.d.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.2
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. II (HWV 49, 22, 6, 20, 21, A14, 73, 27, 27, 28, 12, 19, 18, A5, 25). Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. 14v, 16v, 23v, 30v, 34v, 38v and 52v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. ff. 58. 9.25 x 11.5 in. 1. ff. 1-4v. ‘Vivere non amar’. Solos and chorus from Acis and Galatea (HWV 49)(the 1732 version, H-G LIII, p. 80). Only the first letters of the name of the singers are written. The MS. b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1708-c 1739
Extent:
1 volume