George Frideric Handel: Cantatas III. Tra le fiamme (cantata on a text by Benedetto Pamphili, HWV 170. Autograph
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Cantata for Soprano, Viola da Gamba and Orchestra. At the end is another leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 14a. 1. ff. 1-14v. ‘Tra le fiamme’. (H-G. LII b, p. 66). includes: ff. 1-14 Benedetto Pamphili, Cardinal, writer: Handel's Cantata 'Tra le fiamme' (HWV170) to a text ...
George Frideric Handel: Cantatas III bis. Autograph
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Cantatas with instrumental accompaniments. Between ff. 37 and 38 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 37a; f. 12v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-37v. ‘Apollo e Dafne. Cantata a 2’. (HWV 122) (H-G. LII b, p. 1). First line: "La terra è liberata"....
Cantatas with instrumental accompaniments. Between ff. 25 and 26, 68 and 69 are single folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank foliated respectively 25a and 68a; ff. 1v, 10v, 29v, 55v, 68v and 74v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. f. 1-10v. ‘Armida abbandonata. Cantata a voce S...
Cantatas with instrumental accompaniments. Between ff. 71 and 72 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 71a; ff. 30v, 38v, 58v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. f. i is an inserted leaf with a note in the hand of F. Nicolai. 1. ff. 1-30. ‘Arresta il passo’ ("...
Between ff. 40 and 41 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 40a; ff. 49v and 51v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-6v. ‘Mi palpita il cor’ ‘Cantata a Voce Sola con Oboe’ (HWV 132) (partly printed in H-G. LII B, p. 132-155. The MS. contains the whol...
f. 9v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-3v. ‘La Solitudine’. ‘Cantata’. For Alto and figured bass (HWV 121) (H-G. L, p. 107). Unfinished, ending in sketches. The words of the unset recitative (H-G., p. 109) should read: ‘Non v’è delizia humana soave più…dalle cure lontana vivo...
G.F. Handel: The Choice of Hercules (a musical interlude on a text by ?Thomas Morell) (HWV 69). Alceste (music for the play by Tobias Smollett) (HWV 45); 1750. Autograph.
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ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XVIII, XLVI b; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/31, 1963). Between ff. 58 and 59 is inserted a blank leaf, foliated 58a; ff. 9v and 37v are also blank. See also R.M.20.g.13. (ff. 37-39), R.M.20.f.12. (ff. 7-14), Add. MS. 30310 (ff. 13-34); for a copy see R....
George Frideric Handel: Esther (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 50). Autograph
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ff. 1-67v are the first version (H-G. XL), while ff. 69-80 are the 1732 version (H-G.XLI); between ff. 76 and 77 is inserted a leaf ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 76a; ff. 7, 68 and 76v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. At the end of the volume is a note, dated 23 Septe...
George Frideric Handel: Hercules (a ‘musical drama’ by Thomas Broughton, after texts by Sophocles and Ovidius), HWV 60. Autograph
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The MS. (cf. the Preface to H-G.) contains the divisions into acts and scenes of the Libretto, but not the directions as to Ripieni, etc., in H-G. Between ff. 57 and 58 is inserted a leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated as f. 57a; ff. 83v, 98v, 133v are ruled with staves but oth...
George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 70. Autograph
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ff. 111v-112 and 125v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. f. 135 is an inserted leaf with a note in the hand of F. Nicolay. Points of note: 1. f. 24. ‘These labours past’ (Facs. p. 47). All the lower line is cut in pencil down to ‘…they prove’ (top line p. 48). 2. f. 24v. All the lowe...
