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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31555-31578
Title:: WORKS Of George Frederic Handel. In twenty-four volumes.
Scope & Content:: George Frideric Handel, composer: Miscellaneous works, transcribed chiefly by R. Lacy and C. Smith: 18th, 19th centt.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 24 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31556
Title:: Unpublished portions of the opera of Handel's "Rinaldo", transcribed by Rophino Lacy.
Scope & Content:: ff. 43. Recitatives, generally with a bass only for harpsichord, and a few short marches and symphonies, from Handel's 'Rinaldo.' They were not published in the original edition (1711), but have since (1894) appeared in the Händel-Gesellschaft's 'Versione Prima' of the opera. Characters: Goffredo...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: c 1853
Extent:: 1 volume (43 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31557
Title:: Two settings of the Anthem 'As pants the hart,' in full score, by Handel.
Scope & Content:: ff. 73. Two settings of the anthem 'As pants the hart,' in full score, by Handel. 1. For solo voices and 6-part chorus, with symphony and accompaniments for oboe, two violins, viola, violoncello, and organ with double bass in unison, in the hand of J. Christopher Smith, the elder. This arrangem...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (73 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31558
Title:: "My song Shall be alway": Chandos Anthem, in full score.
Scope & Content:: ff. 44. 'My song shall be alway': Chandos Anthem, in full score, published by Arnold and the Händel-Gesellschaft as No. 7, with this difference, that the trio, 'Thou rulest the raging of the sea,' is here omitted. At the top of f. 1 is written the name 'Green,' which has been crossed out, and tha...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (44 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31559
Title:: Copies of two Chandos Anthems of allied Manuscripts, in full score; Morning and Evening Services in voice-score, by Dr. Blow; and "Dies Iræ" for ten voices, in full score, by Jean Baptiste Lully.
Scope & Content:: ff. 1, 21 Two of the Chandos Anthems, in full score, by Handel, transcribed by John Christopher Smith, the elder. 1. 'As pants the hart': the original version as published by Arnold (No. 8), for solo voices and 3-part chorus, with symphony and accompaniments for 2 violins, oboe, violoncello, and...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (102 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31560
Title:: Handel's 'Esther, an Oratorio' or 'Haman and Mordecai, a masque', in score, transcribed by John Christopher Smith, the younger.
Scope & Content:: ff. 110. 'Esther, an Oratorio,' or more properly speaking, 'Haman and Mordecai, a masque'; for solo voices and 8-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, oboes, bassoons, harp, and strings, in full score, by Handel. It is a transcript of the earlier form of the work, w...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (110 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31561
Title:: Handel's "Acis and Galatea" : a Serenata. Transcript, in score, by Christopher Smith, the younger; composer:
Scope & Content:: ff. 159. 'Acis and Galatea': serenata, in score, by Handel. Unlike the copy in Add MS 5321 (above), the aria, 'Consider, fond Shepherd,' at f. 99b, is here written in the tenor clef and assigned to Damon; the first chorus is also directed to be sung by a canto, 3 tenors, and a bass. Apparently in...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (159 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31562
Title:: Handel's "Radamiste" or " Il Rademisto ": an Italian Opera, in full score, transcribed by Christopher Smith.
Scope & Content:: ff. 112. 'Radamiste': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, trumpets, horns, bassoons, strings, and harpsichord, in score, by Handel, 1720. The present MS is in the hand of his amanuensis, John Christopher Smith the younger, and corresponds with the edi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (112 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31563
Title:: Handel's "Alessandro" [otherwise " Roxana "] : an Opera in three acts, transcribed, in score, by Rophino Lacy.
Scope & Content:: ff. 121. 'Alessandro': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies and accompaniments for horns, trumpets, flutes, oboes, strings, and bassoons, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Handel, 1726. As published by the 'Händel-Gesellschaft' (vol. 72). Characters: Alessandro, Leonato, Ros...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume (121 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31564
Title:: Handel's "Orlando", an Opera in three acts, transcribed, in score, by F. Panormo.
Scope & Content:: ff. 164. 'Orlando': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, bassoons, and strings (including violette marine, sc. viole d' amore), in score, by Handel [1732]. Copied in London by F. Panormo, with an index in the hand of Michael Rophino Lacy. In the present MS the ove...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 1 volume (164 folios)

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