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Collection Area Music Collections Name Handel, George Frideric, composer, 1685-1759 Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-)

21. R.M.20.c.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.8
Title:
G.F. Handel: Silla (dramma per musica by Giacomo Rossi) (HWV 10); [1714]. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXI). Fragments of the score. f. 15v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For other copies see R.M.19.d.7. and Add. MSS 31555 and 53341. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1714]
Extent:
1 item

22. 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)

23. R.M.20.d.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.6
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Anthems I, HWV 251b, 249b, 256a, 250a. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 8v, 24v, 50v and 99v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-24v. ‘As pants the hart’ (HWV 251b) (H-G. XXXIV, p. 207). f. 1: The Sonata contains some pencilled alterations by Handel. f. 13. ‘Now when I think’ (H-G., p. 220). At the top of the page: ‘Write the Bas [sic] under thi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1716-1720]
Extent:
1 volume (99 folios)

24. R.M.20.d.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.8
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Anthems III, HWV 252, 247, 253, 246. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 4v, 16v, 28v, 33, 59, 101v and 128v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-28. ‘My song shall be alway’. ‘Ψ. ye 89’. (HWV 255) (H-G. XXXV, p. 1). f. 16: End of ‘God is very greatly to be feared’ (H-G., p. 17). f. 17: ‘The heavens are Thine’ (H-G., p. 24). f. 28: ‘Fine’. For co...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1716-1720]
Extent:
1 volume (128 folios)

25. R.M.20.c.1

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.1
Title:
G.F. Handel: Radamisto (opera seria after libretti by Matteo Noris and Domenico Lalli) (HWV 12); 1720. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXIII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/9.1, 1997.)
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. In Acts I and II the MS. agrees with Version A in H-G. The recitatives in Act II, sc. 1 and 2 (H-G., pp. 40-42) are on ff. 65 and 45. The arrangement of the MS for Act III is as follows: ff. 81-83 (HG., pp. 168-175); ff. 83v-84 (H-G., p. 191-192); ff. 85-115 (H-G., pp. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1720
Extent:
1 item

26. R.M.20.f.11

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.11
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. VII. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 7v, 21v and 28v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Arias with Italian text and instrumental accompaniments. ff. 28. 9.5 x 11.5 in. 1. ff. 1-4v. ‘L’insaziabil fantasia risvegli stravaganti desiri’, recitative, and ‘Troppo audace umano stuolo’, air, for ‘Sigr Andre[oni]’. An addition ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1725-c 1745
Extent:
1 volume

27. Zweig MS 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 37
Title:
George Frideric Handel: ‘Floridante’, opera in three acts (libretto Paolo Antonio Rolli): final chorus ‘Quando pena la costanza’ from Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of nine staves. No tempo direction. Headed ‘Coro’ (f. 1r) and with ‘Fine dell’ Opera à Londres ce 28 de Novembre 1721’ at the end (f. 4r). Part of Handel’s composition score of the opera. The discovery of this hitherto missing conclusion to the c...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

28. R.M.20.b.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.2
Title:
G.F. Handel: Floridante (dramma per musica after a libretto by Francesco Silvani) (HWV 14); [1721, 1733]. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXV).
Scope & Content:
The MS. differs considerably from the version in H-G. The part of Rossane was originally written for a Contralto (Maddalena Salvai), but when the opera was revived in 1733 it was sung by a Soprano. Consequently the recitatives for Rossane in the earlier version are different from those sung in 1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1721-1733
Extent:
1 item

29. R.M.20.b.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.7
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Muzio Scevola, Act III (dramma per musica by Paolo Antonio Rolli), HWV 13. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The MS. is damaged by damp throughout. f. 22v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 5. Sc. 1. The scene represents a ‘Padiglione’ (omitted in H-G., p. 5). 2. f. 12. Sc. 3. ‘Pupille sdegnose.’ ‘Andante’ (H-G., p. 13) is not in the MS. 3. ff. 24-26. Sc. 5. ‘Non ti f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (69 folios)

30. R.M.20.b.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.9
Title:
G.F. Handel: Ottone I (dramma per musica after a libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino) (HWV 15); 1722. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXVI).
Scope & Content:
Some missing parts of this MS. and of R.M.20.b.10. are in Fitzwilliams MSS Nos 256, 265. Between ff. 14 and 15 is a leaf ruled with staves, but otherwise blank, not foliated; ff. 21v, 48v, 52v 77v and 78v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. See also R.M.20.b.10.; for copies see Eg. 2918, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1722
Extent:
1 item