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61. R.M.20.g.12

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.12
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Instrumental music II. Autograph
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-16v. ‘Concerto per l’Organo ed altri stromenti’ (Op. IV, No. 1, HWV 289)(H-G. XXVIII, p. 1). ‘N. 22’ is written in pencil at the top of the page. Other pencilled notes are almost erased and illegible. f. 5v: The MS ends at the last bar of the Larghetto (H-G., p. 6). On the blank stave below...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1738-1751
Extent:
1 volume (74 folios)

62. R.M.20.f.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.4
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (text by John Dryden), HWV 76. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 24v and 42v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘Ouverture to the Song for St Cecilia’s Day by Mr Dryden. 1687.’ ‘begun Sept. 15, 1739. [Here is the astrological symbol for Saturday]. 2. f. 3v. The Allegro is followed by a Minuet (a version of which is printed in ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1739
Extent:
1 volume (42 folios)

63. R.M.20.a.11

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.11
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Deidamia (melodramma by Paolo Antonio Rolli), HWV 42. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 15 and 16, and 76 and 77 are leaves ruled with staves but otherwise blank; ff. 17v, 59v and 78v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 3. Act I, sc. 3. At the bottom of the page: ‘angefangen. [here is the symbol for Monday]. Octobr 27. 1740’. Both sections of th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1740
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)

64. R.M.20.d.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.5
Title:
G.F. Handel: L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato (oratorio by Charles Jennes after John Milton) (HWV 55); 1740. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft VI; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/6, 1962). Between ff. 26 and 27, and 59 and 60 are leaves ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated respectively 26a and 59a; ff. 20v and 26v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. The names of the singers at the v...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1740
Extent:
1 item

65. R.M.20.f.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.2
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Messiah, HWV 56. Autograph manuscript
Scope & Content:
Handel's working compositional manuscript of his oratorio Messiah, in which he set words by Charles Jennens after texts from the Bible. According to the dates added by Handel to the manuscript, the music was largely written between 22 August and 14 September 1741. There are many corrections and amen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1741
Extent:
1 volume (i + 140 folios)

66. R.M.20.e.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.10
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Joseph and his Brethren (oratorio by James Miller), HWV 59. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The Preface to H-G. XLII and the version A printed in the volume contain full information as to the contents of the MS. The following are a few additional details. ff. 108v and 122v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 4v. Overture. The Menuet (H-G., p. 7) is not in the M...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

67. R.M.20.h.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.h.6
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Dettingen Te Deum (HWV 283); 1743. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 25v and 35v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘ʘ [astrological symbol for Sunday] angefangen July 17 1743’. 2. f. 17. ‘Thou art the King of Glory’. ‘Mr Gates’ is named as the soloist. Note at the bottom of the page (end of H-G., p. 55): ’37 pause’. 3. f. 18v. ‘W...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743
Extent:
1 volume (35 folios)

68. Zweig MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 38
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Oratorio ‘Joseph and his Brethren’ (words James Miller, after the book of Genesis), 1743: recitative ‘With Songs of ardent gratitude, and Praise’
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. Headed ‘Joseph’ in the upper margin, the music followed by ‘Segue il Coro Alleluja we will rejoice’, and with ‘Fine dell oratio. [sic] Joseph’ in the lower margin. Joseph and his Brethren was comp...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743-1744
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

69. R.M.20.d.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.10
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Belshazzar (oratorio by Charles Jennens), HWV 61. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 22 and 23, 134 and 135, 159 and 160 are folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank, respectively foliated as 22a, 134a and 159a; ff. 108v, 116v and 159v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘angefangen den 23. Agost 1744 [here is the symbol for Thursday]’...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1744
Extent:
1 volume (i + 167 folios)

70. R.M.20.e.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.8
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Hercules (a ‘musical drama’ by Thomas Broughton, after texts by Sophocles and Ovidius), HWV 60. Autograph
Scope & Content:
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 otherwi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1744
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

71. R.M.20.g.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.7
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Instrumental music III. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 15 and 16, 24 and 25 are single folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; ff. 1v, 10v, 24v, and 29v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-10. Concerto in D major ( for trumpets and French horns HWV 335a; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe IV/16, 1983) (H-G., p. 80)....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1749
Extent:
1 volume (29 folios)

72. R.M.20.e.12

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.12
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Judas Maccabeus (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 63. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 18v, 23v, 38v, 126r and 128v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘Ouverture Oratorio Judah Maccabeus. angefangen den 9 July ♂ [Tuesday] 1746. od den 8 [here is the astrological symbol for Monday] dieses’. 2. f. 17v. ‘Not vain is all this storm’. Version A (H-G., p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1746
Extent:
1 volume (138 folios)

73. R.M.20.f.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.3
Title:
G.F. Handel: Occasional Oratorio (libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after texts by John Milton and Edmund Spenser) (HWV 62); 1746. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XLIII). According to Barclay Squire the MS. is foliated throughout in pencil by Handel [?doubtful]. Between ff. 35 and 36 is an unfoliated single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, originally foliated 36; ff. 2v, 34v, 61v, 68v and 93v are ruled ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1746
Extent:
1 item

74. R.M.20.d.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.3
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Alexander Balus (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 65. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 48v and 113v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 3. ‘angefangen den 1 June. 1747’. ‘Alexander Balus returning from the Conquest of Demetrius, King of Syria and Chorus of Asiatics’. 2. f. 21v. After Alexander’s recitative (H-G., p. 38): ‘Segue l’aria nel terzo atto fa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1747
Extent:
1 volume (113 folios)

75. R.M.20.e.11

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.11
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Joshua (oratorio by ?Thomas Morell), HWV 64. Autograph
Scope & Content:
According to Barclay Squire, the whole MS. has been foliated in pencil by Handel, but this attribution is questioned by Winton Dean, Handel’s Dramatic Oratorios and Masques, London, 1959, p. 510. f. 43v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘Introduzione a tempo di Overt...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1747
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

76. R.M.20.f.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.8
Title:
G.F. Handel: Susanna (oratorio, author of the text unknown) (HWV 66); 1748. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft I; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/28, 1967). f. 49v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. See also R.M.20.f.12. (ff. 26-31); for a copy see R.M.18.f.4. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clare...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1748
Extent:
1 item

77. R.M.20.h.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.h.4
Title:
G.F. Handel: Solomon (oratorio on a libretto by unknown author) (HWV 67); 1748. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XXI). Between ff. 76 and 77, 87 and 88, 110 and 111, 116 and 117, 134 and 135 are unfoliated single leaves, ruled with staves but otherwise blank; ff.32v, 75v and 76v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank [According to Dean, Winton, Handel’s Dramatic ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1748
Extent:
1 item

78. R.M.20.f.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.9
Title:
G.F. Handel: Theodora (oratorio by Thomas Morell after a text by Robert Boyle) (HWV 68); 1749. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft VIII.)
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. ff. 41v, 48v, 56v and 113v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For a copy see R.M.18.f.6. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), pp. 158-160. ff. 113. 9.25 x 11.75in. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1749
Extent:
1 item

79. R.M.20.e.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.6
Title:
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.
Scope & Content:
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.M.18...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1750
Extent:
1 item

80. R.M.20.e.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.9
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 70. Autograph
Scope & Content:
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 lower line (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1751
Extent:
1 volume (136 folios)