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51. R.M.20.a.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.8
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Arminio (dramma per musica after a libretto by Antonio Salvi), HWV 36. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 39r, 80v, 81r are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 5. On foot of the page ‘Mitt[woch?] angefangen Sept 15 1736’. 2. f. 26. ‘Fine dell’Atto Primo Sept 19. 1736’. 3. f. 48. ‘Fine dell’Atto 2do Sept 26. 1736’. 4. ff. 71v-78. Act III, sc. 8. The recitative (‘Perchè mi div...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1736
Extent:
1 volume (81 folios)

52. R.M.20.a.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.9
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Atalanta (dramma per musica after a libretto by Belisario Valeriani, HWV 36. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. 68v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 23. ‘Fine dell’Atto 1. April 9. 1736’. 2. f. 44. ‘Fine dell’Atto 2do April 14. 1736’. 3. ff. 51v-61. Act III, sc. 6 (H-G., p. 68). The arrangement of the MS. is as follows: f.51v: Recitatives down to ‘vostro core’. f. 52: Air for...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1736
Extent:
1 volume (68 folios)

53. R.M.20.b.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.4
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Giustino (dramma per musica after libretti by Niccolò Berengani and Pietro Pariati), HWV 37). Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 4 and 5, 29 and 30, 79 and 80 are folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; ff. 4v and 62v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1-6v. Overture. ‘Agost 14. 1736’ at foot of f. 1. The Overture seems originally to have been shorter. The places f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1736
Extent:
1 volume (91 folios)

54. R.M.20.d.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.4
Title:
G.F. Handel: Alexander’s Feast (libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after a text by John Dryden) (HWV 75); 1736. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/1, 1957). Between ff. 47 and 48 is a leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 47a; ff. 70v and 88v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. The following names of singers occur in the MS.: ‘Sigra. Strada’, ‘M...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1736
Extent:
1 item

55. R.M.20.a.13

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.13
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Faramondo (dramma per musica after a libretto by Apostolo Zeno), HWV 39. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The numbering of the scenes in the MS is different from that in H-G. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘angefangen den 15 Novembr 1737 Dienstag’. 2. f. 12v. Act I, sc. 5. The passage printed within dotted brackets in H-G., p. 18, are in the MS. 3. ff. 13, 16-18. A setting of ‘Vanne che più ti miro’ not in H-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1737
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)

56. R.M.20.d.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.9
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Anthems IV. Anthem for Queen Caroline’s Funeral (The Ways of Zion, HWV 264. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Italian words are added throughout, sometimes in pencil, with altered notes to fit the Italian text. At end a folio ruled with stave but otherwise blank (f. 48a). Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘Largo assai’. Several bars are cancelled (in pencil) between bars 2 and 3, line 3 of H-G., p.1. 2. f. 2. ‘The A...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1737
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

57. R.M.20.f.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.10
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo (oratorio by Benedetto Pamphili), HWV 46. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Fragments of the 1737 version. The Overture (on ff. 69-78) and many notes and corrections in Handel’s autograph. Between ff. 16 and 17 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; f.19v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘Qual veggo il mio se...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1737
Extent:
1 volume (39 folios)

58. R.M.20.c.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.7
Title:
G.F. Handel: Serse (dramma per musica after libretti by Niccolò Minato and Silvio Stampiglia) (HWV 40); 1737-1738. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XCII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/39, 1958). ff. 22v, 35v, 54v and 91v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For an harpsichord version of the Overture see R.M.19.a.1. (ff. 144v-147). See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Hande...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1737-1738
Extent:
1 item

59. R.M.20.g.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.3
Title:
G.F. Handel: Saul (oratorio by Charles Jennens) (HWV 53); 1738. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XIII; Hallische Händel-AusgabeI/13, 1962). The MS. has so many alterations and cut that it is difficult to understand. The following is its arrangement. Between ff. 130 and 131 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; ff. 23v...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1738
Extent:
1 item

60. R.M.20.b.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.5
Title:
G.F. Handel: Imeneo (dramma per musica after a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia) (HWV 41); 1738-1740. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft XCIII).
Scope & Content:
The MS. is incomplete, and the arrangement difficult to understand (cf. Charles Burney, A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period, London 1789, vol. IV, p. 433, and the Preface to H-G.). The MS. contains practically all that is printed in H-G., excepting the Overture, w...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1738-1740
Extent:
1 item