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

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 b...
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 pri...
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 section...
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 t...
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 an...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1741
Extent:
1 volume (i + 140 folios)

66. 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 wa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743-1744
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

67. 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 i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

68. 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...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743
Extent:
1 volume (35 folios)

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 Thur...
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 oth...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1744
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)