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

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...
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 ...
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 ru...
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...
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 d...
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: C...
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 Drama...
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: ...
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....
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 lowe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1751
Extent:
1 volume (136 folios)