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1. Add MS 31574

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Title:
Cantatas, in score, by Handel, transcribed by Christopher Smith.
Scope & Content:
ff. 46. Cantatas, with a figured bass for harpsichord and (in the case of nos. 7 and 8) an Add MS part for flute, in score, by Handel. In the hand (except no. 9) of J. Christopher Smith. Nos. 1-6 and 9 are for a soprano voice; the others, for a contralto. Any important variations from the Händel...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Romanian
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

2. Add MS 31558

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Title:
"My song Shall be alway": Chandos Anthem, in full score.
Scope & Content:
ff. 44. 'My song shall be alway': Chandos Anthem, in full score, published by Arnold and the Händel-Gesellschaft as No. 7, with this difference, that the trio, 'Thou rulest the raging of the sea,' is here omitted. At the top of f. 1 is written the name 'Green,' which has been crossed out, and tha...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

3. Add MS 31569

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Title:
'Alessandro Severo': Pasticcio in 3 Acts, in score, by Handel, arranged from earlier works of the composer's, with a new overture.
Scope & Content:
ff. 132. 'Alessandro Severo': Pasticcio in 3 Acts, w4th overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for horns, oboes, flutes, bassoons, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. [By Handel, 1738.] Arranged from earlier works of the composer's, with a new overture. Characters, as in...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1738
Extent:
1 volume (132 folios)

4. Add MS 31567

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Title:
Handel's "Il Convito d'Alessandro": the Serenata "Alexander's Feast" with an Italian version of the libretto.
Scope & Content:
ff. 161. 'Il Convito d' Alessandro'; sc. an Italian version of 'Alexander's Feast,' for solo voices and choruses of 4 and 6 voices, with overture and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, flutes, oboes, bassoons, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord or organ, in score, by Hendel, sc. Han...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (161 folios)

5. Add MS 31568

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Title:
"Oratorio del Tempo e della Verità", apparently in the revised and rewritten form, in various hands, including suspected Handel's.
Scope & Content:
ff. 131. ['II Trionfo] del Tempo e della Verità': Oratorio in three parts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, trumpets, drums, strings and organ, in score, by Handel. The words (as far as they go) and a considerable portion of the music are t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1737
Extent:
1 volume (131 folios)

6. Add MS 31565

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Title:
Handel's 'Orlando': Opera in 3 Acts, probably transcribed by John Christopher Smith the younger.
Scope & Content:
ff. 132. 'Orlando': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, bassoons, and strings (including 'violette marine,' sc. viole d' amore), and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Handel, 1733 [composed in 1732]. The handwriting very much resemb...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (132 folios)

7. Add MS 31563

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Title:
Handel's "Alessandro" [otherwise " Roxana "] : an Opera in three acts, transcribed, in score, by Rophino Lacy.
Scope & Content:
ff. 121. 'Alessandro': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies and accompaniments for horns, trumpets, flutes, oboes, strings, and bassoons, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Handel, 1726. As published by the 'Händel-Gesellschaft' (vol. 72). Characters: Alessandro, Leonato, Ros...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (121 folios)

8. Add MS 31556

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Title:
Unpublished portions of the opera of Handel's "Rinaldo", transcribed by Rophino Lacy.
Scope & Content:
ff. 43. Recitatives, generally with a bass only for harpsichord, and a few short marches and symphonies, from Handel's 'Rinaldo.' They were not published in the original edition (1711), but have since (1894) appeared in the Händel-Gesellschaft's 'Versione Prima' of the opera. Characters: Goffredo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1853
Extent:
1 volume (43 folios)

9. Add MS 31564

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Title:
Handel's "Orlando", an Opera in three acts, transcribed, in score, by F. Panormo.
Scope & Content:
ff. 164. 'Orlando': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, bassoons, and strings (including violette marine, sc. viole d' amore), in score, by Handel [1732]. Copied in London by F. Panormo, with an index in the hand of Michael Rophino Lacy. In the present MS the ove...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (164 folios)

10. Add MS 31570

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Title:
'Jephtha': Oratorio in three acts, in score, by Handel; being the copy used by Dr. Samuel Arnold in the preparation of his edition of the work, after 1786.
Scope & Content:
ff. 225. 'Jephtha': Oratorio in three acts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, flutes, strings, and harpsichord or organ, in score, by Handel; being the copy used by Dr. Samuel Arnold in the preparation of his edition of the work [after 1786]. He has...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (225 folios)