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201. 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)

202. 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)

203. 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)

204. R.M.20.f.1

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.1
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Psalms (Latin) II; 1707. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 29 and 30 is a leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank; f. 29v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-29. ‘Psalmus 112’. ‘Laudate Pueri Dominum’ in D (HWV 237) (H-G., No. II). f. 17v: ‘Suscitans a terra’. The Bass line is marked ‘Primo Organo, etc.’ (not ‘Piano Orga...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1707
Extent:
1 volume (82 folios)

205. 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)

206. 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

207. 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)

208. R.M.20.f.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.6
Title:
G.F. Handel: Samson (oratorio by Newburgh Hamilton after texts by John Milton) (HWV 57); 1741, 1742. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft X). See also the Preface to H-G. According to Barclay Squire the MS. is foliated throughout in pencil by Handel, but Winton Dean, Handel’s Dramatic Oratorios and Masques, London, 1959, p. 362, thinks the foliation is much later. It contains stage dire...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1741-1742
Extent:
1 item

209. R.M.20.f.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.7
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Semele (oratorio after a text by William Congreve), HWV 58. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 5, 12, 79v and 117 are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘Ouverture’. ‘[Here is the astrological symbol for Thursday]. angefangen den 3. June 1743’. 2. f. 4v. Act I, sc. 1. A version of the opening recitative, for ‘Priest or Cadmus’, which has been cancelled...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743
Extent:
1 volume (117 folios)

210. 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