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2041. 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)

2042. Add MS 31568

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"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)

2043. Add MS 31569

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'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)

2044. Add MS 31571

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Transcripts made by John Christopher Smith from Operas by Handel, in score; taken from: "Pastor Fido", "Muzio Scævola", "Ottone", "Floridante", "Tamerlano", "Giulio Cesare" "Rodelinda" and "Alessandro".
Scope & Content:
ff. 135. Transcripts made by John Christopher Smith from Operas by Handel, in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are arias. The symphonies and accompaniments are generally for violins or mixed strings, with the occasional addition of oboes (which are, however, only once named—in no. 1). ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (134 folios)

2045. Add MS 31572

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Songs from Operas, all (with one exception) by Handel, in score. taken principally from "Ottone and " Flavio", "Alceste", "Admeto", "Semiramide", "Orlando", "Parnasso in Festa".
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-171b. Selections from Operas, all (with one exception) by Handel, in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are arias, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings. Almost all of them were published by Walsh. Nos. 1-9, 11-22 (some described as 'Add MS Songs'), 46-50 ('Add MS Songs') ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1734
Extent:
1 volume (178 folios)

2046. Add MS 31573

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Rough transcripts, by Rophino Lacy, of a collection of compositions of Handel's works, including: "Magnificat, del Rd. Sigr. Erla", and "Long live the Queen", and various others.
Scope & Content:
ff 1-32b. 'Magnificat’ in A minor; for 2 choirs, with accompaniments for oboes, strings, and organ, in score. Transcribed by Michael Rophino Lacy from the Sacred Harmonic Society's copy (now in the possession of the Royal College of Music). At the top of this copy is written 'Del Rd Sigr Erba,’ ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (81 folios)

2047. 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)

2048. Add MS 31576

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Concertos, or portions of concertos, in score, including works by Handel, Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Franz Xavier? Richter, Giovanni Battista Martini, Nicolò Jommelli, Francesco Geminiani.
Scope & Content:
passim Movements from concertos by Handel (op. 3 and op. 6). passim Concertos, or portions of concertos, in score (some of them in short score, with figured basses). Except where the contrary is stated, they are by Handel, namely nos. 1-6, 11-14, 18, and 19, from op. 6 ['Twelve Grand Concertos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

2049. Add MS 31578

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Title:
Songs and duets, apparently all from Operas, in full score; including also compositions, by Giuseppe Sarti, Johann Christian Bach, Giovanni Paisiello, Pietro Terziani.
Scope & Content:
ff. 73. Collection of vocal pieces, apparently all from Operas, with instrumental accompaniments, in score, made by, and partly in the hand of, R. J. S. Stevens. Nos. 2, 3, 6, and 7 are duets. Unless the contrary is stated, the accompaniments are for strings, with a bass, usually figured, for pi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1793
Extent:
1 volume (73 folios)

2050. Add MS 31579

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Title:
Chamber music, in parts, by Benedetto Marcello.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-15 Concerto in D for violin, with 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, and a bass (occasionally figured for harpsichord), in parts, by Benedetto Marcello, who describes himself as 'Nob[ile] Ven[eziano].' Autograph. The first violin part is in duplicate. ff. 16-49b 'Sinfonie a Quatro,' in p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1st half 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (49 folios)

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