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91. R.M.20.c.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.6
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Scipione (dramma per musica by Paolo Antonio Rolli), HWV 20. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. i, bound at end, is a note in the hand of F. Nicolai. ff. 11v and 31v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 10. Act I, sc. 1. ‘Un caro amante’. A cut of two pages hads been made between H-G., p. 13, line 2, bars 3 and 4. 2. f. 17. ‘Libera chi non è’, aria (H-G.,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1726
Extent:
1 volume (i + 101 folios)

92. R.M.20.c.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.7
Title:
G.F. Handel: Serse (dramma per musica after libretti by Niccolò Minato and Silvio Stampiglia) (HWV 40); 1737-1738. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XCII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/39, 1958). ff. 22v, 35v, 54v and 91v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For an harpsichord version of the Overture see R.M.19.a.1. (ff. 144v-147). See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of H...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1737-1738
Extent:
1 item

93. R.M.20.c.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.8
Title:
G.F. Handel: Silla (dramma per musica by Giacomo Rossi) (HWV 10); [1714]. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXI). Fragments of the score. f. 15v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For other copies see R.M.19.d.7. and Add. MSS 31555 and 53341. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1714]
Extent:
1 item

94. R.M.20.c.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.9
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Siroe (‘dramma per musica’ by Niccolò Francesco Haym after a text by Pietro Metastasio), HWV 24. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 62v, 66v and 75v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1v. The lowest line of the Allegro (H-G, p. 2) is marked: ‘Violonc: Contrabassi Cemb.’ The ‘Introduzione’ (H-G., p.6) is on f. 85, crossed out in ink. 2. f. 11. Act I, sc. 5. ‘D’ogni amator’ (H-G., pp. 16-1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1728
Extent:
1 volume (90 folios)

95. R.M.20.c.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.10
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Sosarme (‘dramma per musica’ after a libretto by Antonio Salvi), HWV 30. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The libretto was originally called ‘Fernando Re di Castiglia’, and the action took place at Coimbra. The first two acts were set to this book, but the names were then changed. The opera became ‘Sosarme Re di Media’, the action laid at ‘Sardi’, Fernando became ‘Sosarme; Alfonso – Argone; Sancio –...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1732
Extent:
1 volume (89 folios)

96. R.M.20.c.11

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.11
Title:
G.F. Handel: Tamerlano (‘dramma per musica’ by Niccolò Francesco Haym, after a libretto by Agostino Piovene) (HWV 18); 1724. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXIX; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/15, 1996.)
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. ff. 9v, 12v, 50v, 62, 77, 81v, 87v, 99v, 112v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. See also R.M.20.d.2. (ff. 41-52); for other copies see Egerton 2920, R.M.18.c.3. (ff. 15-22), R.M.18.c.10. (ff. 92-100), R.M.19.a.1. (ff. 120-122). See also Donald Burrows and Marth...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1724
Extent:
1 item

97. R.M.20.c.12

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.12
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Teseo (‘dramma tragico’ by Niccolò Francesco Haym, after a text by Philippe Quinault), HWV 9. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Fragments of Acts IV and V. ff. 5v and 12v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. ff. 1-3v. Act IV, sc. 1. Recitatives and ‘Voglio straggi [sic]. No ‘Allegro’ is marked (H-G., pp. 69-71). 2. f. 3v. Sc. 2. Recitative (H-G., p. 71) and ‘Benchè tuoni’ ending at p. 73, line...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1712
Extent:
1 volume (16 folios)

98. R.M.20.d.1

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.1
Title:
G.F. Handel: Tolomeo (dramma per musica by Niccolò Francesco Haym, after a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece) (HWV 25); 1728. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXXVI). Between ff. 29 and 30 is a leaf ruled with staves but otherwise blank foliated 29a. ff. 80. 9.5 x 11.75in. Points of note: 1. f. 4. Overture. At the end: ‘Atto Scena 1. Strada di Roma con Arco Trionfale per dove entra Genserico’, etc., fol...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1728
Extent:
1 item

99. R.M.20.d.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.2
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. II (HWV 49, 22, 6, 20, 21, A14, 73, 27, 27, 28, 12, 19, 18, A5, 25). Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. 14v, 16v, 23v, 30v, 34v, 38v and 52v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. ff. 58. 9.25 x 11.5 in. 1. ff. 1-4v. ‘Vivere non amar’. Solos and chorus from Acis and Galatea (HWV 49)(the 1732 version, H-G LIII, p. 80). Only the first letters of the name of the singers are written. The MS. b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1708-c 1739
Extent:
1 volume

100. 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