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1. R.M.18.e.3

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R.M.18.e.3
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Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Samson; [HWV 57] circa 1770. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft X). Full score. Smith Collection, Vol.11. For autograph see R.M.20.f.6. ff. 139. 14 x 10 in. John Milton, poet: Newburgh Hamilton, author and librettist: Handel's 'Samson' (HWV57) to a libretto by Newb...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:
1 item

2. R.M.18.e.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.18.e.7
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Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Occasional Oratorio; [HWV 62] 18th century. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft XLIII). Full score. Smith Collection, Vol. 15. For autograph see R.M.20.f.3. ff. 153. 14.5 x 10.25 in. John Milton, poet: Edmund Spenser, poet: Newburgh Hamilton, author and librettist: ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. R.M.19.e.7

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R.M.19.e.7
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Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. XXVIII; 18th century. Copy. For voice and figured bass, unless otherwise described. Various handwritings. ff. i + 105. 9 x 11-11.5 in. 1. ff. 1-47v. ‘O praise the Lord with one consent’ ‘Ps. 135’. Chandos Anthe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. R.M.20.d.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.d.4
Title:
G.F. Handel: Alexander’s Feast (libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after a text by John Dryden) (HWV 75); 1736. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/1, 1957). Between ff. 47 and 48 is a leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 47a; ff. 70v and 88v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. The following names of singers occur in the MS.: ‘Sigra. Strada’...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1736
Extent:
1 item

5. 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

6. 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

7. R.M.20.f.12

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.12
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. VI. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Fragments with English words. f. i was removed during recent conservation work; between ff. 17 and 18, 34 and 35 are single folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; between ff. 43 and 44 are 3 blank leaves, not foliated; ff. 4v, 17v, 21v, 34 and 48v are ruled with staves but o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1735-c 1750
Extent:
1 volume ([i] + 51 folios)