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251. R.M.20.e.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.2
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Cantatas IV. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Cantatas with instrumental accompaniments. Between ff. 25 and 26, 68 and 69 are single folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank foliated respectively 25a and 68a; ff. 1v, 10v, 29v, 55v, 68v and 74v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. f. 1-10v. ‘Armida abbandonata. Cantata a voce S...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (74 folios)

252. R.M.20.e.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.3
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Cantatas V. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Cantatas with instrumental accompaniments. Between ff. 71 and 72 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 71a; ff. 30v, 38v, 58v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. f. i is an inserted leaf with a note in the hand of F. Nicolai. 1. ff. 1-30. ‘Arresta il passo’ ("...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1710
Extent:
1 volume (i + 75 folios)

253. R.M.20.e.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.4
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Cantatas VI. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 40 and 41 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 40a; ff. 49v and 51v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-6v. ‘Mi palpita il cor’ ‘Cantata a Voce Sola con Oboe’ (HWV 132) (partly printed in H-G. LII B, p. 132-155. The MS. contains the whol...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (51 folios)

254. R.M.20.e.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.5
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Cantatas VII. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. 9v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-3v. ‘La Solitudine’. ‘Cantata’. For Alto and figured bass (HWV 121) (H-G. L, p. 107). Unfinished, ending in sketches. The words of the unset recitative (H-G., p. 109) should read: ‘Non v’è delizia humana soave più…dalle cure lontana vivo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1705?-1735?]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

255. R.M.20.e.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.6
Title:
G.F. Handel: The Choice of Hercules (a musical interlude on a text by ?Thomas Morell) (HWV 69). Alceste (music for the play by Tobias Smollett) (HWV 45); 1750. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XVIII, XLVI b; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/31, 1963). Between ff. 58 and 59 is inserted a blank leaf, foliated 58a; ff. 9v and 37v are also blank. See also R.M.20.g.13. (ff. 37-39), R.M.20.f.12. (ff. 7-14), Add. MS. 30310 (ff. 13-34); for a copy see R....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1750
Extent:
1 item

256. R.M.20.e.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.7
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Esther (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 50). Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-67v are the first version (H-G. XL), while ff. 69-80 are the 1732 version (H-G.XLI); between ff. 76 and 77 is inserted a leaf ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 76a; ff. 7, 68 and 76v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. At the end of the volume is a note, dated 23 Septe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1720-1732
Extent:
1 volume (80 folios)

257. R.M.20.e.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.8
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Hercules (a ‘musical drama’ by Thomas Broughton, after texts by Sophocles and Ovidius), HWV 60. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The MS. (cf. the Preface to H-G.) contains the divisions into acts and scenes of the Libretto, but not the directions as to Ripieni, etc., in H-G. Between ff. 57 and 58 is inserted a leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated as f. 57a; ff. 83v, 98v, 133v are ruled with staves but oth...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1744
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

258. R.M.20.e.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.9
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 70. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 111v-112 and 125v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. f. 135 is an inserted leaf with a note in the hand of F. Nicolay. Points of note: 1. f. 24. ‘These labours past’ (Facs. p. 47). All the lower line is cut in pencil down to ‘…they prove’ (top line p. 48). 2. f. 24v. All the lowe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1751
Extent:
1 volume (136 folios)

259. 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)

260. 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)