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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...
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...
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.
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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....
George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 70. Autograph
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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...
George Frideric Handel: Judas Maccabeus (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 63. Autograph
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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 ...
G.F. Handel: Occasional Oratorio (libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after texts by John Milton and Edmund Spenser) (HWV 62); 1746. Autograph.
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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...
George Frideric Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (text by John Dryden), HWV 76. Autograph
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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...
G.F. Handel: La Resurrezione (oratorio by Carlo Sigismondo Capece) (HWV 47); 1708. Autograph.
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ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XXXIX). f. i bound at end. Between ff. 47 and 48 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 47a; ff. 45v, 46v, 47v and 56v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For a copy see R.M.19.d.4. See also Donald Burrows and Martha ...
G.F. Handel: Susanna (oratorio, author of the text unknown) (HWV 66); 1748. Autograph.
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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...
G.F. Handel: Theodora (oratorio by Thomas Morell after a text by Robert Boyle) (HWV 68); 1749. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft VIII.)
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ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. ff. 41v, 48v, 56v and 113v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For a copy see R.M.18.f.6. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), pp. 158-160. ff. 113. 9.25 x 11.75in. Points of note: ...
