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1. R.M.18.a.1

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.18.a.1
Title:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Elvey (Sir George Job). The Rolling Year; May 24, 1850.
Scope & Content:
Birthday cantata for Queen Victoria for solo voices, chorus and full orchestra, in score. With a separate extra copy of the words on a leaflet. Paper. ff. 51+ viii (leaflet) Sir George Job Elvey, organist and composer; d.1893: 'The Rolling Year': 1850: Copy?.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
1 item

2. R.M.18.a.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.18.a.5
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. Invocazione all’Armonia; Dec. 14, 1843. ‘Coro con soli’, and orchestra. Full score, made by Sir Michael Costa and initialled by him. [For another copy not in the hand of Costa see R.M.18.a.10.]. Paper. ff. 22. Sir Michael Costa,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1843
Extent:
1 item

3. R.M.18.c.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.18.c.2
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. II; circa 1729. Copy. Aylesford Collection. Harpsichord arrangements, unless otherwise described. ff. ii + 34. 9 x 11.5 in. 1. ff. 1-3v. Overture to Ottone, ‘as performed’. 2. ff. 4-5v. Overture and opening cho...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1729
Extent:
1 item

4. R.M.19.d.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.19.d.9
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo [HWV 46a; circa 1710. Copy, partly autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft XXIV). Full score of the first (1798?) version. The Overture (entitled ‘Sonata dell’Overtura del Oratorio à 4. con stromenti Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. Del Sig...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1710
Extent:
1 item

5. R.M.20.a.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.10
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Berenice (dramma per musica after a libretto by Antonio Salvi), HWV 38. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. i is a blank leaf at the end of the volume; ff. 41v-42 and 49v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. At foot of page: ‘angefangen Decembr 18. 1736’. 2. f. 3. At the end of the third movement of the Overture: ‘Segue la Giga’. The gigue is not in the MS. (Cf Fi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1736-1737
Extent:
1 volume (i + 77 folios)

6. R.M.20.a.12

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.12
Title:
G.F. Handel: Ezio (dramma per musica after a libretto by Pietro Metastasio) (HWV 29); [1731-1732]. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXXX).
Scope & Content:
Bound at the end is a note by Nicolai (f. i); ff 9v, 22v and 38v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For copies see R.M.19.a.5. (ff. 51-61) and R.M.19.a.7. (ff. 5-8). See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), pp. 2...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1731-1732]
Extent:
1 item

7. R.M.20.c.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.3
Title:
G.F. Handel: Rinaldo (opera seria by Giacomo Rossi after a scenario by Aaron Hill) (HWV 7); [1711, 1731]. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft LVIII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/4.1 and 4.2, 1993 and 1996). Fragments of the 1711 (A) and 1731 (B) versions. ff. 54v and f. ii (at end) are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. See also RM.19.d.5., a copy of the 1711 version with numerous autogr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1711-1731
Extent:
1 item

8. R.M.20.c.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.5
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Rodrigo (dramma per musica after a libretto by Francesco Silvani), HWV 5. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. i is a note in the hand of F. Nicolai. ff. 14v, 85v and 104v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. Overture ‘di G. F. Hendel’[sic]. 2. ff. 4-6. The ‘Matelot’ (f. 4), marked ‘3’, so as to follow the ‘Sarabande’ (f. 5) (marked ‘2’). The ‘Menuet’ (f. 6v) is mark...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1707?]
Extent:
1 volume (i + 106 folios)

9. 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

10. 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)