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781. R.M.18.e.7

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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

782. R.M.20.b.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.4
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Giustino (dramma per musica after libretti by Niccolò Berengani and Pietro Pariati), HWV 37). Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 4 and 5, 29 and 30, 79 and 80 are folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; ff. 4v and 62v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1-6v. Overture. ‘Agost 14. 1736’ at foot of f. 1. The Overture seems originally to have been shorter. The p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1736
Extent:
1 volume (91 folios)

783. R.M.20.b.5

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R.M.20.b.5
Title:
G.F. Handel: Imeneo (dramma per musica after a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia) (HWV 41); 1738-1740. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft XCIII).
Scope & Content:
The MS. is incomplete, and the arrangement difficult to understand (cf. Charles Burney, A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period, London 1789, vol. IV, p. 433, and the Preface to H-G.). The MS. contains practically all that is printed in H-G., excepting the Overtur...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1738-1740
Extent:
1 item

784. R.M.21.c.41

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R.M.21.c.41
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Scope & Content:
(1-6.) ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Instrumental music; 18th century. Paper. 1. 13 ff. Festing (Michael Christian): 2 Concertos. Separate parts for two concertos, the first in G major for 2 violins, viola, cello, bass and oboe, with the second concerto in F major for the same with a second oboe als...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

785. R.M.23.d.4

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R.M.23.d.4
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Scope & Content:
(1-10.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Opera arias and duets; 18th century. With symphonies and accompaniment for instruments as listed below, in score. Paper. 1. 7 ff. Sarri (Domenico): Sà il mio cor. Duet; with strings. 2. 6 ff. Porta (Giovanni): Cara, addio, morir mi sento. Duet from an opera; w...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

786. R.M.22.k.12-R.M.22.k.13

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R.M.22.k.12-R.M.22.k.13
Title:
R.M.22.k.12-13. ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Paisiello (Giovanni). Le Gare Generose o sia Gli Schiavi per Amore; late 18th century. ‘Burletta in Musica … in due Atti …’; with flutes, oboes, bassoons, trumpets, horns and strings, in full score. Copied by ‘L. De Michele Copista del Opera in Londra’. Paper. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:
L. de Michele, music copyist: Music manuscripts , in the hand of L. de Michele: 18th cent. Giovanni Paisiello, composer: Music manuscripts: late 18-19th cent: Ital, Eng, Lat: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
2 items

787. R.M.23.a.4-R.M.23.a.6

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R.M.23.a.4-R.M.23.a.6
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R.M.23.a.4-6. ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Porpora (Nicolo Antonio). Ifigenìa; after 1735. Opera in 3 acts, ‘Poesia del Sigr Paolo Rolli’, performed ‘In Londra 1735’, with an overture; with oboes, flutes (traversi), bassoons, trumpets, horns and strings, in score. Paper. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:
Paolo Antonio Rolli, dramatist: Music manuscripts , text by Paolo Antonio Rolli: 18th cent. Nicola Porpora, composer: Music manuscripts: 18th cent: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1735
Extent:
3 items

788. R.M.23.a.7-R.M.23.a.9

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R.M.23.a.7-R.M.23.a.9
Title:
R.M.23.a.7-9. ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Porpora (Nicolo Antonio). Polifemo; 1735. Opera in 3 acts, ‘Poesia del Paolo Rolli’, performed ‘In Londra 1735’, preceded by an overture; with oboes, flutes (traversi), bassoons, trumpets, horns and strings, in score. Paper. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:
Paolo Antonio Rolli, dramatist: Music manuscripts , text by Paolo Antonio Rolli: 18th cent. Nicola Porpora, composer: Music manuscripts: 18th cent: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1735
Extent:
3 items

789. R.M.23.f.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.23.f.9
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Scope & Content:
(1-12.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Duets; 18th century. In score, with a bass. For no. 12 the volume is reversed. Paper. 1. 3 ff. Torri (Pietro): Se potessi al seno stringere. [This piece is ascribed to Steffani in Add MS 5331 and entitled ‘Se potessi almeno’]. [For another contemporary copy see...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

790. R.M.18.f.1

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.18.f.1
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Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Judas Maccabeus; [HWV 63] 1766. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft XXII). Full score. Written by R.S.; Smith Collection, Vol. 17. For autograph see R.M.20.e.12; for another copy see R.M.18.f.10. ff. 217. 14.75 x 19.5 in. Robert Smith, of St Paul's Churchyard: Works...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1766
Extent:
1 item