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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 31384-31823

191. Add MS 31560

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Handel's 'Esther, an Oratorio' or 'Haman and Mordecai, a masque', in score, transcribed by John Christopher Smith, the younger.
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ff. 110. 'Esther, an Oratorio,' or more properly speaking, 'Haman and Mordecai, a masque'; for solo voices and 8-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, oboes, bassoons, harp, and strings, in full score, by Handel. It is a transcript of the earlier form of the work, w...
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Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (110 folios)

192. Add MS 31561

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Handel's "Acis and Galatea" : a Serenata. Transcript, in score, by Christopher Smith, the younger; composer:
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ff. 159. 'Acis and Galatea': serenata, in score, by Handel. Unlike the copy in Add MS 5321 (above), the aria, 'Consider, fond Shepherd,' at f. 99b, is here written in the tenor clef and assigned to Damon; the first chorus is also directed to be sung by a canto, 3 tenors, and a bass. Apparently in...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (159 folios)

193. Add MS 31562

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Handel's "Radamiste" or " Il Rademisto ": an Italian Opera, in full score, transcribed by Christopher Smith.
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ff. 112. 'Radamiste': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, trumpets, horns, bassoons, strings, and harpsichord, in score, by Handel, 1720. The present MS is in the hand of his amanuensis, John Christopher Smith the younger, and corresponds with the edi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (112 folios)

194. Add MS 31563

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Handel's "Alessandro" [otherwise " Roxana "] : an Opera in three acts, transcribed, in score, by Rophino Lacy.
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ff. 121. 'Alessandro': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies and accompaniments for horns, trumpets, flutes, oboes, strings, and bassoons, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Handel, 1726. As published by the 'Händel-Gesellschaft' (vol. 72). Characters: Alessandro, Leonato, Ros...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (121 folios)

195. Add MS 31564

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Handel's "Orlando", an Opera in three acts, transcribed, in score, by F. Panormo.
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ff. 164. 'Orlando': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, bassoons, and strings (including violette marine, sc. viole d' amore), in score, by Handel [1732]. Copied in London by F. Panormo, with an index in the hand of Michael Rophino Lacy. In the present MS the ove...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (164 folios)

196. Add MS 31565

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Handel's 'Orlando': Opera in 3 Acts, probably transcribed by John Christopher Smith the younger.
Scope & Content:
ff. 132. 'Orlando': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, bassoons, and strings (including 'violette marine,' sc. viole d' amore), and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Handel, 1733 [composed in 1732]. The handwriting very much resemb...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (132 folios)

197. Add MS 31566

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Handel's "Alcina": an Opera in three acts, in score, transcribed by Rophino Lacy.
Scope & Content:
ff. 55. 'Alcina': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Handel [1735]; preceded by a table of contents [in the hand of Michael Rophino Lacy]. From the absence of the ballets throughout the ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (55 folios)

198. Add MS 31567

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Handel's "Il Convito d'Alessandro": the Serenata "Alexander's Feast" with an Italian version of the libretto.
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ff. 161. 'Il Convito d' Alessandro'; sc. an Italian version of 'Alexander's Feast,' for solo voices and choruses of 4 and 6 voices, with overture and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, flutes, oboes, bassoons, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord or organ, in score, by Hendel, sc. Han...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (161 folios)

199. Add MS 31568

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"Oratorio del Tempo e della Verità", apparently in the revised and rewritten form, in various hands, including suspected Handel's.
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ff. 131. ['II Trionfo] del Tempo e della Verità': Oratorio in three parts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, trumpets, drums, strings and organ, in score, by Handel. The words (as far as they go) and a considerable portion of the music are t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1737
Extent:
1 volume (131 folios)

200. Add MS 31569

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Title:
'Alessandro Severo': Pasticcio in 3 Acts, in score, by Handel, arranged from earlier works of the composer's, with a new overture.
Scope & Content:
ff. 132. 'Alessandro Severo': Pasticcio in 3 Acts, w4th overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for horns, oboes, flutes, bassoons, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. [By Handel, 1738.] Arranged from earlier works of the composer's, with a new overture. Characters, as in...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1738
Extent:
1 volume (132 folios)