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761. R.M.20.h.1

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.h.1
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Athalia (oratorio by Samuel Humphreys after Jean Racine), HWV 52. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The autograph has the divisions into Acts and Scenes, as in the Libretto (H-G., pp. 3-11), with some additional directions. f. 57v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 16v. ‘Scena 3 Athalia, Chorus of Attendants to them Abner and Mathan’. ‘Athalia starting out of a ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1733
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

762. R.M.24.f.10-R.M.24.f.15

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.24.f.10-R.M.24.f.15
Title:
R.M.24.f.10-15. ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Tallis (Thomas) and Byrd (William). Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur; 18th century. A late copy, in the same hand as R.M.24.f.4-9. and R.M.24.h.1-6., including prefatory matter, of the edition published in 1575. Paper. Six partbooks.
Scope & Content:
Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: Vocal music: circa 1600-18th cent: Lat, Eng: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
6 items

763. R.M.18.c.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.18.c.8
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. VIII; circa 1738. Copy. Full scores. Aylesford Collection. ff. i + 172. 9 x 11.25 in. 1. ff. 2-124v. ‘Oratorio del Tempo e della Verità’. The version performed in 1737. See H-G. XXIV, and also ‘The Triumph of T...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1738
Extent:
1 item

764. R.M.20.f.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.6
Title:
G.F. Handel: Samson (oratorio by Newburgh Hamilton after texts by John Milton) (HWV 57); 1741, 1742. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft X). See also the Preface to H-G. According to Barclay Squire the MS. is foliated throughout in pencil by Handel, but Winton Dean, Handel’s Dramatic Oratorios and Masques, London, 1959, p. 362, thinks the foliation is much later. It contains stage dire...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1741-1742
Extent:
1 item

765. R.M.14.d.14

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.14.d.14
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Letter, enclosing ‘Thanksgiving Te Deum’; 1872 includes: f. i Sir John Goss, organist and composer: Major-General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby, GCB; private Secretary to Qu. Victoria: Victoria of England: Letter to Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby from Sir John ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

766. R.M.22.d.20

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.22.d.20
Title:
Scope & Content:
(1-7.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Opera vocal pieces; 18-19th centuries. All with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, horns and strings (no.7 also with flutes, clarinets, bassoons and trumpets), in score. Paper. 1. 20 ff. Guglielmi (Pietro): (Enea e Lavinia) Vedrai spietata figlia; 18th cen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item

767. R.M.22.d.23

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.22.d.23
Title:
Scope & Content:
(1-5.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Opera vocal pieces; 18th century-19th century. In score, all with symphonies and accompaniments for instruments as below. Paper. 1. 19 ff. Guglielmi (Pietro Carlo): A compir gia vo l’impresa; 18-19th century. Aria preceded by a recitative; with oboes, horns and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item

768. R.M.20.g.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.2
Title:
G.F. Handel: Ode for Queen Anne’s Birthday (on a text by Ambrose Philips) (Eternal source of light divine, HWV 74); 1713. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XLVIa; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/6, 1962). For copies see R.M.19.e.1., Add. MS. 35347. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), p. 170. ff. i + 36. 11.5 x 9in. Points of not...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1713
Extent:
1 item

769. R.M.21.c.1-R.M.21.c.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.21.c.1-R.M.21.c.4
Title:
R.M.21.c.1-4.(1-3.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. String Quartets; 18th century. Separate parts only. Paper. Four volumes.
Scope & Content:
includes: Tract 1 Felice Giardini, composer: Instrumental music: 18-19th cent: Copies.Tract 3 Joseph Mazzinghi, composer: Music manuscripts: 18-19th cent: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 items

770. R.M.18.d.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.18.d.4
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Athalia [HWV 52]; 18th century. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft V). Full score. Smith Collection, Vol. 3. For autograph see R.M.20.h.1. ff. 128. 15.5 x 11.25 in. Jean Racine, French poet: Samuel Humphreys, author and librettist: Handel's 'Athalia' (HWV52) to a l...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item