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Add MS 36710
- Record Id:
- 032-002055187
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002055187
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x00009a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 36710
- Title:
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"Acis and Galatea", Serenata with music in score, by George Frederic Handel.
- Scope & Content:
-
ff. 126. 'Acis [and Galatea],' described on the original cover (now pasted inside the upper cover) as 'Mr. Handle's pastoral. The First Compleat Score that ever was wrote out.' At f. 3 is 'The Story of Acis...made into a pastoral by Mr. Pope' (really by Gay), followed at f. 6b by the 'Persons consarnd in ye vocal performance' ('Pallemon,' Damon, 'Corridon,' Strephon, etc.), and 'The order and method of ye performance, also an Indix to the whole'; from which it appears that the greater part of the work is accompanied by 2 violins, 2 oboes, and a thorough-bass for harpsichord, with the occasional addition of 2 flutes and (in the accompaniments to Polyphemus' later songs) a 'duble curtal' (a sort of bassoon). The chorus setting of the words 'Happy we,' which was added by Handel at the time of the revival of the work in 1732, is omitted here.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002055187", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 36710: 'Acis and Galatea', Serenata with music in score, by George Frederic Handel." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002055187
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002055187
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (126 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1732
- End Date:
- 1732
- Date Range:
- before 1732
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Paper folio
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Handel, George Frideric, composer, 1685-1759
- Subjects:
- Cantatas