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R.M.18.c.7
- Record Id:
- 040-001948479
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001948397
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x0002e1
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- R.M.18.c.7
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ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. VII; circa 1733. Copy. Full scores. Aylesford Collection.
ff. i + 104. 9 x 11.25 in.
1. ff. 2-38v. Selections from Orlando (H-G. LXXXII).
(a) ff. 2-3. ‘Gieroglifici eterni’, recit.
(b) ff. 3v-6. ‘Quanto diletto’, recit.
(c) ff. 6v-7v. ‘Imagini funeste’, recit.
(d) f. 8. ‘Itene pur’, recit.
(e) ff. 9-21. Act II, scene 12
(f) ff. 21v-22v. Sinfonia, Act III
(g) f. 23. ‘O voi del mio poter’, recit.
(h) ff. 23v-25. ‘Gia [?] per la man d’Orlando’, recit.
(i) ff. 25v-27v. ‘Tu che del gran tonante’, recit. and Sinfonia
(j) ff. 28-29. ‘Vince incanti’, recit.
(k) f. 29v. Sinfonia Act III, from sc. 9, in shortenend form (not in H-G.).
(l) ff. 30-36v. ‘Sorge infausta’, song.
(m) ff. 37-38v. ‘Per far mia diletta’, song.
2. ff. 39-48v. Songs from from Esther (1732 version, H-G. XLI).
(a) ff. 39-42. ‘So much beauty’, ‘Sung by Wat. Powel’.
(b) ff. 42v-47v. ‘Endless fame’, ‘sung by Senensino’.
3. ff. 49-52v. ‘In the battle fame pursuing’, song, from Deborah (H-G. XXIX).
4. ff. 53-104v. ‘Additional songs in Acis and Galatea’, as performed in 1732 (H-G. LIII).
(a) ff. 53-59v:‘Come la rondinella’, song. (Cantatas, H-G. LIIb, p. 127).
(b) ff. 60-73: ‘Viver e non amar’ chorus (H-G. LIII, p. 80).
(c) ff. 73v-79v: ‘Qui l’augel’, song (H-G. LIII, p. 88).
(d) ff. 80-85v: ‘Smiling Venus’, chorus (H-G. LIII, p. 75).
(e) ff. 86-92v: ‘Nel mio core ritorna’, song, from Pastor Fido (H-G. LIX, p. 42); the words are not in the Libretto of the 1732 ‘Acis and Galatea’.
(f) ff. 93-95v: ‘Sorge il di’, duet (H-G. LIII, p. 2).
(g) ff. 96-97v: ‘Verso gia [?] l’alma’, song (H-G. LIII, p. 98).
(h) ff. 98-99v: ‘Un sospiretto d’un labro’, song. (Cantatas, H-G. LIIb, p. 125).
(i) ff. 100-101v: ‘Del’aquila l’artiglie [?]’, song (H-G. LIII, p. 73).
(j) ff. 102-103v: ‘Lontan dal suo tesoro’, song, from Pastor Fido (H-G. LIX, p. 20).
(k) f. 104: ‘Mi lasci, mi fuggi’, song, from from Pastor Fido (H-G. LIX, p. 26).
George Frideric Handel, composer: Music manuscripts: 18-19th cent: Ital, Eng: Copies.
includes:
- ff. 2-38 Carlo Sigismondo Capece, librettist: Selcetions from Handel's 'Orlando' , after a text Carlo Sigismondo Capece: circa 1733: Ital.
- ff. 39-48 Jean Racine, French poet: Dr John Arbuthnot, physician and wit: Alexander Pope, poet: Selections from Handel's 'Esther' (HWV50) to a libretto by Alexander Pope, and Dr John Arbuthnot after a text by Jean Racine: 18th cent.
- ff. 49-52 Samuel Humphreys, author and librettist: Selections from Handel's 'Deborah' (HWV51) to a libretto by Samuel Humphreys: 18th cent.
- ff. 53-104 John Gay, poet: Alexander Pope, poet: John Hughes, librettist: Selection from Handel's Acis and Galatea (HWV49) to a text by John Gay, with additions by Alexander Pope and John Hughes: 18th cent.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Music Library Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001948397
040-001948479 - Is part of:
- R.M. : Royal Music Library Manuscripts
R.M.18.c.7 : ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. VII; circa 1733. Copy. Full scores.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001948397[0074]/040-001948479
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- Languages:
- English
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1728
- End Date:
- 1738
- Date Range:
- c 1733
- Era:
- CE
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Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford: Bequeathed to by C. Jennens, in 1773.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
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- Names:
- Arbuthnot, John, Dr physician and wit
Capece, Carlo Sigismondo, librettist
Finch, Heneage, 3rd Earl of Aylesford, politician, 1715-1777
Gay, John, poet and playwright, 1685-1732
Handel, George Frideric, composer, 1685-1759
Hughes, John, librettist
Humphreys, Samuel, author and librettist
Pope, Alexander, poet
Racine, Jean, French poet