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R.M.20.b.8
- Record Id:
- 040-001948629
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001948397
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x000377
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156353288.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- R.M.20.b.8
- Title:
- G.F. Handel: Orlando (dramma per musica after a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece) (HWV 31); 1732. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXXXII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/28, 1969). See also the Preface to H-G. LXXXII. f. 89v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For copies see R.M.19.f.5., Add. MSS 31564, 31565; for selections see R.M.18.c.6. (ff. 1-4), R.M.18.c.7. (ff. 2-38). See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), pp. 44-45.
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 89. 9.25 x 11.5in.
Points of note:
1. f. 5v. Act I, sc. 2. A ‘Sinfonia. Andante’ of eight bars is crossed out after the stage directions (H-G., p. 7).
2. f. 20. Sc. 5. The recitative (H-G., p. 22) is on f. 52. At the end of ‘Ritorna al suo bel viso’: ‘Attacca il Recit. Angelica. Spera il mio ben’.
3. f. 21. Sc. 6. Recitatives for Medoro and Angelica at the beginning of the scene (Scene 5 in the MS.) are crossed out.
4. ff. 23v-24. Sc. 7. ‘Se’l cor mai’ (H-G., p. 26) is shortened by crossed out passages.
5. ff. 28-32. Sc. 10. ‘Fammi combattere’ (H-G., p. 33). Three leaves (ff. 28v-29v) as originally set have been crossed out.
6. f. 61v. Act II. ‘Fine dell’Atto 2do Nov. 10’. The rest of the page contains a sketch (Treble and Bass only) for the Sinfonia (H-G., p. 73), crossed out in ink.
7. f. 62. A similar sketch (crossed out), unfinished.
8. f. 63. Act III. ‘Scena 1’. (As in H-G., p. 73).
9. f. 73-76. ‘Sorge infausta’ (H-G., p. 88) is marked ‘Allegro’. The air was originally longer, 16 bars being cut (in pencil) after H-G., p. 89, last line, last bar, and further cuts after the end of p. 90, line 2, bar 1.
10. f. 89. ‘Fine dell’Opera G. F. Handel November 20 1732’.
Carlo Sigismondo Capece, librettist: Handel's 'Orlando' , after a text by Carlo Sigismondo Capece: 18th cent: Ital.
George Frideric Handel, composer: Music manuscripts: 18th cent: Autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Music Library Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001948397
040-001948629 - Is part of:
- R.M. : Royal Music Library Manuscripts
R.M.20.b.8 : G.F. Handel: Orlando (dramma per musica after a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece) (HWV 31); 1732. Autograph.… - Hierarchy:
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1732
- End Date:
- 1732
- Date Range:
- 1732
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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