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R.M.20.b.11
- Record Id:
- 040-001948632
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001948397
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x00037a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156353376.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- R.M.20.b.11
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: Partenope (dramma per musica after a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia), HWV 27. Autograph
- Scope & Content:
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Versions A in H-G. are in the MS. ff. 4v, 19v, 24v, 74v, 75v, 79v, 84v-85 and 103v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank.
Points of note:
1. f. 5. Act I, sc. 1. The passage in dotted brackets (H-G., p. 5) is in the MS. At the end of Partenope’s recitative the following stage-direction is omitted in H-G.: ‘Si vedono girare intorno l’altare aquile e cigni’.
2. f. 7. Sc. 2. The stage direction (‘Il foco’, etc.) in H-G. (p. 8) is not in the MS.
3. f. 7v. Sc. 3. The stage direction (‘Che conduce’, etc.) in H-G., p.9 is not in the MS.
4. f. 10. Sc. 3. ‘O Eurimene’. The Violin part for the opening bars (H-G., p. 12) is not in the MS.
5. f. 14v. Sc. 5. ‘Atrio Reale’ is not in the MS.
6. f. 16v. ‘Parte’ (H-G., p. 23) is not in the MS.
7. f. 18v. Reversing the volume. Sketches for ‘Io seguo sol’ (Sc. 13) and ‘Voglio amare’ (Act II, sc. 3).
8. f. 25v. Sc. 9. ‘Parte’ (H-G., p. 33) is not in the MS.
9. f. 26. Rosmira’s recitative is followed by an air (not in H-G.) for Arsace: ‘Io son ferito’ (partly crossed out), with ‘l’aria Dim[m]i pietoso ciel’ written beneath.
10. f. 28. ‘Dimmi pietoso ciel’ (H-G., p. 33).
11. f. 34. Sc. 11. ‘Io ti levo’ (H-G., p. 40). The opening phrase of the accompaniment is marked ‘Forte’.
12. ff. 39-45v. ‘Io seguo sol fiero’. The instrumental introduction is much longer than as printed in H-G. (p. 46).
13. f. 45v. ‘Fine dell’Atto Primo January 14’.
14. f. 46v. Act II, sc. 1. ‘La Marche’ is indicated; the music is on f. 75.
15. ff. 47v-48. After the stage direction (‘Segue la pugna…soccorre’) the Sinfonia follows. Then the recitatives on H-G., p. 54 and p. 56. After Rosmira’s words ‘La preda è mia’ several lines of recitative are omitted in H-G.
16. f. 50v. At the end of the vocal ensemble (H-G., p. 58) the MS. has: ‘Partono al suon di trombe’.
17. f. 52v. ‘Barbaro fato’. Pencil note: ‘Ex A. un tono piu alto. per Armindo. l’ultima dell’atto 2do’.
18. f. 55v. The recitatives as printed in H-G., pp. 64-65 are much abbreviated.
19. f. 61v. Sc. 5. The recitatives as printed in H-G., p. 72 are much abbreviated. ‘Qual farfalletta’ (H-G., p. 81) follows immediately at the end of the recitative-duet ‘…alla mia bella’ (H-G., p. 72). ‘Che tumulto’ (recitative, p. 72) follows ‘Qual farfalletta’.
20. f. 67v. The recitatives as printed in H-G., pp. 76-77 are much abbreviated.
21. f. 70v. H-G. places ‘Qual farfalletta’ after Partenope’s recitative: ‘Più d’ogn’altro…piace’. The MS. ends the scene here.
22. f. 72. ‘Furibondo spira il vento’. The words printed in H-G., pp. 86-87 between the staves are those in the MS.
23. f. 74. ‘Fine dell’Atto 2do’.
24. f. 75. ‘La Marche’ (see above, f. 46)..
25. f. 83. Act III, sc. 3. ‘La speme ti consoli’ (H-G., p. 97). Marked ‘Allegro’ in the MS.
26. f. 86. Sc. 4. ‘Ch’io parta’. Marked ‘Senza Basons’ in the MS.
27. f. 92. Sc. 6. End of ‘Ma quai note’ (H-G., p. 106). Stage direction: ‘S’addormenta’.
28. f. 93. Sc. 8. The passage in dotted brackets in H-G., p. 108 is in the MS.
29. f. 97v. The recitative as printed in H-G., p. 112 is abbreviated.
30. ff. 99-100. The last scene (H-G., p. 117) follows the end of ‘La gloria in nobil alma’ (on ff. 97v-99v). The Sinfonia (H-G., p. 115) is not in the MS. The stage direction in H-G., p. 117, line 4, reads in the MS.: ‘Suonano Trombe e Tamburi vengono Rosmira ed Armindo da una parte, Arsace ed Emilio dall’altra’. After ‘conviene’ (p. 117, line 7) the MS. direction is: ‘Armindo presenta la spada ad Arsace ed Emilio a Rosmira e poi tornano Armindo a Rosmira ed Emilio ad Arsace’. The passages in dotted brackets in H-G. throughout the scene are in the MS.
31. f. 101. On p. 118, line 8, H-G. omits (after Partenope’s recitative, ‘Devi far così’) the stage direction: ‘Rosmira resta pensosa e confusa come restò Arsace’.
32. f. 101v. The stage directions (H-G., p. 119, line 5) should read: ‘Partenope. Tu Rosmira? (Discende dal Trono. Rosmira s’inginocchia.)’.
33. f. 104. ‘D’Imeneo le belle Tede’ (not ‘sede’ as in H-G., p. 125).
34. f. 105. ‘Fine dell’Opera G. F. Handel a Londres ce 12 de Fevrier 1730’.
35. f. 105v. ‘NB dopo l’aria di Partenope avanti il coro’. Recitatives (H-G., p. 122).
Silvio Stampiglia, librettist: Handel's 'Partenope' , after a text by Silvio Stampiglia: 1730: Ital.
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- Music Collections
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- 032-001948397
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R.M.20.b.11 : George Frideric Handel: Partenope (dramma per musica after a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia), HWV 27. Autograph - Hierarchy:
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- 1 volume (105 folios)
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- Languages:
- Italian
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- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1730
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- 1730
- Date Range:
- 1730
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- CE
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- Händel-Gesellschaft LXXVII. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), p. 49.
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