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R.M.20.b.12
- Record Id:
- 040-001948633
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001948397
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x00037b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156352660.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- R.M.20.b.12
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: Il Pastor Fido (opera seria by Giacomo Rossi after the ‘tragicommedia pastorale’ by Battista Guarini), HWV 8. Autograph
- Scope & Content:
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The MS. contains fragments only. Between ff. 5 and 6 and after f. 34 are leaves ruled with staves, but otherwise blank; ff. 1v, 30v, 31v and 33v re ruled with staves but otherwise blank.
Points of note:
1. ff. 1-3v. Act I, sc. 6 (?5 in the MS.). ‘Ah! che sperai’, recitative; ‘Segue l’aria Di goder’, air (H-G., p. 21).
2. f. 4. ‘Di goder’. Air, second setting, in B flat major (not in H-G.).
3. f. 6. Act II, sc. 1. The recitative and air (‘Caro amor’) down to H-G., p. 31, line 3, bar 8.
4. ff. 7-19v. Scenes 4-8. (H-G., pp. 34-46).
5. f. 20. Act III, sc. 4. Two pages of the end of the air ‘Tu nel piagarmi’, beginning at H-G., p. 59, line 6, bar 4.
6. ff. 21-22v. Sc. 5. ‘Da allor trionfante’. The MS. has no second part nor repeat, as in H-G., p. 62.
7. f. 23. Sc. 6. At the end of the stage direction (H-G., p. 63): ‘Si replica l’aria precedente d’Eurilla’. ‘L’Aria Secondaste’.
8. f. 23v. Sc. 7. (H-G., p. 64). The MS. is completed from here until the end of Sc. 9 (on f. 34v). [Dated 24 Oct. 1712].
Giacomo Rossi, librettist: Giovanni Battista Guarini, poet and playwright: Handel's 'Pastor Fido' to a libretto by Giacomo Rossi, after a text by Giovanni Battista Guarini: 1712: Ital.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Music Library Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001948397
040-001948633 - Is part of:
- R.M. : Royal Music Library Manuscripts
R.M.20.b.12 : George Frideric Handel: Il Pastor Fido (opera seria by Giacomo Rossi after the ‘tragicommedia pastorale’ by Battista Guarini), HWV… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001948397[0199]/040-001948633
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: R.M.
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (34 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100156352660.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1712
- End Date:
- 1712
- Date Range:
- 1712
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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9.25 x 11.75in.
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=R.M.20.b.12
- Publications:
- Händel-Gesellschaft LIX. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), p. 50.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)