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R.M.20.c.12
- Record Id:
- 040-001948646
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001948397
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x000388
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156350841.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- R.M.20.c.12
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: Teseo (‘dramma tragico’ by Niccolò Francesco Haym, after a text by Philippe Quinault), HWV 9. Autograph
- Scope & Content:
-
Fragments of Acts IV and V. ff. 5v and 12v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank.
Points of note:
1. ff. 1-3v. Act IV, sc. 1. Recitatives and ‘Voglio straggi [sic]. No ‘Allegro’ is marked (H-G., pp. 69-71).
2. f. 3v. Sc. 2. Recitative (H-G., p. 71) and ‘Benchè tuoni’ ending at p. 73, line 1, end of bar 4. [Continues on R.M.20.f.11, f. 8].
3. f. 5. Sc. 6. Recitatives (H-G., p. 80) from ‘Ma dove è’l brando’ to ‘Agilea? ma non ri-’.
4. ff. 6-7. Act V, sc. 4, 5. From ‘Che saran miei nemici’ (H-G., p. 98, bottom line, bar 2), including the passage in brackets (p. 99), to ‘Agilea beato’ (H-G., p. 100, end of recitatives).
5. ff. 8-10. Sc. 6. Recitatives (H-G., p. 102) to the end of the scene.
6. ff. 10-11. Sc. 6. H-G., p. 105.
7. ff. 11-16. Sc. 7. The recitative for Minerva (H-G., p. 113), originally written for Soprano, has been altered for Bass.
8. f. 16v. ‘Fine del Drama à Londres G F H ce 19 de Decembr 1712’.
Nicola Francesco Haym, composer, poet and theatre manager: Philippe Quinault, librettist: Selections from Handel's 'Teseo' to a libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, after a text by Philippe Quinault: 18th cent: Ital.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Music Library Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001948397
040-001948646 - Is part of:
- R.M. : Royal Music Library Manuscripts
R.M.20.c.12 : George Frideric Handel: Teseo (‘dramma tragico’ by Niccolò Francesco Haym, after a text by Philippe Quinault), HWV 9. Autograph - Hierarchy:
- 032-001948397[0212]/040-001948646
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: R.M.
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (16 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100156350841.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1712
- End Date:
- 1712
- Date Range:
- 1712
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 9 x 11.75 in.
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=R.M.20.c.12
- Publications:
- Händel-Gesellschaft LX. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), p. 76.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)