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R.M.20.f.4
- Record Id:
- 040-001948675
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001948397
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x0003a5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156351958.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- R.M.20.f.4
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (text by John Dryden), HWV 76. Autograph
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 24v and 42v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank.
Points of note:
1. f. 1. ‘Ouverture to the Song for St Cecilia’s Day by Mr Dryden. 1687.’ ‘begun Sept. 15, 1739. [Here is the astrological symbol for Saturday].
2. f. 3v. The Allegro is followed by a Minuet (a version of which is printed in Walsh Book I. of ‘Handel’s Favourite Minuets’ (circa 1755), p. 56): this is crossed out in pencil, and followed by the Minuet in H-G., p. 6.
3. f. 4. ‘From Harmony’ (and elsewhere in the Tenor solos): ‘Mr Beard’.
4. f. 13. ‘What passion cannot Music’ (and elsewhere in the Soprano solos); ‘Sra Francesina’.
5. f. 25. ‘The soft complaining flute’. ‘E sordini’ (H-G., p. 39) is not in the MS.
6. f. 26v. ‘Sharp violins proclaim’. Written in the Tenor clef, with Beard’s name against it. There seems to be no reason for allotting it (as in H-G., p. 43) to Tenor or Soprano.
7. f. 34v. ‘The dead shall live’. The passage in dotted brackets in H-G., pp. 63-71, is in the MS.
8. f. 42. ‘Fine. G. F. Handel Septembr 24. 1739. [Here is the astrological symbol for Monday]’
John Dryden, poet and dramatist: Handel's 'Ode for St. Cecilia's Day' (HWV76) to a libretto by John Dryden: 1739-1767.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Music Library Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001948397
040-001948675 - Is part of:
- R.M. : Royal Music Library Manuscripts
R.M.20.f.4 : George Frideric Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (text by John Dryden), HWV 76. Autograph - Hierarchy:
- 032-001948397[0241]/040-001948675
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: R.M.
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (42 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100156351958.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1739
- End Date:
- 1739
- Date Range:
- 1739
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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10.25 x 11.5 in.
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=R.M.20.f.4
- Publications:
- Händel-Gesellschaft XXIII). See also the Preface to H-G. XXIII. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), p. 143.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)