Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.
Scope and Contents
The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.
The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.
Dates
- Creation: 1733-1749.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
53 Leaves ; Oblong folio.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
53 folios.
The pieces are divided into five groups numbered 48 to 52, and must at one time have been part of a larger collection.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1950, by Cecil Hopkinson, London.
General
The manuscript described here has been transferred to the Balfour Handel Collection held in the printed book collections of the Library. As such, the resource is to be requested under printed book request procedures through the record in the printed book catalogue. Please check the printed book catalogue when requesting this resource. The printed book reference number is BH.Add.48.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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