Scipione. Selections: MU.MS.257.p.1

Titles

Scipione. Selections
[Scipione] : [sections from the full score] / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Scribe: Smith, John Christopher (sen)

Categories

• Manuscript (music)

Description

Sections from the conducting score of the 1726 version, and amendments made for the performances in 1730; the rest of the score, lacking these pages is D Hs M A/1049.
Manuscript in the hand of J.C. Smith, partly holograph on p. 45-52.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (p. 45-52 are Burrows C30)
Contents:
[1] (p. 1-4, 1726 version) Scena 4. Giardino. Scipione e poi Lelio "O quante grazie" ; Scena 5a. Armira e detto "Armire e per che mesta" ; Armira l'aria "Libera chi non è" [HWV 20, no. 6] -- [2] (p. 5-6, 1726 version with cuts probably for 1730) [Act 2, scene 1, recitative] Ernando [& Lelio] "Mercè del vincitor" [with sections crossed out] -- [3] (p. 7-20, 1726 version) [Act 2, scene 3, end of Come onda incalza altr'onda, HWV 20 no. 18] ; Scena 4. Armira e Lelio "Importuno tu sei" ; [aria] Lelio "Temo che lusinghiero" [HWV 20, no. 19] ; [recitativo] Armira "Lusingarlo mi giova" ; [aria] Voglio contenta allor" [HWV, 20, no. 20, incomplete at end] -- [4] (p. 22-24, 1726? version) (p. 22, in an unidentified hand) Atto Terzo. Scena 1a. Scipione [recitativo accompagnato] "Miseri affetti miei" [melody of recitative is as for 1726, the introductory Largo and accompaniments for strings are not recorded elsewhere, and are not holograph or J.C. Smith] ; (p. 23-24, in Smith's hand) Scip. "Miseri affetti miei [1726 melody, crossed out] ; Scena 2 [crossed out] Lelio, Ernanco et detto "Scipione a privata" -- [5] (p. 25-28, 1726 version) [Recitativo accompagnato] Scip[ione] "Il poter quelche brami" [HWV 20, no. 24, incomplete at end] -- [6] (p. 29-44, 1730 version) [end of recitative] ; L'aria. Berenice "Già cessata è la procella" [note in another hand:] aria ex Riccardo [HWV 20, no. 27b], [note at end on p. 32:] Fine dell' Atto Secondo [crossed out] ; (p. 33) Atto Terzo [crossed out] Scena 1a [changed to] 3a. Sala di trono. Sinfonia [for orchestra in F major, HWV 20, no. 28a] ; Scipione assiso che receve Ernando e Rosalba ... [recitativo] "All'invito" ; Scena 6a. Berenice e detti "Oh dolce figlia" ; L'aria "Gioia si sperisi" [HWV 20 no. 29] ; [recitativo] Rosalba "Nulla temer da un genoroso core" [crossed out] [HWV 20, Anh.] ; [aria] "Generoso chi sol brama" [incomplete] [crossed out] [HWV 20, Anh.] -- [7] (p. 45-52, 1730 version) Atto 1o. Scena 2da. Lelio ed Armira "Ascrivo a mia gran sorte" ; [aria] "Lusinghe più care" [HWV 20, 1730/31, no. 5]

Dating

1726 - 1730