Current Location: In storage
Titles
Alcina. Selections
Coro & Balli in Alcina [& Ariodante] / [George Frideric Handel]
Maker(s)
Composer:
Handel, George Frideric
Scribe:
Handel copyist S5
Categories
Description
For for chorus and orchestra: the dances are actually from both Alcina (HWV 34) and Ariodante (HWV 33).
Caption title from f. 40.
Manuscript in the hand of Larsen's Handel copyist S5.
Originally paginated 17-31.
Watermark: "WR" below Fleur de lis in crowned shield / "I VILLEDARY"
Copied ca.1736-1741 (see D. Burrows).
Part of the third section of MU.MS.798 (Barrett-Lennard volume 10).
Contents:
[f. 47v] Dall'orror di notte cieca : [SATB, vl1, vl2, vla, bc, cor1, cor2 : HWV 34 no. 39] -- [f. 49] Entrée des songes : Largo e piano [vl1, vl2, vl3, vla, vlc : HWV 33, no. 31] -- [f. 50] Entrée des songes agreables effrayes : [vl1, vl2, b : HWV 33 no. 33] -- [f. 50v] Le Combat des Songes funestes & agreables : vl1, vl2, vla, b : HWV 33 no. 34] -- [f. 52] Gavotte [vl1, vl2, b : HWV 34, no. 3] -- [f. 52] Sarabande : [vl1, vl2, vla b: HWV 34, no. 4] -- [f. 52v] Menuet [ vl, vla, b : HWV 34, no. 5] -- [f. 53] [Gavotte : vl1/ob1, vl2/ob2, vla, fag, b : HWV 34, no. 6] -- [f. 54] Entrée : [vl, vla, b : HWV 34, no. 40] -- [f. 54v] Tamburtino : [fl, vl, vla, b : HWV 34, no. 41]
Measurements and weight
1 ms. score (f. 47v-55) ; 44 cm.
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measurements. We will rectify this as soon as possible.
Dating
Circa
1736
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Circa
1741
Identification numbers
Accession number: MU.MS.798.f.47
Primary reference Number: 279129
ALMA control 001: 994729833803606
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 15 December 2020
Updated: Monday 18 December 2023
Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
