[Composition lessons] : [figured bass and fugal exercises and examples] ; [and 7 sketches] / [George Frideric Handel]: MU.MS.260.p.27

Titles

[Composition lessons] : [figured bass and fugal exercises and examples] ; [and 7 sketches] / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Annotator: Novello, Vincent

Categories

• Manuscript (music)

Description

Editorial title.
Mostly published in facsimile with description and notes by Alfred Mann in: Aufzeichnungen zur Kompositionslehre = Composition lessons : from the autograph collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Kassel, 1978) (Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Supplement Band 1)
The music on some pages is duplicated (and of which only the first is reproduced in the facsimile): p. 27=34, 28=33, 42=35. The duplications on pp. 30, 31 and 39 are all reproduced in the facsimile.
Pages 69-72 contain a variant of the fugal exposition from Suite no. 2 in F major, HWV 427, written out in score.
Pages 44, 46, 48, 50 & 53 are of empty staves.
"12 gallons port / 12 bottles french Duke Street / [?]Meal" -- note on p. 40.
"Sonata a Flauto" -- note, unassociated with musical notation, on p. 42.
"James[?] ..... [top of page cropped] / Banker in Lombard Street / pour Mr. Wesselow en France" -- Note on p. 55.
"These are evidently some of the Studies that Handel made for the wonderful Canon that he / has introduced into the "Amen" Chorus at the end of "The Messiah" V. N[ovello]. 1830" -- not on p. 57.
Holograph in ink.
Watermark, p. 27-28: "Cantoni" above and "Bergamo" below triangles in a circle (Burrows Cantoni)
Watermark, p. 29-38, 43-50: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C20)
Watermark, p. 39-43: Three crescent moons ; countermark "AZ" (Burrows Moons AZ20) (ca. 1712?)
Watermark, p. 55-68: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C30)
Watermark, p. 69-72: (Burrows D10)
Contents:
List of sketches: [1] p. 40 [Sketch : 7 bars for treble (vl?) and b in D minor : see HWV 363a 3rd movement (1712?)] -- [2] p. 41 [Sketch : 6 bars (two deleted) for vl1, vl2, vla, S, b, in Bb major : cadential section possbily from an aria] -- [3] p. 57, line 10 [Sketch : 10 bars in treble clef (vl?) in D major] -- [4] p. 62, line 1 [Sketch : 2 bars, treble clef, G major] -- [5] p. 62, lines 2-3 [Sketch for] Low at her feet [from Deborah, HWV 51 no. 37 (1733) : 14 bars, treble and bass clefs, E minor] -- [6] p. 67, line 7 [Sketch : chorale melody? for S (no words) in E major] -- [7] p. 67, lines 8-9 [Sketch for] Vaghe pupille [from Orlando, HWV 31, no. 24 (1733) : 6 bars for S, b]

1.1.1 ob? [Sketch] d G-2 bB 3/4 =4/2.'A+/4.A{6BA}{''DxCFE}/4D
2.1.1 vl1? [Sketch] Bb G-2 bBE c {y6''DE8Fz}{ED}{y6CD8Ez}{DC}/{y6''DE8Fz}{ED}{y6CD8Ez}{DC}/
3.1.1 vl? [Sketch] D G-2 xFC 3/8 {6.''D3C8DB}/A4D/{6.D3C8DG}/F4E/{6FDGEAF}/
4.1.1 vl? [Sketch] G G-2 xF c 2''G4D8-D/4E{8.D6C}'4B
5.1.1 vl? [Sketch] Low at her feet e G-2 xF 3/8 4.'B/{8''BAE}/4.xD/,B/{8''C'BE}/4xD8''E/
6.1.1 S [Sketch] [Untexted] E C-1 xFCGD c 4-{8.G6A}{8BB}{EF}/4G{8.''C6D}{8E'A}{8.F6E}/4E//
7.1.1 S [Sketch] Vaghe pupille, no non piangete F C-1 bB c/ 4'A{6GF}{ED}8CD-E/FG{6AG}{BA}4G-/

Dating

Circa 1712 - Circa 1733