Occasional oratorio. When warlike ensigns (1st version) When warlike ensigns : [aria] ; The enemy said I would pursue : [recitative] ; The sword that's drawn : [aria : from part 3 of the Occasional oratorio] / [George Frideric Handel]
Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Five leaves containing the rejected first version of HWV 62 no. 32, the retained version of Recitative A, and the rejected first version of no. 34, removed from the holograph full score and replaced by R.M. 20.f.3 leaves 95-100.
Titles from first lines.
Holograph manuscript in ink.
With notes on the sequence of numbers in part three of the Occasional oratorio above the top stave and down the left hand margin of page 43, below the bottom stave of page 49 (a second line of text mostly missing), and at the top (mostly trimmed away) of page 50.
Pages 43, 51 and 52 crossed through in ink.
Pages 51-52 have a vertical fold-mark down the centre of the leaf.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C110)
Contents:
[p. 43-49] When warlike ensigns : [aria fo S, vl1, vl2, bc : HWV 62 Anhang (32) (first version)] -- [p. 48-49, line 10] The enemy said I would pursue : [recitative for T, bc : HWV Recitative A (following no. 32)] -- [p. 50-52] The sword that's drawn : [aria for B, vl, bc : incipit not in HWV 62 Anhang : incomplete, the last 7 bars are on R.M. 20.f.3, f. 101]
1.1.1 vl Allegro When warlike ensigns G G-2 xF c 8'G/4B''D{6'BAGA}{B''DCD}/{'BAGA} 1.1.2 S Allegro When warlike ensigns G C-1 xF c =13/2-4-8'G/4B''D8'BGB''D/4G--8-'G/4B''D8'BG{6B''DCD}/
1.2.1 T The enemy said I would pursue C-4 c 8-,GG6GG4'C-/8-CCD4E-/8EE,B4'D8-D/
1.3.1 vl Allegro The sword that's drawn D G-2 xFC c 8,A/4'DA{''6DC'BA}{''DC'BA}/{''DC'BA}{GFED}4,A8-'A/
1.3.2 B Allegro The sword that's drawn D F-4 xFC c 8-/=5/2-4-8-,,A/4,DA{'6DC}{,BA}{'DC}{,BA}/4'D8-,A'D{6C,B}8A{6GA}/
1 ms. score (p. 43-52) ; 24 x 29 cm.
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Production date: AD 1746 : [England],[1746]
Handel, George Frideric,1685-1759.
Accession number: MU.MS.259.p.43
Primary reference Number: 276946
ALMA control 001: 994690343803606
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