Works. Selections (Sketches): MU.MS.263.p.75

Titles

Works. Selections (Sketches)
[14 sketches] / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Composer: Habermann, František Václav

Categories

• Manuscript (music)

Description

A leaf of sketches, composition counterpoint exercises, fragments or excerpts, possibily from the music of other composers. The only identified sketches are for Jephtha.
Manuscript in the hand of George Frideric Handel.
Complete transcription and analysis of Sketch 7 is in WInton Dean's "Handel's dramatic oratorios and masques" (Oxford U.P., 1959), p. 613.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C150)
1.1.1 treble [Sketch 1] e G-2 xF c 4''ExD{6E'B''xCxD}{6E'B''xCxD}/{EFGA}{8BB}{8.G6F}{ExDEF}/
2.1.1 treble [Sketch 2] e G-2 xF c ''4ExD4.E8F/{GABA}4GF/''4ExD4.E8F/{GABA}4GF
3.1 1 treble [Sketch 3] e G-2 xF c 4.'E8B{B6BB}{8BB}/{BE}{''E6FE}{8xDG}4F/
4.1 1 treble [Sketch 4 (Minuet)] e G-2 xF 3/8 {6'EFGE''C'A}/{8BE''E}/{6xDF'B''BFA}/{GBEG'B''E}/
5.1 1 treble [Sketch 5] g G-2 bBE c 4''GxF/4.G8A{BAGxF}/4GD{8EDC'nB}/
6.1 1 treble [Sketch 6 (Domine Deus)] A G-2 bxFCG 3/4 4'A{8''ED}{C6'BA}/4.G{6FG}4A/{6FEAG}{BA''C'B}{8''DC}/
7.1 1 treble [Sketch 7 (Et in terra pax))] g C-3 bBE c 2,B4-'F/nEBA{8GxF}/{GDEnE}4F
8.1 1 treble [Sketch 8] F G-2 b B c {8''CCCC}{F6CE}{8F6CF}/{8G6CG}{8A6CA}{8B6CA}{BAGF}/
9.1 1 treble [Sketch 9] Larghetto G-2 xFC c 4-6-{''F6.D3'B}{6.F3xA6.''E3G}/{8.F6E}{6.D3C8'B}6-{''FDF}
10.1 1 treble [Sketch 10] A G-2 xFCG c 4''E'A2''F/4.E8D4.C8'B/{8AB''C'A}
11.1 1 treble [Sketch 11] g G-2 bBE c 4-'G{8.''E6F}{8F6ED}/4DGCbD/4.C8'B2B/
12.1 1 treble [Sketch 12] A G-2 xFCG 3/2 2--'A/1B2''D/DC'B/1A2A/GE''E/
13.1 1 treble [Sketch 13] e G-2 xF 3/8 8-{6'ExDEF}/8G4''C/8'B4''E/{6xDEDxC8'B}/
14.1 1 treble [Sketch 14] D G-2 xFC c 4.''D8A{AAAA}/4B{8EE}4A{8DD}/{GF}4E{8D6FG}{8AD}/

Contents
[Sketch 1 (p. 75, lines 1-2)] [Canonic sketch or exercise in 2 parts in E minor, treble and bass, 3 bars] -- [Sketch 2 (p. 75 lines 1-2)] [Canonic sketch or exercise in 2 parts in E minor, treble and bass, 6 bars] -- [Sketch 3 (p. 75, lines 3-4] [2 related sketches in E minor, treble and bass, 4 bars and 3 bars] -- [Sketch 4 (p. 75, lines 5-6)] [Minuet in E minor, treble and bass, 11 bars : used in the Overture to Jephtha, HWV 70] -- [Sketch 5 (p. 75, lines 5-8)] [Sketch in G minor, treble and bass, 10 bars : related to sketch 2] -- [Sketch 6 (p. 75, lines7-8] [Domine Deus] : [from the Gloria of the Missa Sancti Wenceslaus : treble and bass, 7 bars] / [F.V. Habermann : related to the symphony to the aria "His mighty arm" in Jephtha, HWV 70 no. 18] -- [Sketch 7 (p. 75, lines 9-10] [5 sketches in G minor for alto or tenor (without text) , 2-4 bars each : theme from the beginning of the Gloria of Missa Sancti Ludmillae by F.V. Habermann : related to the section "No certain bliss" in the chorus "How dark O Lord" in Jephtha, HWV 70 no. 29] -- [Sketch 8 (p. 76, line 1] [Sketch in F major, in two parts on one stave (treble), 3 bars] -- [Sketch 9 (p. 76, line 2-3)] Larghetto [sketch in B minor, for treble and bass, 5 bars] -- [Sketch 10 (p. 76, lines 4-5)] [Sketch in A major, treble and bass, 10 bars : with amendment of bar 3 added in the left margin] -- [Sketch 11 (p. 76, lines 6-7)] [Sketch in G minor, treble and bass clefs, 7 bars] -- [Sketch 12 (p. 76, lines 8-9)] Adagio [in A major, treble and bass clefs, 9 bars] -- [Sketch 13 (p. 76, lines 8-9)] [Sketch in E minor, treble and bass clefs, 10 bars] -- [Sketch 14 (p. 76, line 10)] [Fugal exposition in D major for four parts on one stave, treble followed by tenor clef, 11 bars]

Dating

Production date: AD 1751 : [England],[1751?]