- Berenice : Opera Composta per il Sgr G:F: Handel : Comminciato December 15 1736
- Title:
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- Berenice : Opera Composta per il Sgr G:F: Handel : Comminciato December 15 1736
- Language:
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- Italian
- Creator:
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- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
- Call number:
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- C0640 (no. 28)
- Electronic Resource
- Extent:
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- 1 volume : paper.
- Format:
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- Musical score
- Manuscript
- Description:
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- Opera in 3 acts; libretto by A. Salvi.
- English manuscript of the opera Berenice, in the hand of Handel's copyist S2, from the library of Charles Jennens, Handel's patron and librettist of Messiah, and annotated by him. The scribal full score of the opera in three acts, notated in brown ink on up to ten staves per page, scored for voices and orchestra (strings, oboes, bassoons and continuo), with figured bass throughout (and with a few additional figures added by Charles Jennens), including the overture, the arias, ariosos and recitatives, and the final Coro, and with extensive stage directions. Complete but for Berenice's aria "Avvertite mie pupille."
- Paginated: 297 pages.
- Publisher:
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- [England], 1737.
- Subject:
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- Operas
- Title sort:
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- Berenice : Opera Composta per il Sgr G:F: Handel : Comminciato December 15 1736.
- Created:
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- 1737-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1737
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/0g354g50k
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Collections:
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- Digitized Manuscripts
- James S. Hall collection of George Frideric Handel
- Music Treasures at Princeton
- Music and Performing Arts Collections at Princeton
- Librettist:
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- Salvi, Antonio, 1664-1724
- Former owner:
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- Jennens, Charles, 1700-1773
- Annotator:
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- Jennens, Charles, 1700-1773
- Composer:
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- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
- Text language:
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- Italian words.
- Location:
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- HSVM C0640 (no. 28)
- HSVM Electronic Resource
- ELF1 C0640 (no. 28)
- ELF1 Electronic Resource
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