HANDEL REFERENCE DATABASE

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(November 2011 count: 3,550 items / 670,637 words)

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Individual titles

1712–34	“Colman Opera Register” (British Library, Add. Ms. 11258, ff. 18^v–32^r)
1722	Daniel Prat, Ode to Mr. Handel, on his Playing on the Organ, 1722 (repr., London, 1781)
1724	An Epistle to Mr. Handel, upon his Operas of Flavius and Julius Caesar (London, 1724)
1724	The Session of Musicians (London, 1724)
1726–31	“The Academy of Vocal Music” (British Library, Add. Ms. 11732)
1727	The Contre temps (London, 1727)
1732	[?Aaron Hill], See and Seem Blind: Or, A Critical Dissertation on the Publick Diversions (London, 1732)
1733	[Aaron Hill], “An ODE, on Occasion of Mr. HANDEL’s Great Te Deum”
1733	Polymnia: Or, The Charms of Musick (London, 1733)
1733	Do you know what you are about? Or, A Protestant alarm to Great Britain (London, 1733)
1734	Harmony in an Uproar (London, 1734)
1739	Advice to Mr. Handel: Which may serve as an Epilogue to Israel in Egypt ([London, 1739])
1745	An Ode to Mr. Handel (London, 1745)
1746	Orpheus and Hecate. An Ode. Inscribed to the Patroness of the Italian Opera (London, 1746)
1759	A Fair Enquiry into the State of Operas in England (London, [1759])
1760	John Langhorne, The Tears of Music. A Poem, to the Memory of M^r. Handel (London, 1760)
1760	[John Mainwaring], Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel (London, 1760)
1760	“Shaftesbury’s Memoirs of Handel,” Public Record Office 30/24/28/84
1770	Charles Burney, The Present State of Music in France and Italy (London, 1771)
1772	Charles Burney, The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces (London, 1775)
1776	John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (London, 1776)
1784	[Thomas Maurice], Ode sacred to the genius of Handel (London, [1784])
1799	[William Coxe], Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel and John Christopher Smith (London, 1799)
1802–28	The John Marsh Diaries (Huntington Library, HM 54457, vols. 23–37)

External links

1742	Horatio Townsend, An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin (Dublin, 1852)
1770	Charles Burney, The Present State of Music in France and Italy (2nd corrected edn; transcr. SECM)
1776	John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (1875 edn)
1786	John Newton, Messiah. Fifty Expository Discourses, on the Series of Scriptural Passages, which form the Subject of the celebrated Oratorio of Handel (London, 1786)
1765–1801	Brian Robins, ed., The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752–1828) (Stuyvesant, NJ, 1998)
1857	Victor Schoelcher, The Life of Handel (London, 1857)
1858–67	Friedrich Chrysander, G. F. Händel, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1858, 1860, 1867)

Handel Complete Works (Chrysander edition)

General music links

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