Abstract
This study examines Act Three of George Frideric Handel’s 1709 Italian opera, Agrippina, in an attempt to shed light on Handel’s autograph of the piece and three early copies. Specifically, this study focuses on the concordance between the autograph and the copies in an attempt to provide information for a much-needed critical score of this piece, as well as find connections between the sources that provide clues to the origins of each copy. In order to accomplish this, an in- depth, note-by-note analysis of the third act from each of these sources was executed and the findings were recorded in a concordance table, which is attached to this thesis.\r This thesis is structured in four parts: (1) Introduction, addressing aim, background information, and an overview of the sources; (2) Narration of Comparison, discussing in detail the specific findings of the study; (3) Conclusion, what can be drawn from this study, limitations, and further\r research opportunities; (4) Concordance Table, visual outline of this study.