IDENTIFIERS
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id:	276943
accession number:	MU.MS.259.p.37

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 1 December 2020
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Holograph manuscript in ink (sketch) and pencil (contrapuntal examples)
A complete transcription of the contrapuntal examples are to be found in Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish. A catalogue of Handel's musical autographs (Oxford, 1994), p. 314.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C90)
Contents:
[p. 37] [empty staves] -- [p. 38, line 1] Alternate hopes and fears : [sketch, treble clef, 4 bars : different from the melody used in Belshazzar, HWV 61 no. 40] -- [p. 38, lines 1-2, 2, 3-4 and 3-4 : Four 2-part contrapuntal examples on the same musical material, dated at the end of line 4] h [or sign for Saturn] Sep 14 / 174[?, probably 4 or 5]

1.1.1 S Alternate hopes and fears G-2 bB 3/4 6''C/{8.'A6''C}4.F6-'A/2G8-A/4''D2'B/A 
2.1.1 treble [Contrapuntal example] G-2 bF c 4-{6DEFG}{8A''FED}/{xCBAG}{F6ED}{8ExC}/4D
title:	Belshazzar. Alternate hopes and fears (Sketches)

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/276943





CATEGORIES
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category: manuscript (music)

DATING
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creation date:	1744 - 1744
creation date earliest:	1744
creation date latest:	1744

CREATORS
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maker: Handel, George Frideric

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 ms. score (p. 37-38) ; 24 x 29 cm.