IDENTIFIERS
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id:	277019
accession number:	MU.MS.263.p.51

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Leaf of skteches and drafts for works composed in 1734.
Holograph manuscript in ink; the word &quot;Bassons&quot; added by J.C. Smith.
Watermark: &quot;LVG&quot; below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: &quot;IV&quot; (Burrows C30)
1.1.1 treble Rondeau G G-2 xF 3/8 8-{&#039;BB}/{&#039;&#039;GGG}/{F6FEFG}/{ExDEGFE}/{8xD&#039;BB}/
2.1.1 treble Rondeau G G-2 xF 3/8 8-{&#039;B&#039;&#039;C}/{&#039;B6&#039;&#039;ExD8E}/C4&#039;B/{8A6GFGA}/{8FB&#039;&#039;C}
3.1.1 vl1 [Musette] Bb G-2 bBE 3/4 4&#039;&#039;B/2A4G/2F4E/DEC/D&#039;FB/2A4G/2F4E/
4.1.1 ob1 [Untitled movement] d G-2 bB c/ 8&#039;&#039;F/4&#039;A{8.B3AB}{8&#039;&#039;C6&#039;AB}{8&#039;&#039;CD}/{C6&#039;BA}{8B6AG}{8A6GA}{8F&#039;&#039;C}/
5.1.1 ob [Sketch 6] F G-2 8&#039;&#039;C/{&#039;A&#039;&#039;C&#039;G&#039;&#039;C&#039;&#039;}{&#039;A&#039;&#039;C&#039;B&#039;&#039;C&#039;&#039;}/{&#039;A&#039;&#039;C&#039;G&#039;&#039;C&#039;&#039;}{&#039;A&#039;&#039;C&#039;B&#039;&#039;C&#039;&#039;}/

Contents
[1. p. 51, lines 1-4] Rondeau : [treble and bass (not filled in) in G major, 17 bars uncompleted : probably a first version of the following] -- [2, p. 51 lines 3-9] Rondeau : [treble and bass (only partially filled in) in G major, 50 bars : draft for Ariodante, HWV 33 no. 38] -- [3. p. 52, lines 1-4 &amp; 6] [Musette in B♭ major for string orchestra : 15 bars of vl1 (line 1) and clefs only for vl1, vla and b : used in Il pastor fido, HWV 8c, no. 23] -- [4, p. 52, lines 2-4, 5-6, 10] [Untitled movement in D minor for 2 &quot;Hautb[oys]&quot; and &quot;Bassons&quot; : 12 bars, incomplete] -- [5, p. 52, lines 7-8] [Sketch : 16 bars, treble, F major : possibly an insert for a violin part for an unidentified piece]
title:	Selections (Musical 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/277019


CATEGORIES
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category: manuscript (music)

DATING
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creation date:	1734 - 1734
creation date earliest:	1734
creation date latest:	1734

CREATORS
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maker: Handel, George Frideric

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 ms. (p. 51-52) ; 23 x 29 cm.