IDENTIFIERS
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id:	278747
accession number:	MU.388.C

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 15 December 2020
updated:	Tuesday 16 February 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Italian
Contains the overture, arias (with the addition of "Scorta rea di cieco Amore" HWV 7a Anhang), duets and final chorus. The March and Battaglia in Act 3 and all recitatives are omitted.
Accompaniment with figured bass and up to 3 additional lines of accompaniment throughout, some instrumentation is omitted.
Libretto by Giacomo Rossi.
HWV 7a.
"A table of songs" -- preliminary page [3], with bookseller's note at the foot of the page: "Note there are reprinted the opera's of Hydaspes ... Roseamond ..."
First performed on 24 February 1711 at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.
Singers named in caption titles of the individual arias: Sigra. Boschi (that is, F. Vanini) (also called Signra. Boscchi), Sigra. Isabella (Girardeau), Sigr. Nicolini (Grimaldi), Signr. Valentini (Valentino Urbani), Sigr. Boschi (also called Signr. Boscchi), Sigra. Piloti (also called Signra. Pilotti), and Sigr. Cassani.
Italian words.
Staff notation.
Founder's bequest, 1816. Inscribed on page 1: "R. Fitzwilliam, 1767". 
Received stab stitched in paper covers. Bound in quarter Morocco leather Cockerell paper sides and vellum tips by the Cockerell Bindery in March, 1981. 
Lacking title page.
Former shelf numbers: 31.F.21 & x.2.61(c
title:	MU.388.C

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/278747





CATEGORIES
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category: printed music

DATING
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creation date:	1711 - 1711
creation date earliest:	1711
creation date latest:	1711

CREATORS
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maker: Handel, George Frideric
maker: Tasso, Torquato,
maker: Rossi, Giacomo,

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 condensed score ([4], 67 pages) ; 37 cm