IDENTIFIERS
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id:	276895
accession number:	MU.MS.256.p.7

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Air in G based on the chorus in Acis and Galatea (HWV 49a, no. 1)
For keyboard (harpsichord or organ?)
Title probably added by Handel.
Holograph manuscript in ink.
"This is evidently the first thought for the Chorus "O the pleasures / of the plains" which Handel afterwards transposed into the  / key of B flat -- & amplified into a most elaborate & / masterly piece of Counterpoint" -- pencil note in later hand.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis in crowned shield ; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C*70)
1.1.1 hpcd Andante allegro G xF c {8''GDEC}{'BG}4-/{8GDEC}{,B'G}{6GABG}/
title:	Airs, harpsichord, HWV 474, G major

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/276895





CATEGORIES
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category: manuscript (music)

DATING
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creation date:	1736 - 1736
creation date earliest:	1736
creation date latest:	1736

CREATORS
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maker: Handel, George Frideric

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 ms. score (p. 7) ; 23 x 29 cm.