IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 276926 accession number: MU.MS.258.p.33 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 1 December 2020 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Probably a rejected page from the score of L'Allegro, il Penseroso et il Moderato (February 1740), reused for an alternative recitative for the November 1740 performance of Imeneo. Titles from first lines Holograph manuscript in ink. Watermark: Fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows B150) Contents: [1, p. 33-34, lines 6-10] These pleasure melancholy give : [fragment from the chorus (SATB b, with incomplete text, and lacking orchestration) from L'Allegro (HWV 55, no. 33), continuing from the holograph score, GB Lbl R.M.20.d.5, f. 42] -- [2, p. 34, lines 1-2] Dal di ch'io la perdei : [recitative for Tirinto (S, b) from Imeneo (HWV 41, Atto I Scena I, Recitativo C) ending with a cue for "La mia bella" (HWV 41, no. 1)] 1.2.1 S (Tirinto) Dal di ch'io la perdei C-1 c 4-8-'BBxFFG/4A title: Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. These pleasure melancholy give LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/276926 CATEGORIES ------ category: manuscript (music) DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1740 CREATORS -------- maker: Handel, George Frideric DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 score (p. 33-34) ; 23 x 30 cm.