IDENTIFIERS
-----------
id:	276939
accession number:	MU.MS.259.p.21

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
----------------
object type: First draft of the recitative and uncompleted aria of the oratorio Joseph and his brethren, Part I, Scene IV, HWV 59 Anhang (9.), and a probably unrelated minuet for violin and continuo.
Two leaves probably removed from the holograph (R.M. 20.e.10) during course of composition.
Holograph manuscript in ink.
With scribbled annotations in right hand margin of page 21:  "comme/ je ne", "demn" "Sans" "aucun" : see also pp. 66 and 79.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C80)

Contents:
[p. 21] Whence this unwonted ardour in my breast : [recitative for S (Asenath), bc] -- [p. 21-23] I feel a spreading flame : [aria for S, vl1, vl2, vla, b] -- [p. 24] Menuet [for treble (violin) and bass in D major, HWV 420 : uncompleted first draft of melody written on lines 1 & 3, with complete minuet on lines 5-8]

1.1.1 S (Asenath) Whence this unwonted ardour in my breast C-1 c 4-8-''CCCFC/'AA''C'F4bB-/ 
1.2.1 vl1 I feel a spreading flame bB G-2 b BE c 8-{''FBA}4B+8({6BDE};3)({6FEF};3)/4'B+8({6B''DC};3)({6'B''CD};3) 
1.2.2 S (Asenath) I feel a spreading flame Bb C-1 bBE c =8/8-'FBF2B+/{6B''DCD}8'B''F4D+8({6DFE};3)({6DEF};3)/ 
2.1.1 treble Menuet D G-2 xFC 3/4 2''A{8FD}/4'A{8AAAA}/4F{8ED}4''D/2.'A/
title:	Joseph and his brethren. I feel a spreading flame

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/276939





CATEGORIES
------
category: manuscript (music)

DATING
------
creation date:	1743 - 1743
creation date earliest:	1743
creation date latest:	1743

CREATORS
--------
maker: Handel, George Frideric

DIMENSIONS
----------
value: 1 ms. score (p. 21-24) ; 24 x 29 cm.