Belshazzar. Alternate hopes and fears (Sketches) Alternate hopes and fears : [sketch] ; [Four two-part contrapuntal examples] / [George Frideric Handel]
Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Holograph manuscript in ink (sketch) and pencil (contrapuntal examples)
A complete transcription of the contrapuntal examples are to be found in Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish. A catalogue of Handel's musical autographs (Oxford, 1994), p. 314.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C90)
Contents:
[p. 37] [empty staves] -- [p. 38, line 1] Alternate hopes and fears : [sketch, treble clef, 4 bars : different from the melody used in Belshazzar, HWV 61 no. 40] -- [p. 38, lines 1-2, 2, 3-4 and 3-4 : Four 2-part contrapuntal examples on the same musical material, dated at the end of line 4] h [or sign for Saturn] Sep 14 / 174[?, probably 4 or 5]
1.1.1 S Alternate hopes and fears G-2 bB 3/4 6''C/{8.'A6''C}4.F6-'A/2G8-A/4''D2'B/A
2.1.1 treble [Contrapuntal example] G-2 bF c 4-{6DEFG}{8A''FED}/{xCBAG}{F6ED}{8ExC}/4D
1 ms. score (p. 37-38) ; 24 x 29 cm.
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Production date: AD 1744 : [England],[1744]
Accession number: MU.MS.259.p.37
Primary reference Number: 276943
ALMA control 001: 994689343803606
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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