IDENTIFIERS
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id:	276948
accession number:	MU.MS.259.p.56

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Harp part for the aria "Hark, hark, hark, he strikes the golden lyre" from Alexander Balus, HWV 65 no. 4.
Title from first line.
The figure "3" to indicate the number of bars rest at the beginning (above the 2-breve rest) is in pencil, and in a different hand.
At the top of page 56 is  written "Alexander Balus" in pencil in a later hand, erased (off print on p. 57 is stronger).
Page 55 is of empty staves.
Holograph manuscript in ink.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C140)
1.1.1 harp Andante Hark, he strikes the golden lyre A F-4 xFCG c 8-/=3/2-4-8''D/{G6.D3'B}{6.''C3'A6.''A3G}4Ft6-{D6.G3D}/
title:	Alexander Balus. Hark, he strikes the golden lyre

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/276948





CATEGORIES
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category: manuscript (music)

DATING
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creation date:	1747 - 1747
creation date earliest:	1747
creation date latest:	1747

CREATORS
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maker: Handel, George Frideric

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 ms. part (p. 56-58) ; 29 cm.