IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 276959 accession number: MU.MS.259.p.83 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 1 December 2020 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Editorial title. The sketches may be derived from the music of other composers. Two leaves removed from the holograph score during composition, and replaced by GB Lbl R.M. 20.e.9 leaves 86-87. Holograph manuscript in ink. Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C160) Contents: [p. 83, lines 1-8] [O spare your daughter] : [SATB, b : last 5 bars, continung from GB Lbl R.M. 20.e.9, f. 85 : lacking orchestration : HWV 70, no. 25] -- [p. 83, lines 9-10] [Such news flies swift] : [recitative : last 3 bars, continung from GB Lbl R.M. 20.e.9, f. 85] -- [p. 84-85] For joys so vast : [uncompleted aria (13 bars) for S (Iphis), vl1, vl2, vla, b : HWV 70 Anhang (26./27.)] -- [p. 85, lines 1-6] [Sketch 1] [For treble, b : in two sections, 9 bars ending in B minor, and 14 bars ending in F minor : related to "Doubtful fear and reverend awe" in Jephtha, HWV 70 no. 35] -- [p. 86, line 1] [Sketch 2] : [2-part fugal entry : F major, 4 bars] -- [p. 86, lines 2] [Sketch 3a] [2-part fugal entry : F major, 6 bars] -- [p. 86, lines 3-8] [Sketch 3b] [4-part fugal exposition : F major, 18 bars] -- [p. 86, line 4] [Sketch 3c (parallel with the beginning of Sketch 3b)] [Alternative theme : F major, 3 bars] -- [p. 86, lines 9-10] [Sketch 4] And thy mercies : [S, b : D minor, 14 bars] : [possibly an unused sketch for "And thy mercies still endure" in the chorus "Theme sublime" in Jephtha, HWV 70 no. 39] 1.1.1 S Largo For joys so vast b C-1 xFCG c 4-8-'B{8.B6''C8D}{6C'B}/4B8-''D6D8.'F8FG/4A8-A{8.A6B8n''C}{6'BA}/ 2.1.1 treble [Sketch 1] b G-2 xFC c 4'FF2''D+/4D{8C'B}4xAB/{8''CDEF}{E'F}4''D/ 3.1.1 S [Sketch 2] F C-1 bB c 4-8-''C{6'A''C'FA}{GBEG}/{FADB}{ECF,A} 4.1.1 S [Sketch 3a] d C-1 bB c 4.'A8A4''D8-'E/{FAGB}4A8-A/{nB''DxCE}{DFEG}/ 5.1.1 S [Sketch 3b] d C-1 bB c 4.'A8A4''D8-'E/{FAGB}4A8-A/{nB''DxCE}4D8-'bB/{ABAB} 6.1.1 S [Sketch 3c] d C-1 bB c 4.'A8A4''D8-'E/{FxFGxG}4A8-A/{BnB''CxC}4D8-'bB/ 7.1.1 S [Sketch 4] And all thy mercies d C-1 bB 3/4 2'A4A/BAG/FED/xC,A'F/E,A'D/ title: Jephtha. Selections (Sketches) 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/276959 CATEGORIES ------ category: manuscript (music) DATING ------ creation date: 1751 - 1751 creation date earliest: 1751 creation date latest: 1751 CREATORS -------- maker: Handel, George Frideric DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 ms. score (p. 83-86) ; 24 x 29 cm.