Works. Selections (Sketches) [2 Sketches] ; [and] March [from the Ode for St Cecilia] / [George Frideric Handel]
Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Sketches and march for treble and bass clefs (keyboard)
Probably originally joined to leaf p. 61-62, q.v. The top and right hand side of both pages are heavily stained, with some show through.
Holograph manuscript in ink.
A complete transcription of the pencil sketch 1 is to be found in Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish. A catalogue of Handel's musical autographs (Oxford, 1994), p. 314.
Watermark: Fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows B140)
.1.1 treble [Sketch 1] g G-2 bBE 4'G2G/4.''D8F{ED}/{ED}2C/4.G8BbAG/
2.1.1 treble [Sketch 2] e G-2 xF c 8-''G{'B''E}/4DC--/8-{DEF}{GE}{AD}/{BG'''C''A}8-G/{6FE8D+}{DxC}8A4D8G/
3.1.1 treble March D G-2 xFC c {8.'F6F}/2A''Ct/2.D4'A/FDB{8''CD}/2'A
Contents
[p. 63, lines 1-2] [Sketch 1, in pencil : 6 bars, treble and [bass?] clefs, G minor] -- [p. 64, lines 1-2] [Sketch 2, in ink : 7 bars, treble and bass clefs, G major : the first three bars are virtually illegible, the transcription is uncertain] -- [p. 64, lines 3-9] March [for treble and bass, in D major, HWV 76, no. 5 : bass incomplete]
1 ms. (p. 63-64) ; 24 x 29 cm.
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Production date: AD 1739 : [England],[1739?]
Accession number: MU.MS.262.p.63
Primary reference Number: 276995
ALMA control 001: 994658633803606
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Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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