IDENTIFIERS
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id:	277022
accession number:	MU.MS.263.p.57

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A leaf with a march on one side and sketches for the Messiah on the other.
Holograph manuscript in ink.
Watermark: Fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows B140)
Note at the foot of p. 58: "This is a most curious & interesting Page, as it contains the first germ of two of the very finest / Compositions that handel ever wrote viz the Song "He was despised" and the "Amen" Chorus in the Messiah. / The original MS of the complete Oratorio is in ght King's Library. V[incent]. N[ovello].1830"
1.1.1 treble 1 Marche G G-2 xF c/ 4'G/''D{8DD}4DG/4.F8E{8DC'BA}/{GFGA}4F''D/
2.1.1 A He was dispised [sic.] c C-3 bBEA c 4-8-,B4.'E8D/GF-GA{6GF}8G{6FE}/8DE-F{G6AB}8AG/4F
2.2.1 S Let all the angels F C-2 bB c 4-''C'F''C/DC'BA/2B4A
2.2.2 T Let all the angels F C-4 bB c 8-'C,F'CDC,BA/4B8{B'C}{DEFD}/{GEDE}{FC}4F/
2.3 .1 S [Amen] D C-2 xFC C/ 2.'D4E/FGAE/FD2B+/BA/2.''D4D/
3.1.1 Der arme Irische Kind a G-2 c 4'A/4.''C8D{EDEF}/4E{8C'B}4A{8''CD}/4EA{8GFED}/

Contents
[1, p. 57] Marche : [for 2 trebles and bass (probably 2 oboes and continuo/bassoon), in G, HWV 418] -- [2, p. 58, line 1] "He was dispised" : [sketch, Alto melody, ca. 8 bars : HWV 56 no. 20] -- [3, p. 58, lines 2-3] "Let all the angels" [crossed out and replaced with:] "and cast away their yokes from us" [from Let us break their bonds : sketch for S & T, 3 bars : actually used for the first text, HWV 56 no. 31] -- [4. p. 58, lines 4-10] [Sketch for SATB (no text) for the opening of the Amen : HWV 56, no. 47] -- [5, p. 58, line 8] "Der arme Irische Jünge. Ballet" [melody only, probably not by Handel]
title:	Marches, oboes (2), continuo, HWV 418, G major

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/277022





CATEGORIES
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category: manuscript (music)

DATING
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creation date:	1741 - 1741
creation date earliest:	1741
creation date latest:	1741

CREATORS
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maker: Handel, George Frideric

DIMENSIONS
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value: 1 ms. score (p. 57-58) ; 23 x 29 cm.