IDENTIFIERS
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id:	300297
accession number:	MU.MS.166.E

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Wednesday 7 July 2021
updated:	Wednesday 7 July 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Language: English
Secular cantata for solo voice (S) and continuo.
Manuscript in ink, either holograph or Miss Dacre.
First line: 'Aethereal race, inhabitants of air'.
Caption title.
Paper: 12 staves (219x309mm); watermark: cross in circle (incomplete) ; countermark: "?????" over "????????" (very feint letters)
Former classmark: 32.G.27.
Dated at the end: 'Miss Dacre scripsit [?] 24 September 1778 Paris' - note at end.
Probably received unbound. Bound as tract 5 in a miscellany, probably about 1890, and rebound separately in quarter rmorocco, marbled paper sides and vellum tips by the Cockerell Bindery, DC 6540, October 1979.
1.1.1 S Recitative Largo Aethereal Race Inhabitants of Air G-2 xFCGDAE c 2-4-'F/FF2F/2-4-F/FFF''D/2.C
object type: 1 ms. score (4 leaves, bound) ; 24 x 32 cm.
title:	Ode on Aeolus's Harp / Composed by Mr. J. Burton ; Words by Mr. Mason

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Probably the Founder's bequest, possibly from the composer in 1782.


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/300297

PEOPLE
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Darce, Miss




CATEGORIES
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category: printed music

DATING
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creation date:	1778 - 1778
creation date earliest:	1778
creation date latest:	1778

CREATORS
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maker: Burton, John (Composer)
maker: Mason, Rev. William
maker: Cockerell Bindery