Continuo Realization in Handel's Vocal Music (Studies in music) - Hardcover

Rogers, Patrick J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0835718751 ISBN 13: 9780835718752

Publisher: University of Rochester Press, 1989

Synopsis

This pioneering study examines aspects of figured bass notation and continuo realization in the High Baroque, especially with respect to the operas and oratorios of G. F. Handel. Contemporary treatises, Handel's manuscripts, original performance material,Part one is an overview of figured bass in Handel source materials: autograph manuscripts, performing scores, original keyboard parts, 18th century scribal copies, and early editions. Part two treats in depth continuo realization problems that are often oThe author attempts to show that continuo figuring can serve different functions depending on context. Much of the figuring that comes down to us in secondary sources may derive from the composer, or it may reflect valid contemporary practice. Modern editAppendices include brief examples of continuo realization by Handel.

Patrick J. Rogers is an active keyboard player and former Fulbright Scholar who studied Handel under Theodor Göllner, Roland Jackson, Terence Best, and the late J. Merrill Knapp.

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Review

A major contribution to the study of Handel's music (which) illuminates an important area of performance practice...(written) with the force of one who knows the music, recent trends in performance, the sources and the treatises well. --THE AMERICAN ORGANThorough and well-written . . . a study (of) depth. clarity, and elegance. . . --AMERICAN HANDEL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER (Nicolas McGegan)

Cultivates a hitherto untilled field and offers keenly thought-provoking interpretations. --HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE (Lowell Lindgren)

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0835718751
• ISBN 13: 9780835718752
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272