Ornament and the affections in the opera arias of George Frideric Handel
The performance of opera arias composed by George Frideric Handel in our modern day is complicated by the necessity of including improvised embellishments, which were a standard component of the eighteenth-century genre of opera seria. Furthermore, discussions concerning the concepts of historical a...
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University of British Columbia
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2470 |