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HANDEL, George Frideric,
1685-1759
Crudel tiranno amor. Cantata con
stromenti. Version
for Voice and
Keyboard Instrument HWV 97b.
The Autograph Score Mus.ms. 4468, fols. 49r-54v, Preserved in the
Bavarian State Library
Munich. Facsimile and First Edition Edited by Berthold Over and the
Bavarian State Library
Munich, in Collaboration with the Editorial Staff of the Halle Handel
Edition.
[Cantata,
soprano, keyboard, HWV 97b]
 sample page
Documenta
Musicologica, II/34. Kassel, 2006.
Oblong, 4˚, iv, 12, 24 pp. Color facsimile of
the recently rediscovered autograph fair copy. This exciting find was
made in 2004 by
Berthold Over and presents a different version of the aria arranged for
solo soprano and
realized keyboard (it was originally written for solo voice and
orchestra). The three arias
and two recitatives are transposed up one step from the orchestral
version. The Munich
autograph also has been given additional ornaments including numerous
trills and slides in the
vocal part. The new source is also very instructive for questions
regarding performance
practice, as Handel did not merely reduce the musical texture of the
aria to an instrumental
upper voice, vocal part, and bass, but the left hand of the
keyboard part is often in
two voices, whether in real two-part counterpoint or in doubled
octaves. The autograph
realization departs in several respects from realizations commonly used
today, being very
full in its sonority, and sometimes both the the right and left hands
have to play multi-note
chords. The realization—in the “full-voiced accompaniment”—makes no
attempt to avoid doubled
thirds or parallel fifths and octaves. Preface in Ger/Eng, together
with practical edition.
Hardbound. $63
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