handel

This thesis aims to examine George Frideric Handel’s La Lucrezia through various lenses of understanding, first by tracing the legend of Lucretia from the first surviving Roman account until Handel’s retelling of the story in the 18th century. The accounts of Livy, Ovid, and oth…

This study explores the possibilities for violoncellists to embellish the Italian baroque aria bass. The invention of the wire-wound bottom string on the violoncello in Italy around the 1660s forged two diverging paths on the use of this novel instrument in aria accompaniment: 1…