Baroque Music: Dieter Gutknecht Article

Gutknecht, Dieter. “Performance Practice of Recitativo secco in the first half of the 18th Century…particularly in Handel’s Operas.” EM 23/3 (2005):473-93. This particular article deals exclusively with the options in performing cadences after a singer has completed a line of recitativo secco in (mostly) Handel’s operas. Performance Practice of recitativo secco in the first half of the 18th century can entail many things, however...