Description: 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.
Review Quotes: 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.--William Gudger "THE AMERICAN ORGANIST"