Concert & Symposium

Marking the completion of Thérèse de Goede's PhD thesis

‘Del sonare sopra ’l basso’
Practice and theory of basso continuo accompaniment in the seventeenth century

March 26 and 27, 2014

Sweelinckzaal, Conservatorium van Amsterdam

Programme

Wednesday, March 26

19.30-22.00 Sweelinckzaal
Concert by Jonatan Alvarado, tenor; Maarten Koningsberger, bariton; Lucía Caihuela, soprano; Sophia Patsi, mezzo-soprano; Ryuko Reid, violin; Christine Verdon, violin; Isa Juárez, viola; Roar Blasmo, cello; Zaynab Martin, violone; Jed Wentz, traverso; Thérèse de Goede, basso continuo
Claudio Monteverdi - Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624); Tarquinio Merula - ‘Su la cetra amorosa’ (c. 1623); Marc-Antoine Charpentier, ‘Stances du Cid’ (c. 1681); Alessandro Scarlatti - recitative and aria ‘Ti basti’ (c. 1690); Georg Friedrich Händel - Sonata in G major, Op. 1, Nr. 5 (1732) Adagio, Allegro; Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata Amore traditore

Thursday, March 27

09.00-9.30
Coffee & tea

09.30-09.45
Welcome (Michiel Schuijer)

09.45-10.15 
Figuring out Bach
John Butt (University of Glasgow)

10.15-11.00 
'Sonare sopra 'l basso': How new was this invention?
Augusta Campagne (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien)

11.00-11.30 
Coffee & Tea

11.30-12.15
‘Behold, I tell you a mystery’: How Handel directed his oratorios
Peter Holman (University of Leeds)

12.15-13.00
Observations and thoughts about historic ways of teaching and learning counterpoint
Markus Jans (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis)

13.00-14.30
Lunchtime

14.30-16.30 
Workshop: Improvisation in Frescobaldi’s Canzonas for bass instrument and basso continuo
Thérèse de Goede (Conservatorium van Amsterdam)

16.30-17.00
Coffee & Tea

17.00-18.00 
Round table (Jed Wentz, referent; Michiel Schuijer, chair)

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