Abstract

This presentation will feature Handel’s Let the Bright Seraphim, with a modern performance with piccolo trumpet, soprano and piano. The lecturer will then discuss the development of an informed performance through: study of original manuscripts, knowledge of original instruments, knowledge of the text, understanding of baroque phrasing, articulation and ornamentation, and musical interplay between the soprano and trumpet. The lecturer will then demonstrate excerpts from the aria played on natural trumpet (valvless reproduction of an 18th century trumpet). He will then make pedagogical recommendations on: Teaching baroque performance practice to college students, The value of the study of early instruments, Teaching a scholarly approach to performance to college students.