rather than to the music. All 112 known watermarks are shown and traced.
More than 8,700 folios survive, most of them in the British Library and the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.- Burrows, Donald. “Sources, Resources and Handel Studies.” In Tercentenary
(#950), 19–42.
Describes the state of the art in “matters of source philology and source inter-
pretation.” “We need all of Handel’s music, in the right keys, in the right order,
and with the right words,” or “any analysis will yield false results.” Discusses
Baselt’s catalogue (#941), watermark research, the study of copyists, and the
contents of manuscripts in Oxford and Hamburg. With 53 notes, identifying
the relevant literature. - Smith, William C. Handel: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Early Editions.2nd
ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1970. 378p. ML134 .H356.
First edition, 1960. Describes all printings during Handel’s lifetime and those
of special significance into the early 19th century. Information given includes
text sources, singers named, and citations to advertisements. Expansive index.
947.Handel Sources: Material for the Study of Handel’s Borrowing. Ed. John H.
Roberts. New York: Garland, 1986. 9v. M1500 .S816 L88.
Nineteen sources: operas by Keiser, Gasparini, Giovanni Porta, C. H. Graun,
Antonio Lotti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Bononcini, and Steffani are presented in
facsimiles of contemporary manuscripts and printed editions. The series does
not duplicate major sources that have already appeared in modern editions.
Extensive commentaries by the editor cover the historical background and dis-
cuss the actual borrowing that occurred. On the topic of Handel’s borrowing,
see Buelow (#976) and Roberts (#977).
See also #955.
Conferences
948.Handel Collections and Their History. Ed. Terence Best. New York: Oxford
U.P., 1993. xvii, 252p. ISBN 0-1981-6299-5. ML410 .H13 H285.
Proceedings from a conference held at King’s College, London, 24–26 Novem-
ber 1990. Various scholars describe the collections of Hamburg, Malmesbury,
Aylesford, Shaftesbury, Barrett Lennard, Chandos, Shaw-Hellier, Hall, and
Santini. Also essays on the music paper used by Handel and his copyists in
Italy and on early Handel editions. Indexed.
949.Händel auf dem Theater: Bericht über die Symposien der Internationalen
Händel-Akademie, Karlsruhe, 1986 und 1987.Ed. Hans Joachim Marx.
Laaber: Laaber, 1988. 225p. ISBN 3-8900-7146-5. ML410 .H13 H258.
A collection of 22 papers, dealing with such production topics as staging in
Handel’s time, contemporary staging, the castrato, and the performance differ-
entiae of opera and oratorio.186 Opera