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Harpsichord improvisation
NEIL COLEMAN
Handel House
IMPROVISATION is something one normally associated with jazz musicians.
Scores across the jazz canon are littered with bars simply marked with just a number 12, instructing the musician to play with the music for the required period.
But it had an equally important role in early classical music.
The recitatives of operas were frequently the responsibility of a harpsichordist and at the Handel House Museum on Tuesday keyboardist Neil Coleman demonstrates how improvisation was used in the time of Handel and includes works by Handel.
It all takes place in the setting of the Handel House Museum, which valiantly strives to recreate Handel’s old Mayfair house.
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