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

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

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)