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Oratorio

Ornamenting Handel’s Messiah

Arts, Culture & Media

In Handel’s day written music offered singers and players of instruments a great deal of freedom to ornament the melodic line as they wished. We asked the soprano Julianne Baird about adding her own notes to a masterpiece.

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