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_C A Note on This Edition 
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   This newly edited version of Handel's oratorio !39|Susanna!37| has been 
produced electronically, utilizing facilities developed by Walter B. Hewlett
at the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford 
University.  Handel's music has been fed into a computer system, part by 
part, from his autograph (British Library RM 20.f.8) and other sources.  The
text, which is anonymous, has been adapted from a recently discovered copy 
of the 1749 libretto at the University of Texas, Austin.  After extensive 
proofreading and proofhearing, final copy was approved by the conductor, 
Nicholas McGegan, for the creation of the performing score and parts.  This 
version of the work, in which material not available in other modern 
editions has been added, remains on-line and will become part of the 
Center's !39|Handel Database.!37| 

   The editors wish to thank Anthony Hicks of London for editorial 
advice; the British Library for consultation of Handel's autograph; the 
staff of the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas in 
Austin for their diligence in locating two hitherto unreported copies 
of the 1749 libretto; Walter B. Hewlett for his inspired and tireless 
efforts in facilitating the creation of the electronic score and 
parts; Edmund Correia Jr., Frances Bennion, and Stephen Rasmussen of 
the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities for their 
assiduous efforts in producing the edition; and Carol Handelmann, David 
Bowes, Elizabeth Blumenstock, and Elizabeth LeGuin of Philharmonia 
Baroque Orchestra as well as Philip Brett of the University of California 
at Berkeley for their cooperation.  


   This edition reflects the following decisions: 


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1. !39|Components.!37|  Material not available in other modern editions 
but included in the libretto has been added in Nos. 14, 22, 68, and 
71.  No. 14 is indicated as a recitative in the 1749 libretto.  It 
is set as a recitative and an aria in the autograph; we have used 
the aria version.  Nos. 68 and 71 recapture from the autograph extended 
passages absent in other modern editions.  

   Material following Nos. 21 and 63 in the autograph (two choruses 
and one recitative) but absent from this libretto have been omitted.  


2. !39|Dynamics and instrumentation.!37|  The dynamics markings in the 
autograph appear to belong to the early (1749) version of the work.  The 
\0"con ripieno" and \0"senza ripieno" indications appear to have been 
generated by the accommodation of additional players hired for   
!39|Solomon!37|.  No use of a reduced ensemble is believed to have been 
intended for !39|Susanna!37|.  A few such indications added by    
Mr. McGegan are indicated in italics.  


3. !39|Articulation.!37|  Handel's articulation signs are merely
suggestive.  Numerous slurs and other articulation marks that can be 
inferred from his incipits have been added.  Some trills, modelled   
on those of the composer, have been added.  The use of fermatas 
has been made uniform.  Double-bar usage conforms to Handel's practice.  


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4. !39|Correction and interpretation of pitch and rhythm.!37|  A
limited number of apparently wrong pitches have been tacitly 
corrected.  Some dotted notes in cadences have been double 
dotted.  A few errors in rhythmic figuration that originate           
with Handel have been corrected.  Bars 34-36 in the continuo of 
No. 27, for example, are rhythmically irregular in earlier
editions but should, we believe, be regularized.  



_C !44|Source Discrepancies!37| 

_M-160 
   The following table indicates discrepancies between the 1749 
libretto, Handel's autograph, and the editions of Chrysander and 
Rose (HHA = !39|Hallische Handelausgabe!37|).  The following 
symbols have been used: 

_T2,15,350,19,430 
              *   The source that was chosen as a model for the current edition.
              +   Following the movement identified.  
              (1) Original text of Handel's autograph.  
              (2) Emended text of Handel's autograph.  
              --  Not present in this source/edition.  



Many tacit corrections to word divisions and punctuation have been 
made.