_C !1Susanna: A Program Note!2 
       
_S200  
     This newly edited version of Handel's oratorio !4Susanna!2 has been 
produced electronically, utilizing facilities developed by Walter B. 
Hewlett at the Center for  
Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities in Menlo Park, California.  
Handel's music has been fed into a computer system, part by part, from 
his autograph and other early 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 in Nos. 14, 22, 68, and 71, 
remains on-line and will become part of the Center's !4Handel Database!2.  
   
_NP  
     In relation to the autograph, which was revised for subsequent  
performances, this version of the work reflects the following changes: 
   
   
_M+50  
_L-100 
1. !4Components!2.  Material not available in other modern editions  
has been added in Nos. 14, 22, 68, and 71.   
   
   
2. !4Dynamics and instrumentation!2.  The dynamics markings in the 
autograph appear to belong to the early version of the work, while the 
"con ripieno" and "senza ripieno" indications appear to be belong to 
a later layer of the work.  Like a few text revisions in a lighter 
ink, they may in fact derive from a performance given in 1759, a   
few weeks before the death of the composer, who was then blind.  
   
   
3. !4Orchestration!2.  Handel's violins are generally divided into 
two sections.  In No. 71 a third section is added.  Trumpets also  
appear in the last large numbers of the work.  Handel does not 
call for timpani in this work, although at this date it timpani  
were frequently used in conjunction with trumpets.  The rare 
independent lines for bassoon, which generally follows the continuo  
line, serve