Dispatches from 808

Submission by Janey

Musicological Oh Snap! du jour:
Regarding a cantata spuriously attributed to Handel

The bass line, which sketches out the most obvious harmonies, is composed almost entirely of repeated half notes, and the outer accompanying parts rely to an unbelievable degree on chains of sequences...All in all, it would seem most charitable not to seek further for the composer.

John Mayo, "Handel's Italian Cantatas" (PhD Diss, 1977)

Dispatches from 808

Submission by Janey

Musicological Oh Snap! du Jour:
Regarding Francesco Maria de' Medici

His marriage was grotesquely unfruitful and therefore absolutely appropriate to the catastrophic atmosphere in which it took place.