Ballo, from Ariodante (string trio – violin, viola, cello)

Title: Ballo, from the opera Ariodante

Composer: G. F. Handel, arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Violin, Viola and Cello

Printout: 3 pages

Note: The premier production of Handel’s Ariodante was a great success, so much so that an attendee wrote that it “abounds with beauties and the strokes of a great master.” A “ballo” can be any dance sequence in an opera. This one is in the for of a gavotte.