Handel as Orpheus : : Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas /

Handel as Orpheus : : Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas / / Ellen T. Harris.

Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments that describe the joy and pain of love. In Handel as Orpheus, the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Ellen Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty.The cantatas were writ...

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Harris, Ellen T.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on the Musical Examples
  • Prologue: “The Ways of the World”
  • 1. Code Names and Assumed Identities
  • 2. Women’s Voices/Men’s Voices
  • 3. Pastoral Lovers
  • 4. Cantata Couples and Love Triangles
  • 5. Silence and Secrecy
  • 6. Culmination of the Private
  • Epilogue: “True Representation”
  • Appendix 1: Cantata Chronology
  • Appendix 2: Texts and Translations of the Continuo Cantatas
  • Bibliographic Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Title Index of Handel’s Cantatas, Duets, and Trios
  • General Index

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