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 wri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
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